The Silverlight for Windows Embedded (SWE) team now have an MSDN blog up and running, first post is live (welcome to the blog) – here’s a link to the blog . - Mike

Join John Coyne on Wednesday June 30th at 10AM PDT for a Webcast titled “The new ‘Standard’ in Embedded: Windows 7 Componentized for embedded devices” – click Here to register. - Mike

Windows desktop users can keep their PC up to date with the latest patches, updates, drivers, and technologies through Windows Update, but what about developers that are using Windows Embedded Tools to build embedded operating systems? – Typically, developers...

I’ve seen a couple of requests from people (obviously) that are asking for the CE6R3 or CE7 Tech Preview to support Silverlight for Windows Embedded with .NET Compact Framework API rather than Win32. Interestingly, Andy Wigley, a Device Application Development...

The Windows Embedded teams responsible for online content and documentation are looking for feedback from you to ensure that the content/documentation they build matches the needs of developers that are using our products – You can provide feedback by...

Here’s a video from WMPowerUser showing the Asus Eee Pad EP101TC 10” tablet running Windows Embedded Compact 7 . Here’s the specs (thanks to WMPowerUser). OS Windows Embedded Compact 7 Processor Nvidia Tegra 2 RAM 512 MB Storage 16, 32, 64 GB SSD Screen...

There’s a small technology event called Computex running this week in Taipei, one of the super interesting announcements to come out at the event is the immediate availability of Windows Embedded Compact 7 Community Technology Preview (which means you...

The Windows CE JDP team have just released a PowerToy for CE 6.0 called DevHealth60 – here’s a snip from the DevHealth60 whitepaper – This is a tool that can be used to monitor device memory usage or as the starting point for memory leak and other memory...

The PipeTerm utility binary was released to MSDN Code Gallery some time ago – this is useful if you are booting/running an o/s image in Virtual PC and want to capture serial debug output from the running o/s to a named pipe client running on the desktop...

MSDN Channel 9 have posted a video showing KIN (aka Pink) – go check out the video here on MSDN Channel 9 or go to the KIN web site to get more information. - Mike

Kurt Kennett has just released a new PowerToy to MSDN Code Gallery – the Powertoy is called DiskPrep – the tool can be used to create bootable media and transfer a Windows CE o/s image to the media – this could be something like USB Key, or even a .VHD...

Today at MIX 2010 the keynote contained a TON of content for Windows Phone 7 Series, including immediate availability of Windows Phone 7 Series developer tools CTP – Tools can be downloaded from here . Catch up on the MIX Keynote announcements on MSDN...

MSDN Channel 9 recently spent some time with the Windows Embedded team (the desktop/embedded team) discussing Windows Embedded past, present and future. The Windows Embedded Standard product is a componentized version of the desktop operating system ...

Windows Embedded CE 6.0 R3 has been released to the web – here’s a link to the download page Windows Embedded CE 6.0 R3 includes the following new features: • Silverlight for Windows Embedded The power of Silverlight brought to Windows Embedded CE to...

Today at ESC East (Boston) Kevin Dallas, the General Manager of the Windows Embedded Business presented a keynote presentation (I missed the keynote, was flying from Seattle to Boston) that covered a number of announcements (all are listed on the following...

I’m in Boston for Embedded Systems East (I will be on the Microsoft booth Wednesday morning, and presenting a session called “Windows Embedded: from sensors to servers” on Thursday). The session walks through hardware trends, software trends, user experience...

Here’s the list of sessions being presented in the Windows Embedded track at ESC Boston – these sessions are in the Windows Embedded Track. Introduction to the future of Windows Embedded CE Develop the user interface of the future for your Windows Embedded...

Join John Coyne and Chris Muench for a Webinar on September 17th to learn how a standards-based platform and familiar development environment can help you bring new industrial automation devices to market in minimum time and at the lowest possible cost...

Check out the Toshiba JournE touch multimedia tablet on Engadget   - The device has a 7 inch display, supports multiple codecs, including H.264, DivX, WMV, supports 802.11b/g Wifi, some of your favorite social applications including YouTube, FaceBook...

A preview of Windows Embedded Standard 2011 (based on Windows 7) is available for download from the Microsoft Connect site - http://connect.microsoft.com/windowsembedded . Windows Embedded Standard 2011 delivers the latest Windows 7 technologies to OEMs...

A couple of weeks ago I was in Cambridge/UK for business meetings – I arrived the day before meetings started to give me some time to shake off jetlag and walk around the city. The city has many of the landmarks you would expect from a typical English...

At ESC East (Boston Sept 21-24) you will have the opportunity to get hands on with Windows Embedded technologies and an Intel Atom based board. The board spec is: Low power Intel® Atom Z510 GHz processor 1 GB DDR2-533 on-board mini SD socket 160Gb 2.5...

Check out the blog post and video over on John Coyne’s blog , bSquare have just finished working on a touch screen enabled Coke vending machine. - Mike

Here’s a snapshot of the final day at Imagine Cup. Next year the Imagine Cup goes to Poland – more information here . - Mike

Check out this Engadget article – If Microsoft made toasters Interestingly the toaster has a Microsoft Dynamics logo on the side… Perhaps this is the best thing since sliced bread… - Mike