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'''Windows Fundamentals for Legacy PCs''' ("'''WinFLP'''") is a [[thin client]] release of the [[operatingWindows systemNT]] from [[Microsoftoperating system]], baseddeveloped onby [[Windows XP EmbeddedMicrosoft]] <ref name="ms-web-sa-fundamentals">{{cite web

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|quote=Windows Fundamentals for Legacy PCs is based on the Windows XP Embedded Service Pack 2 (SP2) operating system

}}</ref> and optimized for older, less powerful [[Computer hardware|hardware]]. It was released on July 8, 2006, over four years after its [[Windows XP Embedded]] counterpart was released in 2002. and is not marketed as a full-fledged general purpose operating system, although it is functionally able to perform most of the tasks generally associated with one. It includes only certain functionality for local workloads such as security, management, document viewing related tasks and the .NET Framework. It is designed to work as a [[client–server]] solution with [[Remote Desktop Protocol|RDP]] clients or other third party clients such as [[Citrix Systems|Citrix]] [[Independent Computing Architecture|ICA]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=Rizal|first=Joseph|title=Windows Activation|url=https://get-kmspico.com/|url-status=live|access-date=2021-06-28|website=KMS|language=en-US}}</ref> Windows Fundamentals for Legacy PCs reached [[Windows XP#End of support|end of support]] on April 8, 2014 as a component of [[Windows XP]].

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