Yesterday the Microsoft Windows Embedded team has announced the
availability of the third
Windows Embedded Standard 8 CTP3 (Community
Technology Preview).
This release follows the
Windows Embedded Standard 8 CTP 2 made
available in June and provides many quality improvements and
several new capabilities - including:
- Alignment with the
Windows 8 RTM codebase.
- New specialized device templates added to provide easy to use
blueprints as a starting point for designing the OS for your
specialized devices.
- New features and enhancements around lockdown scenarios,
including a special servicing mode for devices that use the Unified
Write Filter, and a new ability to block and filter USB ports.
- Language
support for Italian.
- Support for even more languages, including Arabic, Dutch,
Russian, Swedish, and Turkish.
- Many quality improvements, such as a restructured catalog, F1
help available in the Image Configuration Editor (ICE) toolkit,
improved USB media creation, and modules to support common
applications.
"The Windows Embedded Standard 8 CTP 3 marks another milestone
on Windows Embedded Standard 8 roadmap, but your feedback is still
needed to ensure that we're delivering the best product that we
possibly can. At Microsoft we are very excited about the
possibilities Windows 8 technologies provide for intelligent
systems and encourage our partners to download the
CTP 3 today." says J.T. Kimbell, Microsoft Program
Manager in his post on Windows Embedded
Blog from which I took this information for my this post.
In BEPS we have already downloaded CTP3 and made the first build
and, at first glance, the news are obvious both from the point of
view of functionality and improvement of the supporting
documentation.
For more information (in English) refer to www.windowsembedded.com/wes8ctp.
