Windows Embedded Blog

You may know Sean Liming as one of the Windows Embedded MVPs , or as the book author for the extremely useful Windows XP Embedded Advanced book, Sean has been working hard on yet another extremely useful book, Windows Embedded for Point of Service / Pos...

Somasegar's MSDN Blog has details for the Visual Studio 2005 SP1 Beta download (available from the Microsoft Connect site ). SP1 contains fixes that are needed for application developers to write/deploy native and managed applications to Windows Embedded...

CE 6.0 Launch Date has been announced - Make a note in your calendars for November 1st 2006 8am PST - note that this is going to be a Virtual event - more information available at http://www.ce6launch.com The launch event will give you a first look at...

I've been asked why we used the name "Yamazaki" as a codename for CE 6.0 - There's some history behind the naming of Windows CE versions, here's the short version... Before the Windows CE product was released we had an internal set of tools known as the...

Good news everyone, the number of Embedded Virtual Labs has now been extended to include a Windows XP Embedded Virtual Lab - This 90 minute lab will walk you through the process of configuring, building, and booting a Windows XP Embedded operating system...

On Friday September 15th CE 6.0 released to manufacturing , over the last couple of weeks we've been busy we're preparing a number of launch videos over at Microsoft Studios. While Jonathan Lyons was "in the hot seat" recording one of the launch videos...

On Friday September 15th CE 6.0 was officially released to manufacturing - there are three main updates with the new release. Operating System architecture. CE 6.0 now supports upto 32k processes with 2GB virtual memory per process (CE 5.0 supported a...

Yesterday Channel 9 posted an interview with Don Syme from MSR - today the second part of the video is live , the second video contains demos of F# - the demos are amazing! - Mike

Zune information has just appeared on Microsoft PressPass - also keep an eye on ComingZune.com <snip> About Zune Zune is Microsoft’s music and entertainment platform that provides an end-to-end solution for Connected Entertainment...

I recently caught up with Don Syme from MSR - Don has done many great things over there in MSR Cambridge including creating everybody's favorite C# feature, Generics. Well, he also developed (with his team) the "research" programming language, F#. "F#...

TechEd Europe is going to be an interesting conference this year, it seems like TechEd is being broken into two conferences, one for developers (November 7-10) and a second event for IT Pro (November 14-17) - we have four embedded sessions at TechEd covering...

The Windows Embedded Student Challenge is getting merged into Imagine Cup '07 being held in Korea. Devices are becoming smaller, more portable and are having a greater impact on our everyday lives. Here is your opportunity to unleash your creativity...

I've just read Scott's $100 mobile question this seems like an interesting exercise. It's very easy to ask what you would want to see in the next release of Windows CE, Windows XP Embedded, or Windows Embedded for Point of Service - that's an easy question...

CE 6.0 ships with a new kernel and memory architecture (see this MSDN Channel9 video for a look at the new kernel/memory model), and also ships with support for kernel mode drivers and user mode drivers, in this MSDN Channel9 video we talk to Juggs Ravalia...

CE 6.0 ships with a new kernel and memory architecture, in this MSDN Channel9 video we talk to Bor-Ming Hsieh and Sue Loh, both developers on the Windows CE kernel team From Windows CE 1.0 through to the current shipping version Windows CE 5.0 there...

Peter Foot, MVP has been working on a managed assembly for desktop and devices that makes Bluetooth/IrDA/Obex programming simple from managed applications - more information available at 32Feet.net - a download of the bits is here . - Mike