Back home again in the Mobile Embedded Division

The XPe team has moved back to the Mobile Embedded Division (MED) last week. I'm really excited and this is the perfect end to a year that has had many ups and downs.

Let me provide some backstory-

Years ago, when the Embedded team first shipped XPe, the Windows Core OS Division recognized the value of componentizing the operating system. Inheriting benefits like SKU agility, improved robustness of the OS, cleaning up the build processes and much more. So the XP Embedded team was moved from MED (then it was called EAPG - Embedded Appliance Platform Group) to the Core OS Division to start driving this componentization effort.

While at COSD over these years, we delivered Service Pack 1 and 2 for XPe, as well as bootstrapping the componentization processes throughout the rest of the Windows division for Windows vista. All in all we've been very successful in evangelizing and driving the the benefits of componentization for the next OS while still maintaining parity with the Service packs delivered for XP Pro.

Today we have some new faces on the Embedded Windows team and we're all very excited to be moving the team back to the division where our roots began. It'll also be exciting to again be near partner teams like CE, Windows Automotive and Windows Mobile where they understand the embedded market and we can share in their synergies! Having partners like that around will help us ensure we focus on the right priorities. Of course, the top priority is you - the Windows Embedded Developers and their E2E experience.

I'm really psyched about the upcoming year, it's going to be a good one for our customers.

- Andy