Windows XP: Embedded 2014

Windows XP Embedded 2014 was Microsofts response on the end of support of Windows XP.

The OS was a full recreation of Microsoft's popular OS. It came with two main themes: Luna and Metroluna.

It came with all the classic games, a new revamped 3D Space Cadet Pinball, Purple Place and a Dos-Promt for people who like the old dos.

Releases
Build 1420:

It was shown off at the Microsoft Conference 2012, and was presented on YouTube.

The build looked extremely different to the final build.

The main difference was in the themes.

There were only two of them being Metro and Classic

It was a shell of the OS. and crashed multiple times during the conference.

Build 1450:

This build shaped the look of the OS.

It mainly added more themes and made the OS more appealing to the eye. Multiple bugs were squashed.

It was shown of on Twitter and Re-Posters quickly uploaded it to youtube. They even showed of a new BSOD

called the Red Screen of Death.

It was for very critial errors like system files missing or the System Operation being shut down. It looked very simmaler to the Windows Longhorn RSOD.

Build 1523:

This Build is widely know as the Bugfix update.

It fixed many bugs and made the system more user friendly. It also added a Startup sound, which was a mashup of the Windows 7 and Windows 8 unused startup sound, that can be found in the files to this day.

Build 1569:

This build added a new Registry Editor, and also removed Windows Powershell. It could be acsessed deep into the Sys32 folder. The main reason they removed Powershell is because of the lack of people using it since most people used the Command Promt instead. The New REG-EDIT application was called Registry Changer. It could to more things than the editor. Reg-edit could still be acsessed with the run command or in the Windows folder. It dident work very well because Microsoft abandoned it while making the OS, and not finishing it because of the new program.

Build 1589:

This version mainly added more themes.

It added the Longhorn, Metroclassic, Aero, Luna and Da Vinci (Da-Vinci was a modernised version of the Microsoft Plus pack.)

It also squashed many bugs and added Windows Media Player 13.0.9800.17041 and Movie Maker 16.4.3538.1909.

Windows Media Center was back in, but it was a port of the Windows 7 one.

Build 1600:

This build added a new Paint program called

Microsoft Painter.

Painter was a version of Paint that was optimised for the system. It was optimised to have themes.

For example applying the Luna Theme would give MSPAINTER the WindowsXP paint look.

You could start MSPAINTER in run, but you could also run MSPAINT with the line

microsoftpaint.exe

Build 1609:

This build mainly cleaned up some mistakes the developers made and also added some backrounds.

The default one would be the Windows XP background, but if you would apply, for example Aero it would put on the Windows Blackcomb, Vienna, Windows 7 beta fish background.