Windows Embedded Blog

From Dr.Dobb's Portal - In a move to bring more speed, drivers and future applications to its new line of VIA! djII digital music servers, Elan Home Systems has switched from a Linux-based platform to one built on Microsoft Windows XPE (embedded) operating...

Do you have tough technical questions regarding Windows CE 5.0 for which you're seeking answers? Do you want to tap into the deep knowledge of the talented Microsoft Embedded Devices Group members? If so, please join us for a live Windows CE 5.0 chat...

There's an update available that adds support for .NET Compact Framework 2.0 SP1 to Windows CE 4.2 and Windows CE 5.0 development tools - here's a link to the download page . From the download page here's what's added. Added support for WindowsCE 4.2...

We've been delivering Windows XP Embedded labs at a number of conferences dating back to the initial release of Windows XP Embedded in 2001, in many cases the labs were configured to run on PCs that have two partitions, the first partition boots Windows...

Check out the interview with Barry Bond , architect (and developer) on the ARM based Device Emulator for Windows CE and Windows Mobile - interview is now available for viewing on MSDN Channel 9 . - Mike

WindowsForDevices has been running a Windows CE Shared Source Contest - people taking part in the competition were challenged to build a cool device using the USB WebCam Shared Source driver and the Windows CE DVR engine - more information about the competition...

When I was at MEDC Malaysia with Loke and the MEDC team I noticed the new moon looked different to the new moon we typically see in Seattle and in the UK - the UK/Seattle new moon is just like the Dreamworks logo (see first image below) but, when in Malaysia...

Yesterday, Jason Stolarczyk, Dan Javnozon, and Mike Hall (yep, that's me!) headed for LinuxWorld - we took over part of Jillians close to the Moscone Center (location of the conference) - interestingly, none of the well big/known Linux players were at...

Jason Browne, a software developer at bSquare has now created a blog (hoorah!) - the blog is going to be focused on the next release of Windows CE, version 6.0 which is planned to be released this calendar year. So far Jason has provided information on...

The Windows XP Embedded SP2 Feature Pack CTP (Community Tech Preview) was released to the web in July, if you've downloaded the CTP and have any comments or feedback you can submit this directly through the Windows XP Embedded Connect Site . - Mike

When writing a managed application today against a debug (or retail) Windows CE 5.0 device (using Visual Studio 2005) you need to run two applications on your target device (conmanclient2 and cmaccept) before connecting VS to your target - for native...

You are probably wondering why the blog appears to be quieter than normal - Over the last few weeks and over the next couple of weeks I'm working on a number of CE 6.0 virtual labs, technical articles, interviews with people from across the CE team to...

This is awesome, for the second year running the University of Florida have won the AUV (Autonomous Underwater Vehicle) Competition. Click here to get the final standings from the competition. The AUV from the University of Florida is running Windows...

If you are attending LinuxWorld in SFO on August 16th why not come along to Jillian's @ the Metreon from 6pm - 8pm (just across the street from the conference center) to chow down on some Penguin Chicken Wings and talk about embedded operating systems...

We have a Windows CE 5.0 and CE 6.0 Beta MSDN Online Chat coming up - this is a great opportunity for you to bring your Windows CE questions, either for the currently shipping release of Windows CE 5.0 or the upcoming release of CE 6.0. More information...

We have a Windows XP Embedded Feature Pack discussion coming up on MSDN - so mark your calendars and bring your Feature Pack questions! - Some information about the feature pack "Features" can be found on the Windows Embedded Blog . Chat Date: August...

Windows CE has been shipping with Shared Source for some time now (at least since Windows CE 3.0 which shipped way back in 2000 ) and perhaps even earlier if you consider the BSP code that shipped with Windows CE 2.0 (1997) for devices like ODO (the Hitachi...