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<blockquote data-quote="TJ Cornish" data-source="post: 108795" data-attributes="member: 162">Re: Avid Consoles…. XP and ?Two different issues in this thread - what OS to run on your FOH computer - which should be an easy choice, and the lifespan and future of Windows XP Embedded. According to MS: <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/windowsembedded/en-us/product-lifecycles.aspx" target="_blank">Windows Embedded | Product Lifecycles</a> Windows XP Embedded is supported until Jan 2017. For products that are under development today, XP Embedded seems to be a poor choice for the mfr. to spend resources coding for. There are at least 4 versions of Embedded code newer than XP. I&#039;m not up on the resource requirements of each or any feature support constraints, but would think that in cases of AVID gear which is a fairly robust platform, there would be available hardware resources to run newer code, if the mfr. wishes to extend the working life of the systems.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="TJ Cornish, post: 108795, member: 162"] Re: Avid Consoles…. XP and ? Two different issues in this thread - what OS to run on your FOH computer - which should be an easy choice, and the lifespan and future of Windows XP Embedded. According to MS: [URL="http://www.microsoft.com/windowsembedded/en-us/product-lifecycles.aspx"]Windows Embedded | Product Lifecycles[/URL] Windows XP Embedded is supported until Jan 2017. For products that are under development today, XP Embedded seems to be a poor choice for the mfr. to spend resources coding for. There are at least 4 versions of Embedded code newer than XP. I'm not up on the resource requirements of each or any feature support constraints, but would think that in cases of AVID gear which is a fairly robust platform, there would be available hardware resources to run newer code, if the mfr. wishes to extend the working life of the systems. [/QUOTE]

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