Today, embedded systems are so common that you’d have a hard time looking in any direction without seeing a device which contains one – if you know where to look. Lately, a movement toward embedded as ...

Microsoft has lined up high-profile partners for an upcoming version of its Windows software designed to be stuffed into all sorts of nontraditional computing gadgets. The Redmond, Wash., software ...

Embedded systems use dedicated computers or microprocessors to control or monitor a process. A simple example is when an application program inserts embedded printing commands into a document to ...

The company has lined up high-profile partners for an upcoming version of its Windows software designed to be stuffed into all sorts of nontraditional computing gadgets. Stephen Shankland worked at ...

The software company is shipping to approximately 100 partners and customers the first beta version of its Whistler Embedded software. Mary Jo Foley has covered the tech industry for 30 years for a ...

An operating system installed in myriad handheld devices, appliances, equipment and vehicles. The criterion that makes an OS an embedded OS is that it is installed into the firmware of the device ...

A Vista-based successor to Microsoft's Windows XP-based Embedded system, used for retail and gaming systems, will include Vista features such as disk encryption and anti-malware — but its core will be ...

Wind River Systems, the leading provider of a realtime embedded operating system known as VxWorks, for example, unveiled this week its first reselling agreement with semiconductor distributor the ...

Microsoft on Tuesday released a test preview of its Windows 7-based OS for embedded devices. A Community Technology Preview for Windows Embedded Standard 2011, formerly code-named “Quebec,” is now ...

Is Microsoft’s mobile operating system strategy confusing anyone yet? First Microsoft was touting the benefits of running a full-blown version of Windows 7 on devices like the HP Slate—a strategy that ...

The wraps are off Microsoft's Windows 2000 embedded operating system (OS). Whistler Embedded's modular design lets developers use Windows 2000's advanced features in embedded designs that now rely on ...