Microsoft announces general availability of Windows Embedded Compact 2013
微軟宣布推出Windows Embedded Compact 2013正式版

June 13, 2013 — Microsoft today announced the general availability of Windows Embedded Compact 2013. Optimized for building small-footprint industry devices, Windows Embedded Compact 2013 includes powerful new tools and capabilities — including new support for Visual Studio 2012 — that extend the experience of Windows and help businesses capitalize on the Internet of Things.

6月13日消息——微軟今天宣布推出Windows Embedded Compact 2013正式版。專為構建小型行業設備而優化的Windows Embedded Compact 2013支持Visual Studio 2012等強大的新工具和特性，它將擴展Windows的用戶體驗，并幫助企業更好地利用物聯網。

The release is the latest generation of one of the smallest and most flexible products in the Windows Embedded portfolio, designed to power devices that need real-time performance and silicon flexibility, with support for x86 and ARM architectures.

該版本是最新一代Windows Embedded產品線中最小、最靈活的產品之一，該操作系統支持x86和ARM架構，為那些對實時性和芯片靈活性有特殊需求的設備而設計。

Powering industry
推動行業發展

Windows Embedded Compact 2013 is ideal for powering some of the smallest industry devices, such as programmable logic controllers and human-machine interface panels used to monitor processes in manufacturing, RFID scanners in retail environments, and portable ultrasound machines and diagnostic lab equipment in healthcare settings. When these devices are connected via the cloud to backend systems, the resulting intelligent system generates data that can be harnessed and analyzed to provide actionable insight for the enterprise. That data is considered the new currency of business.

Windows Embedded Compact 2013是應用于一些小型行業設備的理想選擇，例如可編程邏輯控制器（PLC）和人機界面(HMI)面板等，它們往往用于制造業的流程監控、零售業的RFID掃描儀，以及醫療行業的便攜式超聲儀和實驗室診斷設備當中。當這些設備通過云端連接到后臺時，形成一個智能系統，該智能系統將分析、利用自己生成的數據，為企業帶來切實可行的見解。這些數據被認為是商業新財富。

“It’s now essential for businesses to tap into the vast potential of data if they want to compete,” says Kevin Dallas, general manager for Windows Embedded at Microsoft. “With Windows Embedded powering industry devices, that data is made readily available to drive real, actionable operational intelligence for industries. Windows Embedded Compact 2013 is a really powerful, flexible platform for extending that capability to some of the smallest industry devices.”

微軟Windows 嵌入式事業部總經理Kevin Dallas表示：“當今的企業如果想在競爭中取勝就必須挖掘數據的巨大潛力。采用Windows Embedded驅動的行業設備，可以隨時獲得這些數據，為這些行業提供真實的、可操作的運營情報。Windows Embedded Compact 2013是將這種能力延伸到一些最小型行業設備的真正強大、靈活的平臺。”

Optimized performance
優化的性能

Users will see some major improvements to device functionality with Windows Embedded Compact 2013. “Performance was a particular focus in this release,” says Steven Bridgeland, senior product manager, Windows Embedded at Microsoft. “We have spent countless hours optimizing our code to greatly improve system and network performance, making applications feel snappier.”

采用Windows Embedded Compact 2013，用戶將體會到設備功能的一些重大改進。微軟Windows 嵌入式事業部高級產品經理Steven Bridgeland表示：“性能是該版本特別關注的一個方面。我們花費了大量的時間來優化代碼，從而大大提高了系統和網絡性能，使應用程序運行得更加順暢。”

Windows Embedded Compact 2013 features include the following:

Windows Embedded Compact 2013具備以下特性：

• Improvements to the core operating system, including memory management and networking capabilities
• Improved file-system performance, enabling devices to always be available
• Optimized startup, with snapshot boot, which allows devices to boot within seconds to a known state, such as a specific UI with device drivers loaded
• Built-in support for Wi-Fi, cellular and Bluetooth technologies, and a seamless connection to Windows Azure, for a robust, connected intelligent system
• Support from thousands of developers and partners, who have built add-on solutions, including HTML5 browsers

• 核心操作系統的改進，包括內存管理和網絡功能；
• 文件系統的性能改進，使設備始終可用；
• 啟動優化，使用快照啟動，實現設備在幾秒鐘內進入驅動程序加載，進入特定UI等已知狀態；
• 內置支持Wi-Fi、蜂窩網絡和藍牙技術，以及無縫連接到Windows Azure，實現強大的互聯智能系統；
• 眾多創建了附加解決方案的開發者和合作伙伴提供支持，包括HTML5瀏覽器；

Development platform
開發平臺

The new release also offers improvements for developers who build devices on Windows Embedded Compact 2013. “With this release, we focused on making developers’ lives easier,” Bridgeland says. “Support for Visual Studio 2012 offers significant improvements for developers, including a simplified UI and sharper syntax colorization, and tools such as improved compilers, auto-generation of code snippets and XAML tools.”

新版本還為方便開發人員在Windows Embedded Compact 2013之上構建設備進行了改進。Bridgeland表示：“該版本專注于讓開發人員的工作變得更輕松。對Visual Studio 2012的支持，給開發人員的工作帶來了顯而易見的好處，包括簡化的用戶界面和清晰的語法著色，包括改進的編譯器、自動生成的代碼片段和XAML工具等。”

Today’s announcement is a key component of Microsoft’s road map for intelligent systems, a vision first announced in fall 2011. Microsoft entered the embedded marketplace more than 15 years ago, and it continues to lead the evolution of intelligent systems with an extensive suite of technologies.

今天發布的產品是微軟2011年秋天首次公布的愿景——智能系統路線圖的一個重要組成部分。微軟進入嵌入式市場已經超過15年，未來將憑借其廣泛的技術組合，繼續引領智能系統的演進。