As the growing popularity in this vertical segment shows, Windows Embedded Standard is a very compelling operating system for thin clients. This is especially true, if the clients are not only used to access a Terminal Server farm, however also need to provide local computing capabilities, . Some common scenarios for these devices with local applications include IP Phone or other streaming media applications...

The July 2009 Windows XP Embedded and Windows Embedded Standard Security Updates - Product Download is now available on the ECE for Windows® Embedded Standard 2009 and/or Microsoft® Windows® XP Embedded with Service Pack 2, Feature Pack 2007, Update Rollup 1.0 and Service Pack 3. These updates can be applied to run-times. This download is a cumulative update which incorporates all updates from prior...

We are very pleased to announce that we have recently created a TechNet Forum for POSReady,  one of the products in our embedded family. You can find the link here: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/posready . The POSReady forum provides you an opportunity to join a community of your fellow POSReady IT Pros and alike to ask your questions , answer questions from others , share knowledge...

[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 community.] In its disguise as...

With all the buzz around Windows 7 in the last week or two, this is a good opportunity to look around at resources available to Developers and IT Pros to get ready. Here’s two resources that can help you – “Windows Related On-Demand webcasts for Windows 7” and “Ready. Set. 7”. The Windows Related On-Demand webcasts cover 100-300 level topics such as Windows 7 Manageability Solutions (Level 300...

Perhaps you need to launch an msi to install an application during FBA, and you create and FBA Generic Command in a custom component or in the Extra Resources node of Target Designer to do so. It could look something like this: Name : MyMSI Type : FBGenCmd Extended Properties Arguments       : /i C:\WINDOWS\mymsi.msi /passive ComponentVSGUID : {00000000-0000-0000-0000...

[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 community.] Embedded devices...

[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 community.] In some of my recent...

[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 community.] There are projects...

An issue was found with the April Security database update for Windows Embedded Standard 2009. Although database updates are not usually provided in odd-numbered months, the Embedded Windows July Security Update DVD image will include a database update for Windows Embedded Standard 2009 which corrects this issue. There are no database updates for other platforms, and as usual, the July security updates...

** Updated at 5:47pm, 7/1/09: Correction-The June updates included both the componentized updates for applying to the database, as well as the updates in the \DQI folders that can be applied to runtimes. The downloads in the WindowsEmbeddedStandard\ Windows folder are only to be used with the Component Database within the Target Designer toolkit in the Windows Embedded Standard release. The...