What's WEPOS?

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Did you know that whenever you take a trip through the checkout lane your probably having a close encounter of the embedded kind - and those checkouts are undoubtedly running an OS. 

Windows XP Embedded is a good choice for POS devices, delivering the robustness, security and manageability demanded by this environment.  However, given the high level of commonality between Till applications it makes sense to define a specific Till OS and thus Windows Embedded for Point Of Service (WEPOS) was born.

The WEPOS platform is a "Standard" build that provides the functionality commonly required for a Point of Service platform along with an API for integrating Industry Standard OPOS peripherals.  This provides the benefits of XP Embedded with the added advantage of a common build to ease maintenance and management.

Anyway, the important point is that a New Version (1.1) has just been release, which adds the following features:

  • Support for the updated version of the Unified Point of Service (UPOS) industry standard
  • Expanded support for legacy retail peripherals
  • Support for the latest version of the Microsoft .NET Framework version 2.0

· Updates to the Windows Embedded for Point of Service platform including pre-post setup command file functionality and expanded support for mass storage devices

More details on WEPOS can be found here: https://www.microsoft.com/windows/embedded/wepos/default.mspx

And Version 1.1: https://www.infoworld.com/article/06/03/06/76121_HNmspointofservice_1.html