15:13 08.12.2005 | All news from "Hardware"
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Microsoft has announced that their . This POS platform is already in use among a few thousands machines in Europe and Asia:
REDMOND, Wash. - Dec. 7, 2005 - Microsoft Corp. today announced that McDonald's Corp. has selected Microsoft® Windows® XP Embedded as the foundation for its new point-of-sale (POS) platform. McDonald's selected Windows XP Embedded due to its exceptional performance and unique retail design, and the ability to work with a single vendor that can provide a wide breadth of solutions for its restaurants. To date, McDonald's has deployed Windows XP Embedded to several thousand devices across Europe and Asia and plans to eventually roll out the Microsoft operating system for its worldwide standard POS platform.
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REDMOND, Wash. - Dec. 7, 2005 - Microsoft Corp. today announced that McDonald's Corp. has selected Microsoft® Windows® XP Embedded as the foundation for its new point-of-sale (POS) platform. McDonald's selected Windows XP Embedded due to its exceptional performance and unique retail design, and the ability to work with a single vendor that can provide a wide breadth of solutions for its restaurants. To date, McDonald's has deployed Windows XP Embedded to several thousand devices across Europe and Asia and plans to eventually roll out the Microsoft operating system for its worldwide standard POS platform.
By standardizing on Windows XP Embedded, along with one POS application, McDonald's will be able to further streamline operations and make restaurant crew training faster and more cost-effective while easily integrating and maintaining devices from multiple POS hardware providers.
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