Check out the new virtual lab that has gone live on the MSDN Virtual Lab site. This provides a way for you to play with the Windows Embedded Standard 2009 tools to build your own run-time image with some of the latest features, using the step-by-step guide.  The lab takes 90 minutes to run through, but you can pause and re-start it as much as like. Much better to have a hands-on experience rather...

I’m a Program Manager (PM) on the Windows Embedded team and am in the process of investigating how our customers use Component Designer to help the process of building their images. Component Designer is a very versatile tool and I’d love to get some feedback on how you use it. This feedback will be invaluable in our future planning. Some potential topics of interest are: What do you componentize...

Nick has created the third video in our series on new features in Windows Embedded Standard 2009. You can view the rest of the series through the links, Part 1 & Part 2 . This screen cast focuses on enhancements to the VPC macro components, and the Visual Style component, and demos the Silverlight 1.0 component. Windows Embedded Standard- A Look At Some New Features (Part 3) - Lynda Technorati...

An MCP exam for Windows Embedded Standard 2009 has been in the works for some time now, and I am pleased to be able to say that this will become available in February. There has never been an exam for an Embedded Windows product up until now, although there has been one for Windows Embedded CE . The new MCP exam for Windows Embedded Standard, Exam 70-577, is scheduled to launch in English on February...

New users of our product might be interested in the final two screen casts in the series on navigating the tool suite of Windows Embedded Standard 2009. This blog talked about the first tool, Target Designer, and these latest screen casts will take the user through all the menus and options in Component Designer and Component Database Manager. Navigating Component Designer Navigating Windows...

The January 2009 Windows XP Embedded and Windows Embedded Standard Security Updates - Product Download is now available on the ECE for Microsoft® Windows® XP Embedded with Service Pack 2, Feature Pack 2007, Update Rollup 1.0, Service Pack 3 and/or Windows® Embedded Standard 2009. The downloads are cumulative and can be applied to runtimes that include the components that support the...

**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...

As I was browsing all things embedded this morning I stumbled across this video tutorial on Windows Embedded, in Russian. Coincidentally the Russian version of the Windows Embedded Standard 2009 MSDN content went live today as well. You can review the content here . This is the second of the localized versions of the MSDN content for Windows Embedded Standard 2009 (the first was Japanese...

Back in the fall of 2007 (see the comments from ShermB and me on this blog ), or even earlier back in 2005 (see this blog from Andy), we were talking about making a Windows XP Embedded hobbyist SKU for our hobbyist community. It still hasn’t happened yet given all the complications surrounding this product. (You can find the general Windows Embedded hobbyist program “SPARK Your Imagination”...

**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...

Windows 7 Beta (the next version of the Windows desktop operating system) is available! It was released on Friday and, if you are interested in taking it for a spin, you can download it from here . This blog link from the Windows 7 product team has some details on downloading and installing it. Note: The next version of the embedded Windows product will be based on Windows 7 binaries (code named...

The December 2008 Windows XP Embedded and Windows Embedded Standard Out Of Band Security Update for KB960714 (MS08-078) is now available on the ECE for Microsoft® Windows® XP Embedded with Service Pack 2, Feature Pack 2007, Update Rollup 1.0, Service Pack 3 and/or Windows® Embedded Standard 2009. This update is in addition to December 2008 Security Update release. This December out of...