Howdy Campers – been a while – I’ve been on the road and visiting with customers over the last several months! its been nice to be in the community and talk with customers and partners. As you all know we’re in full swing with Windows Embedded Compact 7! Lots of new designs are already underway. We have...

Howdy, Campers! It’s been awhile since I’ve been on the airwaves… sorry about that – things get a little hectic over here in Microsoft Land! I wanted to let everyone know that Sean Liming , one of our Embedded MVP’s has published his latest book - “Professional’s Guide to Windows Embedded Standard 7...

  Olivier posts up about his attendance at Tech Days France next month. Looks like for the first time, there will be a track about Application development using Visual Studio tools, and Windows Embedded Platforms! very exciting. Tech Days is a Student and hobbyist event, so we’re bringing up the...

  Today is the first day of the Windows Embedded Americas Partner summit! a large collection of Windows Embedded Partners are here in San Francisco, CA to learn about upcoming programs, share ideas, and learn more about what Microsoft is doing to promote Windows Embedded. It’s great to see our partners...

  We sometimes get asked what we do in the embedded world for Manufacturing and Industrial Automation – well here’s your chance to hear about Windows Embedded for Manufacturing! Chris Muench and I will be hosting a webinar on September 17th specifically to talk about IA and MFG! We’ll talk about...

  Today at our inaugural Black Belt Bootcamp we spent the day talking about Windows Embedded CE, and all the great things that we have to offer for Real-Time, battery powered devices, etc. we talked about some of the things to come (insert NDA, so I can’t say more) then we rounded out the day talking...

  This week, we have our Black Belt Distributor Engineers in town for some deep-dive training, as well as some sessions with some of the Product management team. Today, we had lunch with Kevin Dallas, GM of the Windows Embedded Business Unit – Here’s Kevin now, sharing his vision for the Future...

  Mike just posted a great video, by Olivier Bloch , talking about Windows Embedded: From Sensors to Servers. Olivier shows off a CE device, that is the hard real-time control for a robot arm, as well as a WES device that’s the HMI for the system. the two communicate over a network, using DPWS discovery...

Well, campers, Tech Ed is underway… with our embedded precon yesterday, and all the sessions this week, to the booth in Technical Learning Center… there’s plenty of things to do. Here’s Dion, and the guys from Beckhoff, the makers of our new real-time “Schtick” demo… we were at the “yardhouse” … wonder...

Howdy all! I’m back online again, after some time prepping for upcoming events. One of which is Microsoft TechEd, May 11-15, 2009 in Los Angeles, CA! This is a great event to meet Microsoft folks, as well as industry experts, participate in a ton of learning sessions, and spend time with the Microsoft...

  Today we made the journey to Los Angeles, CA for the Microsoft Professional Developer’s Conference. Close to 6000 folks are converging on downtown LA as we speak! Windows Embedded is onsite in the Microsoft Pavilion – we’re nested in with other development tools, cool products, and otherwise fun...

  Hola Amigos!   I’m here in Mexico City visiting some of our partners. Very interesting city! (there’s like 20 million people here) I’ve been here before, but it’s been a really long time. I am much more familiar with the “tourist” parts of Mexico (Cancun, Puerto Vallarta, Cabo…). The city...

Mike hall has done it again! He’s demonstrated that GNU runs on Windows CE… single handedly tearing down the walls of the religious war between Windows and GNU/Linux… Glad that’s over!    Here’s Mike’s post!   R.I.P. Linux, R.I.P HAHA… we couldn’t resist this one!

So in case you missed it - Mike Hall has posted some fun about the upcoming PDC 2008 in Los Angeles... along with a video on engadget. Pretty funny, IMHO. He will not be at PDC, but I will, along with Dion Hutchings, the TPM for Windows Embedded Compact, and Cuong Pham, the TPM for Windows Embedded Standard...

so if you happened to read Mike Hall's Post about preparing for demos, and such. here's a picture after quite a while of preparing for demos in Olivier Bloch's room... Dion Hutchings, one of our Technical Product Managers was preparing for his Demo, Olivier was preparing for his, I was Preparing for...

Well, I'm finally coming up for air after TechEd in Orlando! Here's a pic from one of the sessions - Meet the Architect - a lunch chat with Mike Hall. in the picture are Olivier Bloch, Our new Developer Evangelist, Mike Hall Our Software Architect and Ilya Bukshteyn,the Director of Product Marketing...

So recently I visited Orlando, FL to attend the Tech Ed conference. I had the pain pleasure of working / speaking at both the developer and the IT conference. that meant TWO WEEKS in 90+ degree (F) temperatures, with something like 850% humidity! we had a GREAT time and spoke to many developers and IT...

As announced at the Tech Ed Developers' conference in Orlando - the Name for Windows XP Embedded Will be changing at it's next version - which was formally announced at the conference. OEM's and Distributors should have gotten notice from the Embedded Communications Extranet (ECE) as well. The product...