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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Embedded system developers have a wide range of operating systems available to them today. Of course, the most straightforward operating system is to have no operating system! However, many systems ...

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 ...

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 major update to a popular hardware-agnostic embedded Linux platform brings enhanced cybersecurity, long-term support, and seamless updates, helping OEMs deliver smarter, future-proof devices while ...

Microsoft Corp. last week released an upgrade of the embedded version of Windows, making 100% of the source code in the software’s kernel available to developers and packaging the latest release of ...

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 ...