Features:

• Reduced Footprint: 12,000 Individual Components; 40 MB at smallest
• Processor: x86
• Real-Time OS: Via Third Party Plug in (IntervalZero, RTX, TenAsys, and INtime)
• Code Flexibility: Choose your preferred Microsoft development technology�Win32, MFC, or the .NET Framework (C#, VB). Familiar, faster development
• 设计模板：立即使用内置设计模板，用于共同技术和设备�，包括基于Windows的终端，销售点终端，智能电器等
• Configure and Test Easily: Build, develop, customize, and test your device with a variety of operating system development tools
• Security Features: Provide enterprise-class manageability with security updates. Integrate robust security features into your device easily with Windows security features, including built-in firewalls
• Enhanced Compilers: Use the latest Visual Studio compilers that increase C++ language conformance, provide better libraries, support CRT, ATL, and MFC and offer improved runtime security check features
• Production Quality Drivers: Choose drivers, services, and applications to include in your final embedded operating system image, decrease driver modification and reduce OS size
• Windows，Win32 API：使用标准硬件并运行标准的离上的Win32应用程序，驱动程序或服务，只需几乎或没有移植
• Componentized OS:
  
  Write Filters: XPe includes feature components known as write filters, which can be used to filter out disk writes. The volumes can be marked as read-only using these filters and all writes to it can be redirected. Applications in user mode are unaware of this write filtering. XPe ships with two write filters
  
  Enhanced Write Filter (EWF): EWF protects a system at volume level. It redirects all disk writes to a protected drive to memory or a separate disk. EWF is extremely useful when used in Thin Clients that have flash memory as their primary boot source
  
  File Based Write Filter (FBWF) FBWF allows the configuration of individual files as read/write on a protected volume
  
• USB Boot: XPe adds a USB boot option to Windows, An XPe embedded device can be configured to boot from a USB drive
• CD Boot: An XPe device can be configured to boot from a CD-ROM. This allows the device to boot without the requirement of having a physical hard disk drive as well as provides a "fresh boot" every time the image is booted
• 网络引导：可以将XPE设备配置为从正确配置的网络引导。CD启动的同义词，网络启动消除了具有物理硬盘的要求以及提供“新启动”行为

应用程序:

开发人员对各种智能，连接和服务的高级商业或消费者或消费者设备使用Windows Embedded标准，运行数千个现有的Windows应用程序和驱动程序，从瘦客户机到多功能打印机，包括：

• Advanced Set-top Boxes
• 燃油泵
• Full Featured Point of Service
• 游戏设备
• Home Automation Gateways
• Industrial Controls
• Intelligent Appliances
• 多媒体互联网设备
• Kiosks
• Media Servers
• Mobile Point of Service
• 监控设备
• Multi-Function Printers
• 网络媒体设备和服务器
• Windows-based Terminals

技术规格：

• System Requirements: Necessary workstation elements for developing in Windows XP Embedded, Developing with Windows XP Embedded requires:
  
  • CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive
  • Mouse or pointing device
  • VGA or higher resolution monitor, 1024x768 recommended
• Compatibility:Easily inter operate with many common industry standards, plus numerous Microsoft desktop and server technologies. Systems Management Server (SMS), Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM), Microsoft SL Server/SQL Express, Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0, Windows Media Player 10, Windows Server 2008

Operating System Tools:简化和简化整个开发过程的组件

• 目标分析仪：Verifies if your run-time image will support your chosen hardware by probing the target device hardware and analyzing its content. Automate hardwares specific data to produce runtime images tailored to your target hardware
• Target Designer:帮助您构建，开发和自定义嵌入式运行时映像，并能够将配置保存到XML中。节省时间的功能包括：
  
  • 概率估算工具：计算添加某些组件和组件依赖项的影响将在运行时图像的占用空间上具有
  • 组件依赖性检查：为特定目标设备创建可引导运行时映像
  • 高级组件浏览：使用多个树视图和可自定义过滤器轻松找到可理想的功能

• Component Designer:Define custom components to use in embedded runtime images. Convert unique drivers and applications into components for use in a custom operating system image
• Component Database:Store component level information during embedded runtime image development
• Component Database Manager:管理级信息,including the component database and underlying repositories
• Command Line Tool (with FP 2007):Automate the end-to-end build process, search and manipulate the component database, investigate component relationships and dependency chains, import custom components and delete components from the database
• 设备模板：Use available templates for advanced set top boxes, home gateways, intelligent appliances, kiosk/gaming consoles, network attached storage, retail POS and Win-based terminals
• Middleware:将您的开发资源集中在添加产品创新，差异化和价值，使用构建块进行一系列设备

Device Security:

Security enhancements for Windows XP Embedded devices include:

• Automatically enabled Windows Firewall makes it easier for you to open and close certain ports, based on the network topology to be deployed
• Internet Explorer会增加Web浏览安全性，其中功能诸如潜在有害的下载的弹出阻止和警告
• Recompiled features that increase memory-protecting capabilities and support for hardware-enforced �No Execute� (NX)

Advantages:

• Connectivity: Componentized version of Microsoft Windows XP Professional, Windows XP Embedded enables developers to choose from more than 12,000 individual feature components to maximize functionality in a reduced footprint
• Confidence: Reduce time-to-market by using familiar development tools like Visual Studio and working with commodity PC hardware and combining desktop applications, drivers, and services, the Windows XP Embedded operating system software includes up-to-date multimedia and Web browsing capabilities and contains extensive device support
• Latest Embedded-Enabling Capabilities includes support for multiple boot, storage, deployment, and management technologies
• 成本效益：Windows嵌入式Studio工具简化了端到端开发过程，并使开发人员能够快速配置，构建和部署具有丰富的应用程序的智能设计
• 社区：当您使用Windows嵌入式产品开发时，您可以访问主动开发社区和合作伙伴生态系统，以确保您不仅让您的设备更快地推销，而且建立有利可图的业务