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Field upgradeable devices! Security/Fix Updates addressed in SP2 Pro Roll-up of all post SP1 QFEs Fix Embedded customer and PSS issues with SP1
EWF PNP Driver support Device upgrade and service enhancements
Doc updates Component help for new components Active How-To
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Windows XP Embedded SP2 New Windows XP Professional features
Bluetooth Stack and Profile
DirectX9 Subsystem APIs
Windows Firewall enhancements
Stronger Internet Explorer
App Compat macros
System Management Server 2003 client
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.Net Compact Work 3.5 Feature
·System.IO.Compression , support for HTTP compression.
·Support for a subset of Linq’s Standard Query Operators.
·SoundPlayer support allowing for multiple sounds to play at once.
·New API for easily distinguishing Smartphone and Pocket PC.
·Enhanced logging for interop functionality with native code.
·Stack Trace Enhancements.
·GAC(Global Assembly Cache) Improvements.
·Allow for StrongName keys greater than 1024 long.
·Allow log files to be read at runtime.
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Windows XP Embedded SP2 Embedded Enabling Features enhancements
Already released (New Windows XP Professional features) Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) 5.2 .NET Framework 1.1 SP1 Windows Media Player 9 Windows Media Player 10(2005/12/1)
New Enhanced Write Filter API
Faster Boot – Hibernate Once Resume Many
Integrated Remote Boot Setup
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Windows XP Embedded Feature Pack 2007 CTP ~New!! New EEFs! Such as File Based Write Filter and Registry Filter. USB Boot! Yes, this is native USB Boot capability in XPe! Enhancements to EWF and HORM Many of the bug fixes you've been asking for in the Tools
(such as Target Designer, CMI, Import Framework, SLX/XML usability)
New command line tool that replicates Target Designer, enables you to script your builds and much much more!
Tons of work on component dependencies to reduce footprint (including removing dependencies to the full "Internet Explorer" component!)
We've added new configurable UI to common components to simplify your offline configuration of images
New components added to the database to address more Application Compatibility challenges
New macro components to allow installation of other Microsoft technologies in your runtime
All security patches for XPe-SP2 rolled up to the Feature Pack repository
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Windows XP Embedded SP2 Roadmap
2007200620052004
“Componentized” versionbased on Windows XP
Service Pack 2with added
Embedded EnablingFeatures
Adding new tool functionality
and more Embedded Enabling
Features to XPe
Adding newWindows Vista
Enablingcomponents
To XPe
Windows XPeWindows XPeFeature Pack 1Feature Pack 1
Windows XPeWindows XPeFeature Pack 2Feature Pack 2
Windows XPeWindows XPeService Pack 2Service Pack 2
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