Edited sentence: It was originally designed and built by a small team of engineers in Microsoft's Windows Deployment team, including Vijay Jayaseelan, Ryan Burkhardt, and Richard Bond.Many people on the Internet have created customized WinPE boot CDs and included other third-party applications for different uses.The newest version is 3.0, based on the Windows 7 build 7100 kernel.The package can be used for developer testing or as a recovery CD/DVD for system administrators.Version 2.0 introduced a number of improvements and extended the availability of WinPE to all customers, not just corporate enterprise customers by downloading and installing Microsoft's Windows Automated Installation Kit (WAIK)