I would suggest "WinXP for Embedded Systems" ( WinXP FES) which is marketed as "Windows Embedded Enterprise".
I would suggest a slight alternative to WinXP Embedded Standard. Your application, and the ad campaign in particular, are more important than many of the features of the OS, so I'd pick the most straightforward OS to develop on where the development OS is very similar to the target OS. WinXP has the horrible boot sequence and more venerable to security attacks but as this is not a hand-held consumable product I think I'd live without WinCE's finesse. If you have a fully fledged x86 system without limitation, low power requirements or interfacing with embedded hardware as I seem to understand from your application then WinXP would win hands-down for me. I have no idea what the overhead costs are for WinCE either. That's a very gracious amount of time for testing out whether WES suits your needs or not. You can get a WES demo that's good for 4 months, and you can generate an unlimited number of "demo" XP installs that last 90-180 days (their numbers, not mine). Getting all the licensing stuff set up is a hassle because you have to go through distributors for both the WES software and the keys, and there's only 4 distributors in the US. I'm not so sure about WinCE since I haven't used it, but I had the impression that the available programs for it were very restricted - that would probably be the biggest downside.Īs far as licensing goes, you're looking at a thousand dollars for the WES license, plus $90 for each WinXP license. This would be a very good feature to have if you need things like Flash. This means that you'll be able to install pretty much anything that would run on a normal WinXP desktop - and if it can't run, you usually can just get it to run by figuring out which component you haven't installed yet. If you get Windows Embedded Standard, I can tell you from experience that it is easy to set up as a more-or-less full-featured Windows XP installation.
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