Puncher:

XP embedded is everywhere - your life (and certainly your money) may even depend upon it. Some medical systems, widespread use in Industrial automation, POS, ATM's, among others, all use XP embedded.

While you may be right here, please do not confuse B2B with B2C products here ... if give an option, I would never go for a product that relies on XP embedded --- but don't kill me here: I am strictly speaking for myself! 

Completely your choice and I would never argue otherwise............... what I would say is if all detractors (and we have a good few) managed to avoid XP altogether, in all its incarnations, they may well find themselves living in a cave😁

I might be out of my depth here, but isn't Beoport Windows based? That seems to work fine.

Andy T.

PhilLondon:

Hopefully the BS5 will not give us the blue screen of death... I often see ATM and Airport displays that need a reboot!

................. and compare that to those that you have seen/used that didn't.

sorry, but that attitude only shows that one has lowered expectations to software/middleware/OS. Any crash should be considered intolerable! 

BIRD ONE:

Only decent thing our ancestors ever did. Come on, I’ll show you. 

[BIRD flies them both off] 

ARTHUR:
I want to go down, not up. 

BIRD ONE:
There. You see it? 

ARTHUR:
What? 

BIRD ONE:
Look up, look up! 

ARTHUR:
You’re hurting my neck. 

BIRD ONE:
Soon be over. Look! That’s it. 

ARTHUR:
But - It looks like… like… just like a plastic cup! Hanging in the sky. It’s…It’s about a mile long. 

BIRD ONE:
Looks like plastic. Carved from solid marble there. 

ARTHUR:
But the weight of it! What’s supporting it?! What keeps it there?! 

BIRD ONE:
Art. 

ARTHUR:
Art?! 

BIRD ONE:
It’s only part of the main statue - fifteen miles high. It’s directly behind us, but I’ll circle round in a moment. 

When one is constructing a statue of a man throwing a cup, clearly the cup 'must be there'.  Clearly, the BeoSound 5 doesn't use a touch-screen...so perhaps it didn't need to be there, or perhaps its presence detracted from some other critical element.  

Art.  That's why.

Thanks Douglas...for everything. 

Puncher: