Microsoft announced basic availability on March 1 with the last model of its Windows Embedded Compact 7 operating program, codenamed “Chelan.”
Microsoft posted a 180-day trial edition of the final Windows Embedded Compact seven bits to the Microsoft Download Center on February 28. (Microsoft officials refused to say when the Compact 7 product actually RTM’d, but @UltraWindows notes the digital signature on the bits is February 19, 2011.)
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The newest Embedded Compact running program is designed to power phones (including Windows Phones), medical devices,
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Office 2007, as well as slates/tablets.
For the final several months,
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Microsoft’s first “real” tablet/slate OS is considered by many to be Windows 8, which is seemingly on track to be released to manufacturing in 2012.
The Windows Embedded Compact 7 product — the evolution of Windows Embedded CE — includes several new features. Among them:
* Support for ARM v7
* New developer and designer tools
* New technology for creating user interfaces
* New SMP (symmetric multiprocessing) support for x86 & ARM,
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* New multimedia player, with customizable UI
* New model of Internet Explorer (which is based on IE seven with some “performance updates” from IE 8)
* Flash 10.1 support (which requires an Adobe license by OEMs who want to include that feature)
* Silverlight for Embedded support
* Improved Connectivity to PCs, servers (NDIS 6.one support)
Silverlight for Embedded enables OEMs to create custom interfaces,
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