14 DAY TRIAL // Microsoft is not only hard at work building the embedded and componentized version of Windows 7, but also laboring to push forward the predecessor of codename Quebec. In this regard, the Redmond company announced at the start of this month that new features had been made available for download for Windows Embedded Standard 2009. Customers currently running the embedded version of Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) can now download and install new features from the Windows Embedded Standard 2009 database.
“The ISO containing these features can be downloaded from the ECE site here. If you want early access to more out-of-band features as they become available then sign up for an MSDN Embedded subscription, where you can test out new features for Windows Embedded Standard 2009,” Luca Amapane, a program manager in the Embedded Windows team, revealed.
Recently, Microsoft announced a key change in the evolution of the project, which debuted under the codename Quebec. Essentially, in order to illustrate the intimate connection between Windows 7 and Windows Embedded vNext, the software giant has relabeled Windows Embedded Standard 2011 as Windows Embedded Standard 7. A Release Candidate of Windows Embedded Standard 7 is currently available for download from Microsoft Connect.
Amapane enumerated some of the new features offered for Windows Embedded Standard 2009:
“- Windows Installer Service 4.5 for Windows Embedded Standard 2009.
“- Silverlight 3.0 for Windows Embedded Standard 2009 - This is a setup component that includes all dependencies for installing Silverlight 3.0 and includes the Silverlight 3.0 executable file to be installed during or post-FBA.
“- Remote Desktop Connection 7 for Windows Embedded Standard 2009 - The Remote Desktop Connection 7.0 client update enables the new Remote Desktop Services features that are introduced in Windows 7 and in Windows Server 2008 R2 on devices running Windows Embedded Standard 2009.
“- Remote Desktop Connection 7 MUI pack for Windows Embedded Standard 2009.”