“On the heels of Caldera’s sweeping pact with Motorola Computer
Group on the embedded systems front, Microsoft Monday unveiled a
version of NT for non-PC industrial devices.”
“Like Motorola’s Computer Group, which will use OpenLinux and
Lineo’s Embeddix to attract embedded-systems developers, Redmond,
Wash.-based Microsoft is targeting Windows NT Embedded 4.0 at
makers of manufacturing systems, telecommunications systems, and
office-automation and medical devices…”
“Microsoft is eager to tap into the embedded systems market
because its operating systems competitors — namely Linux vendors
— have identified non-PC devices, thin clients, and remote
computing as important market segments, analysts said.”