14 DAY TRIAL // Microsoft is no stranger to building websites featuring applications compatible with its various Windows operating systems. The Windows Embedded Standard 7 Compatible Applications online hub has been overhauled, with the redesign wrapped up just last week. Following the re-launch, customers leveraging the embedded flavor of Windows 7 will be able to take advantage of a revamped website, which now features not only a fresh design, but also updated resources from new documentation to new and refactored templates, according to J.T. Kimbell, Program Manager on the Windows Embedded team.
“Gone is the static HTML view we had in the past; replacing it is a dynamic site that’s searchable and sortable and includes expanding rows to more easily view only the information on the templates that you want and need,” Kimbell stressed.
Microsoft fixed and refactored a number of templates. The software giant focused on providing the best quality possible resources to developers, and in this sense worked to enhance the efficiency of the templates. The company even enumerated the templates which were tweaked, including: Adobe Reader 9; Citrix Offline Plug-in 6; Citrix XenApp Plugin for Hosted Apps 11; Microsoft Office Excel Viewer 2007; Microsoft Office PowerPoint Viewer 2007; Microsoft Office Visio Viewer 2007; Microsoft Office Word Viewer 2007; Microsoft Silverlight 4; Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007; Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007; Symantec Endpoint Protection 11; Windows Live Mail; Windows Live Messenger; Windows Live Photo Gallery; Windows Live Toolbar; XNA 3.1 (64bit only).
“By refactoring many of the templates, we removed unnecessary packages that had little to no impact on the application’s functionality and decreased the footprint needed for the application to install and run,” Kimbell added. “We also replaced some old templates with new, by removing the JRE 1.5 template and replacing it with 1.6, and removing the old eTrust Antivirus template and putting CA Antivirus 8.1 in its place.”
32-bit (x86) Windows Embedded Standard 7 RTM, 64-bit (x64) Windows Embedded Standard 7 RTM and the Windows Embedded Standard 7 Evaluation toolkit are available for download here.
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