Windows Embedded OS vs. Windows OS

[Benjals]

As some might know already, Microsoft has a service called DreamSpark which helps students and schools be supplied with software for free.

Just signing up with your education email address offers you various versions of Visual Studio, Windows servers and Windows Embedded operating systems.

After googling the differences between embedded and normal operating systems I still wasn't completely sure on the difference, so I'm here to ask what the differences are and if it's okay to go ahead and install this on my main PC.

Edit: wrong area how do I move it

[Guest]

When most people talk about an embedded system, usually it is a system being run for a very specific purpose. A great example of this would be a wireless router or even a TiVo box, which runs on an embedded version of Linux if I remember correctly. Also, I believe most embedded systems run off of RAM, but I might be wrong with this one. You are not going to want Windows Embedded for a normal computer. Windows Server though, will run with a lot fewer problems, but I would still stick to normal Windows if I were you.