- Microsoft announced today that its "retail-optimized" flavor of Windows XP Embedded SP2 is now shipping to manufacturers of POS (point-of-sales/service) equipment for the retail and hospitality industries...
WEPOS is claimed by Microsoft to be the first POS software platform to support peripheral plug-and-play functionality, the feature most requested by retailers, it says. Additionally, the platform supports critical and emerging POS technologies such as RFID, wireless, networking, and multimedia, which have not previously been well supported in the POS equipment industry...
Other key features of WEPOS are its strong default security settings -- a "hardened" Internet Explorer browser, Windows Logon user authentication, buffer overrun protection, for example -- and minimized operating system code size, which collectively reduce system vulnerabilities according to Microsoft...
http://www.windowsfordevices.com/news/NS6680977922.html
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