Of Course I worry about the operating system on ANY processor!
If Microsoft now plans to replace the embedded OS on Factory Control systems, petrol pumps and anything where the computation can mechanically influence the real world with some flavour of windows, it is time to get very worried. As an engineer I would only want to replace a proprietary Embedded operating system of old (and there are many) with either a newer version of the old system (never change a running system) or go Open Source.
Embedded Software is an area where Microsoft has always been weak. I think only Excel Sheet Executives would actually want to try such a system, as Windows Programmers are cheaper per unit time than VxWorks or Linux or whatever Programmers. Be Warned! You will loose more on the roundabouts of rollout of an unknown platform with more hours of bugfixing the Architecture than you will have saved on the swings of cheaper coders.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
