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FUD

This is FUD. It's pretty obvious that things like medical equipment, building controls, etc, are NOT running standard Windows XP (2000, NT, or any desktop OS), but the very well designed Windows CE. In the embedded real-time OS world, you basically have Vxworks, Windows CE, and a handful of others, and Windows CE is a viable, and yes, stable option.

Windows CE is also "open source"

http://www.windowsfordevices.com/news/NS2632317407.html

I'm sorry, but Windows CE is stable, and secure. As to your last points, Windows CE is frequently used on Satellites produced by companies to be launched into orbit.

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