Feature Pack 2007 RTM'd! The Eval version is available for download right now from the download center. The Retail version is winding its way through the processes to be posted to the OEM Secure site. The bits are the same, the license wrapped around them is different, so if you can't wait you can at least preview the final build for Eval, but you'll have to uninstall and revert back to SP2 and...

Windows XP Embedded Tools are 32 bit apps and are run as a wow64 process on a x64 installation of windows. When a wow64 process writes values containing %ProgramFiles% or %CommonProgramFiles% to the registry, the wow64 registry redirection logic remaps the values to %ProgramFiles(x86)% and %CommonProgramFiles(x86)% . XPe tools are no exception to this behavior. As a result, the registry hives...

Here’s an interesting survey of processors used for embedded products. The key points I gleaned from it are: 54% of the products use at least one 32bit processor. 27% of the products run "some flavor of Windows." Nearly all applications running above 100MHz run on a "high-end OS" (i.e. Windows and Linux). Software-development tool availability was reported, overwhelmingly, as the number...

Some of our customers enjoy more than one flavor of operating system in their shop, sometimes this may go to the extreme from Windows XP Embedded to the other end of the spectrum of Wind River. Wind River has put together a really nice blog network that picks up feeds from various blogging sites dedicated to the Wind River products, device scenarios and their customers. Here's a couple of interesting...

If you haven't registered for the virtual launch event on Nov 1, 2006 for Windows XP Embedded SP2 Feature Pack 2007, together with Windows Embedded CE 6.0, hurry up and register here now. Craig Mundie, Chief Research & Strategy Officer of Microsoft, will be the keynote speaker. The speech will be broadcast live from Microsoft Studios. There are two XPe sessions on demand for this launch event:...

XP Embedded Feature Pack 2007 introduces the new USB 2.0 Boot component, which makes it possible to boot a fully operational runtime from a USB thumbdrive, disk-on-key, uDOC, etc. So far, it appears to be working very well for quite a few people, and it certainly enables a lot more scenarios than were possible before - without requiring any of a multitude of hacks and third-party solutions needed to...

It seems like a lot of teams are eager to finish out the year with a flurry of releases. Well, the MOM (Microsoft Operations Manager) team also had an early Christmas present for the XP Embedded community in September- they released support for MOM 2005 SP1 Agent on XP Embedded systems. The team did not componentize their whole MOM Agent, but instead released a macro component that brings into a...

The second Community Tech Preview of Feature Pack 2007 was released last week. If you haven’t downloaded and tested it out, do it now and enjoy the exciting ride of new features and fixes added to it. More details can be found in this blog article . Our fourth chat on Feature Pack 2007 Community Tech Preview is just around the corner: Thursday (another four), Oct 19th, 2006, 10:00-11:00AM, PST...

With the advent of dual-core processors (and with even more cores on the way – Intel recently announced an *80*-core processor they hope to have in production within 5 years), I imagine some of you are probably asking how product licensing works. Some software licenses call out a maximum number of processors they’re licensed to run on, whereas others more generally talk about being installed on just...

After the hard work of the team in the last 2 months or so, here we are excited to announce the second Community Tech Preview (CTP) is available for download! Yes, it’s right on time! Up to date, we have around 1500 downloads of the first CTP and 60 bugs submitted by participants. Thank you! In this new CTP download, you’ll find these improvements (not an exhaustive list): General: - Improved...

Windows XP Embedded Image Difference Engine Evaluation Interesting title, huh! What am I supposed to do with such a thing?! You can upgrade your device from Service Pack 1 to Service Pack 2 or Feature Pack 2007. Not convinced yet? Just imagine that you can create one update package for all your operating system security updates and hotfixes, configuration changes and third-party application updates...

Lynda is too modest to post something about herself so I'll do it for her :-) The product team is writing a series of articles for WindowsForDevices about various aspects of the Feature Pack. If you've installed the TechPreview version then you're familiar with some of these technologies and the work that's gone into the FP. Lynda has posted the first article discussing the work she and her team...