Meanwhile, ARM-based CPUs are wresting increasing market share from x86-compatible processors.
When we asked respondents which OSes had been in their companies' embedded designs during the past two years, Windows-based technologies were 61.5 percent of the total. So far, so good, but that was down from our 2005 survey, when Windows had 65.7 percent share.
When we asked respondents which embedded operating systems they would adopt during the next couple of years, just over 14 percent selected Windows XP Embedded, a decline of more than 30 percent over 2005. However, Windows CE is up by 10 percent, with 25 percent share, and Windows Mobile figures in more respondents' plans too, with more than 19 percent share.
Meanwhile, while there's no imminent danger of x86-based CPUs dying out anytime soon, ARM-based processors will continue to be the star performers, according to the survey. We asked respondents which CPUs they expected to be in their company's embedded designs through 2009. More than 36 percent of those answering picked ARM, and only 28 percent picked x86.
Additional survey questions included:
- How likely are you, or your company, to embed Windows technologies during the next couple of years?
- What factors will have the greatest influence on your choice of an operating system platform?
- Which markets does your company serve?
To learn the answers to these questions, and get more detail on those mentioned above, read more about the survey,
here.
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