**Updated 3/26/09 with preface [The following article is authored by one of the Windows Embedded MVPs (Most Valuable Professionals). Our MVPs have a heavy background in Embedded systems and are a great repository of information on Windows Embedded products. We’re providing this space on our team blog as a service to our readers by allowing MVPs to share some of their knowledge with the rest of the...

If you have tried out our recently released Windows Embedded Standard product, thank you and we hope you are enjoying it. One more breakthrough in this release is localization. Localization can be done at different levels: the whole product, or just the tool kits, or just the documentation (the one in the product and/or the one on MSDN). After much consideration, in this release, we decided to localize...

As we all know, when we run an application on a computer, the operating system will first load it into memory from a hard drive and then execute instructions and do calculations based on data in the memory. Most operating systems (such as XP, Vista) allow people to do multiple tasks simultaneously and load several applications into memory at the same time. To enable this feature only part of the code...

In the midst of various holiday vacations, the Windows Embedded team has scheduled a live MSDN Chat on Tuesday, December 9th from 10-11am PST - we hope you can make it!  Since we launched Windows Embedded Standard 2009 a few weeks ago, we are excited to hear your feedback and thoughts on the new release.  If you haven't gotten your hands on the product yet, you can download a trial version...

Technically there are no WES devices shipping yet since Windows Embedded Standard 2009 only just launched the other week, so these devices below are a flavor of Windows Embedded. If the title of this blog only called out XPe without mentioning WES as well, I'd probably have someone from Marketing sending me a polite reminder that WES is the new hotness and to showcase those devices. :-) We'll do that...

In one of my previous posts I mentioned that ESC Boston was taking place in October. Our teams, along with the help of some internal partner teams, delivered 6 sessions on Windows Embedded Standard. Now, according to the content owner's blog, the PowerPoint slide decks are available to all to download and review, even if you did not attend the conference. Take a look at Olivier's blog for more details...

The November 2008 - Service Pack 3 for Windows XP Embedded Optional Update   is now available on the ECE for Microsoft® Windows® XP Embedded with Service Pack 2 and/or Feature Pack 2007. Windows XP Embedded Service Pack 3 (SP3) is a roll-up of hot-fixes and security updates Microsoft has released since Service Pack 2 (SP2). It also includes select out-of-band releases, and a small number...

**Updated 3/26/09 with preface [The following article is authored by one of the Windows Embedded MVPs (Most Valuable Professionals). Our MVPs have a heavy background in Embedded systems and are a great repository of information on Windows Embedded products. We’re providing this space on our team blog as a service to our readers by allowing MVPs to share some of their knowledge with the rest of the...

Today is my first day back in the office after participating in TechEd EMEA last week in Barcelona. I am starting to get groggy from jet lag, but wanted to put down a few details about my experience there. This year was the first year that we had a dedicated Embedded track and we had a total of 29 sessions (breakout presentations,interactive sessions, labs and panel discussions) covering Windows Embedded...

Have you noticed that there is a huge amount of Windows XP Embedded related content on the public internet? Have you also discovered that it can be hard to find, collect and organize the information you need to answer XPE questions and solve XPE problems? Did you ever wish for a "Top Level" reference document that ties together all the myriad resources? A single document that you can search to...

So, you’ve got a device that’s running Windows Embedded, but you can’t remember exactly which version of XPe or WES the image was built with.  Is there some way to check what version of Windows Embedded the device is running? There sure is! The version information for Windows Embedded is located in the following three registry entries: Now you’re probably saying to yourself...

Friday, the 2 nd day of TechEd China in Beijing, I was packed with sessions back to back. 2 breakout sessions, 1 instructor led lab, 1 hour of booth duty. Almost had no time for a lunch, but felt happy as always to see new faces, and hear new questions. In this TechEd, other than wearing the hat as the “expert” on Windows Embedded, I am also wearing the hat as one of the authors of the second...