The car entertainment market is very promising for those who can provide a suitable embedded platform.

At Microsoft, it’s called Windows Embedded Automotive 7. The car is becoming more and more high-tech sound system board is changing rapidly and still offers more features, ranging from technical information relating to the vehicle multimedia entertainment for passengers.

During that Intel put major development of Atom processors and dedicated on the mobile platform for a couple MeeGo attractive for infotainment systems, with some success, Microsoft also has a branch embedded computing with Windows Embedded, which is the latest evolution Embedded Windows 7, which can be used for various mobile products such as GPS systems or autonomous touch pads.

And on this branch, here is a specific version for embedded systems in vehicles with Windows Automotive Embedded 7, now available. This particular version will enable automotive manufacturers and service providers to develop comprehensive infotainment systems may include voice commands, touch screens, communications Bluetooth headset, the interface manager of music content, navigation GPS, management of third party applications, all of which can interconnect with other devices.

Associated Microsoft technologies

It will even support Silverlight for Windows Embedded for creating interfaces 2D / 3D with rich language that can be tested and developed from a computer before being easily adapted to the target terminal. (more…)