Last week at the Embedded Systems Conference Microsoft unveiled a road map that outlines new names for the Windows Embedded Business products and announced plans for new solutions in key device categories. Our General Manager, Kevin Dallas, stated that the goal is “to present the evolving Windows Embedded product family in an intuitive fashion, making it easier for our customers to choose the right...

Do your part for environment and a better internet ecosystem! To commemorate Earth Day, April 22 nd , Internet Explorer has launched an environmentally themed campaign called Carbon Grove . Windows Internet Explorer has partnered with a carbon reduction reminder service to help increase awareness around one of Earth’s most precious resources. You can reduce your carbon footprint and have fun growing...

I didn’t know yesterday, April 22, was the Earth Day of 2008 until I received the April Newsletter from Imagine Cup late last night. But I did turn off the light as usual when I left the office. That newsletter also brought me to the lively Microsoft Environment Web Site . I recall I ran into an internal blog from Microsoft's new Chief Environment Strategist Rob Bernard the other day. He was talking...

Please join our product team for a discussion tomorrow where we’ll cover some key hot topics from the XPe forums and newsgroups. This chat will take place from 10am-11am (PST). We will of course still welcome ANY question related to XP Embedded during the chat as we will have lots of the product team on board to help answer all questions and respond to comments. You can join the chat at...

The Embedded team has been working hard on some exciting development projects. We gave consideration to the optional updates we might provide, and found there weren’t many candidates for consideration at this time, and the value-add of those candidates didn’t stack up against keeping our resources on our current efforts. Please watch this space for more information on these projects in the coming weeks...

The April 2008 Windows XP Embedded Security Updates are now available on the Mobile & Embedded Communications Extranet (ECE) for Microsoft® Windows® XP Embedded Service Pack 2, Feature Pack 2007, and Update Rollup 1.0. April 2008 Windows XP Embedded Security Updates The April 2008 Windows XP Embedded Security Updates are cumulative and include updates for the Windows Component Database...

Spring is the perfect season for chatting! Please join our product team for a discussion where we’ll cover some key hot topics from the XPe forums and newsgroups. This chat will take place on Thursday, April 24 th from 10am-11am (PST). We will of course still welcome ANY question related to XP Embedded during the chat as we will have lots of the product team on board to help answer all questions...

Well, I suppose it is really day 1/2, as today's sessions were mostly pre-conference sessions for most participants. However, the Windows Embedded team started our regular conference series of breakout sessions and things seem to be going smoothly. Mike Hall started off the day with his usual cheer - quite a feat at 8-30am <grin>. He showed everyone "How to Become a Windows Embedded CE developer...

One of XP Embedded's partners, Ampro, achieved Silver Level status recently. Windows Embedded partners are ranked as either Partners, Silver Level Partners or Gold Level Partners. Ampro is a leading supplier of board-level embedded computers. They chose Windows XP Embedded and Windows CE for their boards because these products "reduce development costs and speed time-to-revenue for OEMs creating...

The latest production tool from Datasound Laboratories shaves hours from typical production cycles. According to their advert: " Gone are the days of time-consuming serial programming; now you can program up to 10 storage devices at once, in seconds! " If you're not involved in the production side of things, the question of 'how to I transfer my XPe image to dozens or hundreds of flash devices...

As part of an ongoing effort on the Windows Embedded team, our management encourages us to seek out new relevant devices to our industry to get a chance to understand these new devices and see how our products may apply. One of these new gadgets that I felt would apply was the Asus EEE PC ! After ordering one, and patiently waiting, it has finally arrived! I’m going to use the steps in my previous...

Last Friday, our fearless Group Program Manager, Mike Glass held the first PM Offsite for Windows Embedded, this offsite was designed for the PM team to take a break from our “day jobs” and get into deep technical depth into specific technologies the PM’s on our team are working on. One specific topic that interested me was the presentation by Punit Java about how to make a bootable USB WinPE 2...