Windows Embedded for Point of Service

Retail SeminarMicrosoft Prague

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Industry Trends and Challenges

Cost consciousness through the product lifecycle

Push towards standardization

Retail enterprises increasingly connected

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New Technologies being introduced to the store

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Microsoft POS Strategy

Provide a standard, retail-optimized OS platform for Point of Service systems Easier Empowering Lower Lifecycle Costs

Partner with OEMs to bring devices to market Fujitsu Transaction Solutions, IBM, Micros, NEC Infrontia,

Toshiba TEC, Wincor-Nixdorf Build a broad community of retail ISVs and peripheral

vendors around the Windows Embedded for Point of Service platform and .NET

Enable partner companies to cost-effectively build and bring to market POS systems based on the Windows Embedded for Point of Service platform

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What is Windows Embedded for Point of Service ? Standard, retail-optimized OS platform for Point

of Service devicesOnly POS platform to provide Plug-n-Play support for retail peripheralsBased on Windows XP with Service Pack 2Available from Windows Embedded OEM partnersReduced OS footprint

Microsoft’s recommended OS for full-featured Point of Service terminals

Point of Sale, Kiosks, Self-Checkout, Fuel Pumps, Automated Teller Machines

First of a series of retail-focused investments from Microsoft that will continue through “Longhorn”

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Windows Embedded for Point of Service - Overview

EasierEasier

EmpoweringEmpowering

Easier Point of Service platform to Easier Point of Service platform to setup, use and service.setup, use and service.

Empowers businesses to deliver the Empowers businesses to deliver the desired customer experiences of desired customer experiences of today and tomorrow.today and tomorrow.

The POS platform with low The POS platform with low development, deployment, servicing development, deployment, servicing and hardware costs and the longest and hardware costs and the longest published product support. published product support.

Lower LifecycleLower LifecycleCostCost

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Simplified Setup

Standard POS platformProvides an Windows XP Pro-like setup

Plug-n-Play retail peripheral support

Retail standards supportUnified POS

Broad application supportWEPOS retail application verification

Standard SDK with Consistent APIs

Comprehensive Programming Language support: C#, Java, .NET 1.1, Win32, J# Application compatibility

Empowering

Lower LifecycleCosts

Windows Embedded for Point of Service - Overview

EasierEasier

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Efficient Servicing

Extend PC management to POSSupport for standard PC management technologies

Windows XP Integration Microsoft .NET Framework v1.1 support

Seamless Microsoft Server IntegrationWindows Server 2003

SQL Server

Systems Management Server (SMS)

Systems Update Server (SUS)

Legacy application support for DOS, Win32 or .NET technologies

Empowering

Lower LifecycleCosts

Windows Embedded for Point of Service - Overview

EasierEasier

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Windows Embedded for Point of Service - Overview

Optimized OS for retail and hospitality

Integrated Retail-Specific OS level technologies and services

Security and Updates Management

Minimized OS footprint

Security Technology support

Software update deployment and management support

Easier

Lower LifecycleCosts

EmpoweringEmpowering

Remote Boot

Multi-user login

Dual Display

Remote Image monitoring

Browser

Multimedia

.NET

Networking

Diskless Support

Ongoing R&D

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Lower OS and application development costs

Lower deployment costs

Lower servicing and maintenance costs

Lower Hardware costs

Extended Support Lifecycle to 2015

Easier

Empowering

Windows Embedded for Point of Service - Overview

Lower LifecycleLower LifecycleCostCost

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Why Windows Embedded for Point of Service?

Choose the easy to use, retail-optimized Point of Service (POS) platform to achieve low lifecycle costs

Easier retail POS platform to setup, use and service

Empowers retailers to deliver the desired customer experiences of today and tomorrow

Low development, deployment, servicing and hardware costs and the longest published product support

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Next StepsVisit the Windows Embedded for Point of Service web page

www.microsoft.com/windows/embedded/wepos

Evaluate Windows Embedded for Point of Service120-day trial versionhttp://www.windowsembeddedkit.com/

Verify your applications and retail peripherals for Windows Embedded for Point of Service

http://www.veritest.com/certification/ms/wepos/ Experience the benefits of the Windows Embedded community

Read technical content on Microsoft MSDN®: http://msdn.microsoft.com/embedded

Participate in newsgroups and chats: http://msdn.microsoft.com/embedded/community/default.aspx

Sign up for the Embedded DevWire newsletter:http://msdn.microsoft.com/embedded/community/devwire/

default.aspxContact your point-of-service device manufacturer to order

Windows Embedded Partner Web site:http://www.mswep.com/

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