Windows Embedded Standard 8 targets the specialized device world with all the native security improvements to the stack and core operating system components as Windows 8.

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The WBI machines are subject to outside security threats because they employ Windows XP operating system and the Ethernet network.

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Oh, and the the same connectivity will also power a home-security system that, in effect, gives your doors, windows and most anything else in your house an Internet address so you can monitor and control them digitally.

CNN: Doug Gross,

CIOs are going to think twice: Do they want another architecture in terms of the operating system, or do they want to bring in a Windows machine so that all their legacy and security apps run?

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The Microsoft Windows 8 operating system will bring the Trusted Platform Modules (TPMs, the basis of storage device-based encryption security as well as additional security features) to wider use for enterprise applications.

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Bill Gates, Microsoft's chairman and software boss, regards this interface crisis as one of the biggest challenges for his firm, alongside the security holes in Windows and, perhaps, the threat from Linux, an open-source operating system.

ECONOMIST: Metaphorically speaking