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Posted By Werner ReussWindows Embedded Business Lead for Germany and Eastern Europe
Cloud computing and big data are two of the hottest trends in the enterprise. The question on most CIOs mind is, “How can my team securely connect all of the end points (PCs, phones, edge devices) and take advantage of the resulting data?”
This was the issue discussed during the Cloud Developer Conference 2013 here in Darmstadt, Germany, earlier this month. Over the two days around 600 attendees --mainly coming from an traditional IT background, and typically being a IT decision makers like CIOs--joined us to get the latest information on big data, cloud and also on the intelligent systems approach by Microsoft.
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Posted By Maura van der LindenProgramming Writer
It can be a challenge to learn a new product--or even a new version of a product you’re already familiar with--and the content team for Windows Embedded products is always looking for ways to make that process more streamlined and faster.
In response to customer requests for more end-to-end instructional content, the Windows Embedded Standard 8 help content contains over a dozen lab exercises that are designed to enable you to learn more about Standard 8 as you perform one or more tasks.
These lab exercises are a new addition to our help content and our documentation team worked hard to cover a range of basic and advanced topics. The lab exercises are ordered, so that you have the option of completing more basic exercises before moving on to more advanced ones. If there are dependencies on other lab exercises, those are clearly stated in the prerequisites section.
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Posted By Alan LeeWindows Embedded Business Lead for Taiwan
These days, people are not just using the Internet for “people” communications; increasingly, the Internet is used to power “things” for business. The hot new trend in intelligent systems is IoT, the Internet of Things. In Taiwan, as elsewhere, we are seeing more and more connected devices, generating and transmitting huge amounts of data, creating the new question of how to use this “big data;” how to make it valuable and useful.
A very typical industry we are seeing this transformation in Taiwan is retail stores. From cash registers, to point of sales and point of service devices, to cloud services, retailers are using end-to-end systems to collect sales data, and then analyze the data to create business intelligence
Posted By Simon FrancisSolutions Specialist
I recently attended this year’s Retail Business Technology Expo (RBTE) at Earls Court in London. I often think that trade events focus on how bad a cup of coffee can be or how much the attendees are prepared to pay for a ham sandwich. However, RBTE was a real eye opener for me. It offers the opportunity for retailers to review the latest and greatest from the tech community and to hear from other retailers like Julian Burnett, head of retail architecture for John Lewis, who ran a great session on retail innovation.
The Retail Business Technology Expo in London brought some eye-opening intelligent solutions to light.
This year I had the opportunity to review solutions from three organizations, all of which demonstrate the potential of intelligent systems and Windows Embedded.
Posted By Barb EdsonGeneral Manager, Marketing and Business Development
Businesses now have one year to migrate off of Windows XP; Microsoft will end support for the platform in April, 2014 including Windows XP Professional for Embedded Systems. Windows Embedded product manager Cuong Pham explains the efficiency and security benefits of migrating to a modern Windows platform.
As my colleagues over at Windows are reminding companies today, Windows XP’s support will end in April 2014, and businesses are moving to modern platforms like Windows 7 and Windows 8.
From our perspective, that means that support is ending for Windows XP Professional for Embedded Systems in 2014, too. (Windows XP Embedded will be supported through 2016; please see Microsoft Support Lifecycle for more information on support for other Windows Embedded platforms.) Businesses moving to modern platforms need industry devices such as thin clients, point of service (POS) devices, kiosks, digital signs, medical devices, automation devices and more, and expect them to be easy to deploy and manage based on familiarity, common tools, and integration with enterprise and IT assets. OEMs have the opportunity to build industry devices on Windows 7 and Windows 8 platforms using Windows Embedded 7 and Windows Embedded 8:
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