Windows Embedded Blog

Here's some questions for you... Why do you read blogs, and more specifically, why do you read Microsoft blogs ? Has your impression of Microsoft as a company changed from reading blogs and viewing MSDN Channel 9 or the video podcasts from MEDC...

TechEd Europe was a hoot – The TechEd conference team do an excellent job of looking after speakers and attendees – the TechEd team are like swans, looking graceful on the surface, but I bet they are flapping like mad under the surface – it was really...

Now, this is super cool, a keyboard that is made up of individual OLED screens, the image on each key can be changed on the fly for games, languages etc... Check it out on Engadget . - Mike

I caught up with the Scoble in Atlanta, you’ve probably heard about the new name for Longhorn, Windows Vista , take a look at the photo below, notice anything about the baseball cap he’s wearing ? – Mike

Now this is super cool - go to http://www.virtualearth.com - click on the "locate me" button and see what happens... - you can then do a local search of the area for gas, food etc... I'm sat in a team meeting in building 117 on Microsoft Campus, here...

Yesterday I caught up with Major Nelson from the XBOX team - we discussed XBOX 360 , processors, operating system (that's interesting!), game portability between XBOX and XBOX 360, pricing, availability, updates to XBOX Live, and a number of other things...

I've just arrived in Amsterdam, got checked into the hotel and headed straight for the RAI Conference center (about 10 minutes walk from the hotel) to start setting up hardware and software for the day one keynote (Tuesday morning). The direct flight...

It's 8am in Amsterdam and I'm back at the RAI conference center, keynote rehersals start at 10am today, I think my rehersal slot is at about 1pm, this gives me a few hours to catch up on e-mail, write some code, and perhaps drop into one of the pre-conference...

So, you're out for a meal with friends and need to split the bill, you need a quick and easy way of calculating how much everyone pays, and (if needed) how much the tip is going to be... I've just installed and - played with TipCalc - seems to work really...

A couple of days ago I sent out a link to a Smartphone “Tip” calculator , quite handy if you don’t want to be seen counting on your fingers or using napkins or slide rules to figure out how much tip to pay. This seems like a really useful, simple application...

Longhorn is going to be called "Windows Vista" - Checkout the Longhorn official naming video here It looks like Beta1 is going to be coming soon... Also, keep an eye on this page for more upcoming Windows Vista information - Beta 1 is due around...

Is Windows CE a real-time operating system? - There are many definitions of real time. In the context of the Windows Embedded family of operating systems, we use the definition that was adopted by the Open, Modular, Architecture Control (OMAC) user group...

Windows Automotive is ready to be released, check out the C|NET article for more details - I would also expect details to be posted to the Windows Automotive site . - Mike

Sorry, couldn’t resist this one… to show the displays of the Windows Mobile MC50 Symbol devices during the TechEd Europe keynote we used Wolf-Visions (see below) After the keynote the Wolf-Vision seemed to have a wool jacket draped over it… ...

Demos are working, devices are charging, I’ve had a Grande Vanilla Latte, and all is well… This is my first visit to Minneapolis, I like the mix of new and old architecture, here’s a couple of photo’s from around the town – it’s interesting to see...

I've just received an invitation on e-mail to "the largest virtualization conference in the world".... which in itself is fine, here's what I don't get... the event is being held in Las Vegas, what's wrong with that I hear you ask ? - well, it's a virtualization...

Yesterday I mentioned that there had been an outage on RIM's mail service - this doesn't seem to be an isolated incident, interestingly I don't see anything on the RIM web site about the outage, there are of course reports from 3rd party sites, including...

I spotted my first Caribou on the way to the World Wide Partner Conference today - very neat. - Mike

This has been around for a while, but I though this might be amusing enough to post out to the blog. You're working on a super cool electronics project and want to prototype something quickly, you need a bread-board, but the local electronics store...

Just seen that there's a Florida Mobile and Embedded User Group started up, first meeting is September 8th - more information should be available on the user group web site - Mike

Hey, check this out, the Moto Q has been announced - there's a flash demo of the device on the Motorola home page - does this look to be super cool or what ? - Mike

I've had some comments and e-mails asking about the Browser/Skin I'm using on my desktop ( image here ) - I've installed Windows Blinds from WinCustomize - the tool ships with a number of sample skins (I'm using XP Corona) - there are a ton of additional...

Since we've already kicked off the project to port Windows CE to the Gumstix, and hopefully also move that project over to a sumobot platform it's timely news that Cornell University have come 2nd in the World Championship using robots running Windows...

The Channel 9 crew have been back to interview the Virtual Earth team, there are some awesome new features, including "locate me" - watch the video here - Mike

Take a look at the CRN article on Windows Embedded for Point of Service - I gave a demo of WEPOS at last weeks MGB conference, it's really neat to be able to show a RPOS device using a barcode scanner and showing failover by unplugging one barcode scanner...