Lower Support Costs
The Microsoft Embedded Server family includes a wide variety of dedicated server and server appliance solutions featuring 15-year support life cycle to lower maintenance costs. Key benefits for OEMs that qualify to use Microsoft Embedded Server products in place of general-purpose Microsoft Server products are:
Lower support costs because of 15-year support life cycle
Higher product ROI because of lower license pricing for Embedded Server products
Ability to leverage any feature available in general-purpose server products to build compelling, differentiated client/server solutions
Features of Popular Microsoft Embedded Server Products
Windows Server 2008 for Embedded Systems / Windows Server 2003 for Embedded Systems |
Based on the same software as the general purpose version of Windows Server 2008/2003
New features in 2008 include: - Small footprint: Server Core
- Virtualization: Hyper-V
- Security: BitLocker
- Manageability: Powershell
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15-year product life (Distribution for WS 2008 ends 2/26/2023; WS2003 ends 5/28/2018) |
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Windows SQL Server 2012 for Embedded Systems / Windows SQL Server 2008 / Windows SQL Server 2005 for Embedded Systems |
Based on the same software as the general purpose version of SQL Server 2012/2008/2005
New features in 2012 include: StreamInsight support PowerPivot support Virtualization support
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15-year product life (Distribution for SQL 2008 ends 7/31/2023; SQL 2005 ends 1/30/2020) |
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Windows® Unified Data Storage Server 2003 (WUDSS) for Embedded Systems / Windows® Storage Server 2003 R2 for Embedded Systems |
New features in WUDDS include:
Microsoft iSCSI Software Target
Out-of-box experience system management interface |
15-year product life |
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