CE-based Terminals Get New Browser and OS

Windows-based Terminal (WBT) Standard version 1.5, a version of Windows CE specifically for Windows-based Terminals, has been released to OEMs. Unlike the prior version, WBT Standard 1.5 allows OEMs to provide a browser on Windows-based Terminals, allowing these terminals to be used as a client for Web-based applications. The new version also allows terminals to support the latest features of Windows 2000 Terminal Services-such as remote printer support and more efficient client-server protocols.

Introduction to Terminal Services

Windows Terminal Services (TS), available in the Terminal Server Edition of Windows NT 4.0 and built into Windows 2000, lets an application run on a Windows server, while receiving its input from and displaying its output on a separate client machine or terminal.

Windows-based terminals and similar “thin clients” that run on other operating systems are simple, low-cost-of-ownership devices that require little management and rely entirely on networked servers for applications and data. Often built without disk drives, terminals boot from an embedded operating system stored in a read-only memory (ROM) chip.