Before joining Microsoft I worked for almost 8 years in the automotive industry developing various embedded devices. One fascinating and not generally known aspect of automotive electronics is in-vehicle networks. In-vehicle networks enable communication among distributed systems and at the same time provide a cost effective replacement of the wiring harness required to control every single device...

Overview HME ( Home Media Ecosystem ) is new with Windows Media Player 11 . This feature allows a Windows-based system to serve streaming media to client devices, which can be Windows Vista systems or other embedded devices (such as an Xbox 360). HME is very useful for embedded applications, as it turns Windows Media Player into the core of a set-top-box system. HME is available for Windows XP Embeded...

This is a continuation of the article I wrote here . This part focuses on the utilities that you can add to your toolbox which will help you ensure quality for drivers for which you do have source code access. Both of these tools are used during compile time of your driver and are available from the Windows Driver Kit Development kit. Please see the first article (link above) to find out how to procure...

Thanks to everyone who joined us for our last chat session on June 12 th . If you weren’t able to make it, you can now read the transcript of the chat on the MSDN site here . We had a several questions about the new features available in the Windows XP Embedded Update Rollup 1.0 release, a range of general XPe questions, and several suggestions to be considered for future projects. Our product teams...

When I entered the speakers party this evening (well, Seattle's this morning), I was congratulated by Qi the local Content Owner that I won the 1st place among lab speakers according to participants survey. WOW, that was really surprising and exciting for me! I know I did my home work preparing the labs, walked through the labs with the students and provided background info of the labs while we waiting...

I fe el great that I finally finished my 1st day of MEDC China. You won't believe that I actually did 2 presentations (one on XPe Intro and one on XPe F uture) and 2 instructor-led labs (Componentization E2E and XPe I ntro) in a row this afternoon, plus the keynote demo in the morning. In that keynote demo, quite a few colleagues from US went up stage. They most managed to at least say "hello" in...

The June 2007 Microsoft Windows XP Embedded Supplement Updates are now available on the Mobile & Embedded Communications Extranet (ECE) for Microsoft® Windows® XP Embedded Service Pack 2, and Feature Pack 2007, as well as Microsoft® Windows® Embedded for Point of Service (WEPOS) 1.0 and 1.1 products. Includes Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional for use with the Desktop Installer Tool Updates for...

While Lynda and Randy finished up their MEDC India trip, I have started my MEDC China trip over the weekend. I have had a busy Monday and Tuesday here in Beijing, meeting internal partners, such as the University Relationship teams in Microsoft Research Asia Lab ( http://research.microsoft.com/aboutmsr/labs/asia/default.aspx ) , & the DPE (Developer and Platform Evangelism) folks of MS China. It...

Techmela is taking place currently in Mumbai. This event combines 3 Microsoft events, namely MEDC, TechEDdand ITG, into one "uber-event". Today I was scheduled to deliver one MEDC session for folks in the Embedded Device track (Componentizing Applications for XPe), however I alling ill. It was easy enough, merely introducing each speaker and giving a brief synopsis of what their session was about...

I have just finished up the first day of TechMela - http://www.techmela.com (or MEDC) in India. This year is the first time that MEDC has traveled to India and the event is being combined with 2 other Microsoft events in Mumbai, specifically at the Rennaissance Mumbai Hotel and Convention Center on the edge of Lake Powai. There are tracks available to delegates, namely: - Application Platform -...

While rooting around in my mail folders, I found an item from last year that makes a great follow-up to my Fundamental Parallelism posting. In March of '06 Herb Sutter gave a talk at the renowned Palo Alto Research Center titled "Software and the Concurrency Revolution" . In this one hour presentation, Herb starts with an overview of the background and the issues involved in concurrency. He then goes...

The Update Rollup 1.0 for Windows XP Embedded is now available for download on the Mobile & Embedded Communications Extranet (ECE). Update Rollup 1.0 extends Windows XP Embedded Service Pack 2 Feature Pack 2007 providing developers with new Windows Vista® features including Internet Explorer® 7, Windows Media® Player 11, Remote Desktop Connection 6.0, Microsoft® .NET Framework 3.0, and User...