WEDR is the Windows Embedded team's principal product planning event held to present, and incorporate feedback on, Microsoft's roadmap and plan for future releases of Windows Embedded CE and Windows XP Embedded, writes XPe-tester Lynda Allen. New in this year's event, is a track devoted to
WEPOS/POS for .NET.
During each WEDR session, the Windows Embedded team presents ideas, features, and tasks that pertain to a particular aspect of Microsoft's product roadmap, according to Allen. Attendees are asked a series of very specific questions, which are voted on using hand-held voting consoles, and then collated and displayed.
Allen says this process provides the team with targeted and immediate feedback as to which items are of value to customers, and what priority they should be given. Additionally, the event benefits the company's key customers and partners by allowing them to be directly involved in the product planning process, and by giving them an early glimpse of Microsoft's future plans.
Allen adds that all users are encouraged to provide feedback, either by
email or by posting to the
XPe Team Blog. A few currently-listed specific questions are:
- Is there a need for a Vista Embedded Product (what sort of devices would benefit from Vista technologies)?
- What features of Vista would be most interesting in the Embedded space?
- What Vista features that may be made available to down-level systems like XP Professional would be useful to back-port to XP Embedded?
- How important is footprint? For projects using something other than a handheld device, what size storage device is anticipated in the next two years?
Read Allen's complete blog post
here.
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