Windows Embedded POS Ready 2009 is Microsoft's embedded operating system, optimised for OEMs building POS solutions and enterprises using POS devices. The net-generation POS platform is a system designed to seamlessly connect POS solutions with peripherals, servers and services. Windows Embedded POS Ready 2009 accounted for 36% of retail and hospitality POS shipments in 2007. Ilya Bukshteyn, senior director of Windows Embedded Marketing at Microsoft said that Windows Embedded POS Ready 2009 is designed specifically to help the transition from transaction processing to enhanced customer service and relationship building.
The new Windows Embedded POS Ready 2009 platform will offers retailers and hospitality organisations a familiar next-generation solution that is easily deployed and remotely managed, and that provides new storage options lowering the total cost of ownership of POS devices.