The Microsoft Windows Embedded team has announced the availability of the third Windows Embedded Standard 8 community technology preview (CTP). This release follows the Windows Embedded Standard 8 CTP 2 made available in June and delivers 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
  • Support for even more languages, including Arabic, Dutch, Italian, 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.