INCLUDED
Microsoft says the following key updates and enhancements are included in the Windows XP Embedded Service Pack 2 update:
- Enhanced Windows Firewall -- a redesigned Windows Firewall, activated by default, helps safeguard devices by giving users and administrators more control over inbound connections.
- Remote communications -- SP2 adds support for Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) v5.2.
- Multimedia capabilities -- SP2 includes new "advanced" multimedia capabilities including Windows Media Player 9 Series and Microsoft DirectX 9.0c.
- Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1 -- The .NET Framework 1.1 component, included in the Windows Embedded Studio component database for SP2, is said to deliver increased scalability and performance. Other key new .NET Framework features include: native support for mobile Web applications; support for the execution of Windows Forms assemblies from the Internet; code access security for ASP.NET applications; a unified programming model for smart client application development; and support for IPv6.
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- Bluetooth -- XPe SP2 includes a new Bluetooth networking protocol stack.
- Software Update Services (SUS) -- SUS enables automatic scanning and deployment of Microsoft-issued security updates on XPe-based devices, and increases the ability to integrate devices across networks.
- Systems Management Server (SMS) -- SP2 adds a client for SMS, which enables remotely updating applications on XPe-based devices from a centralized location.
- Generic Device Driver Support component -- this new OS component can be used during the design phase to quickly add support to a run-time image for one or more device classes, including the keyboard, printer, and modem device classes.
- Quick boot -- newly added APIs (application programming interfaces) added to the Enhanced Write Filter (EWF) function provide dramatic reductions in startup and shutdown times, enabling claimed boot times of as little as 10 seconds.
