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While it hasn;t said much about its options to get a Vista-based successor to its Windows XP-based embedded running technique,Microsoft Office 2007 Key, Microsoft already is functioning on 1.Microsoft launched throughout the very first week of June a new check construct of its newest Windows XP-based embedded operating system,Windows 7 Starter, recognized as “Windows Embedded Standard 2009,” the final version of which is slated to ship by the end of 2008.However, Microsoft also is readying the 2010 successor to this product — another Windows Embedded release codenamed “Quebec.” Unlike the 2009 release of Windows Embedded, the Quebec product will make use of a number of features that are part of Windows Vista.Microsoft is on tap to share some information about the Vista-based embedded release at its TechEd Developers Conference this week in Orlando. A very first widescale Community Technology Preview (CTP) check develop of Quebec is due out next year.Microsoft;s Windows Embedded family of products, which Microsoft sells to device makers, is designed to power thin client terminals, point-of-service terminals,Cheap Office 2007, gaming devices, medical-imaging systems, DVRs and industrial-automation systems, among other products. Windows Embedded is not at the core of cell phones or ultra-low-cost PCs (ULPCs), however. Windows Mobile phones presently are built on top of a Windows CE-based core and ULPCs run full-fledged Windows. (Microsoft has OK;d ULPC makers shipping Windows XP on their systems through 2010.)The forthcoming Quebec embedded release will include BitLocker drive encryption, Windows Firewall, Windows Defender, Address-Space Load Randomization — and on the memory-management front, support for SuperFetch,Microsoft Office 2007 Ultimate, ReadyBoost and Dynamic Method Address Space. On certain devices, the Quebec release will also provide as optional components Aero user-interface, Windows Media Player 11 and various Internet Explorer 7 features. Unlike Microsoft;s XP-based embedded releases, which are 32-bit only, Quebec will support both 32-bit x86 and 64-bit x64 processors.Not surprisingly, support for all these features comes at a cost — size. According to a slide deck available to TechEd attendees, even though Windows XP Embedded core;s minimum image size is around 40MB, according to a slide deck to be presented at TechEd on June 6, Quebec;s core is expected be around 300MB — not counting all the optional add-ons like Media Player,Office Home And Business, IE 7, etc.The other cost is Quebec will require product activation; XP Embedded does not. The Quebec release will require basic retail activation or OEM activation. There will be a default evaluation product key that will allow the Quebec image to run for 30 days without activation.