XP Embedded - Not for Consumers
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Peter Kastner, chief research officer at the Aberdeen Group, told NewsFactor that XP Embedded was not designed to support new applications or functionality. "It's not like you can punch a button and add a word processor or a media player to an XP Embedded environment, unless you get back to 'regenerating' the operating system -- a techie term that home users would come to hate. There's just no point to it," Kastner said. He explained that XP Embedded technology is intended to compete with Linux in non-computer consumer electronic devices. "It's a different market -- an operating system that is designed for another purpose," he noted.