Today Microsoft announced "Surface Computing" which is being developed by the Productivity and Extended Consumer Experiences Group (the same group that Embedded technologies lives in) - what is Surface Computing? to quote Tom Gibbons, VP of the division...

Do you have tough technical questions regarding Windows Embedded CE 6.0 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 chat and bring...

The Programming with the .NET Micro Framework book is now available to order online , if you want to get a feel for the contents of the book then you may be interested in taking a look at Chapter 4 online (hosted by the .NET Developer's Journal ) - Mike

The .NET Micro Framework book which is authored by Donald Thompson and Rob Miles is done and is being printed right now, perhaps it's time to head over to Amazon and place an order for the book . Book Description Learn how to use the Microsoft .NET Micro...

The Channel9 guys recently dropped into the Microsoft Robotics Studio team to take a look at CCR, DSS, VPL and other three letter things - take a look at the video here . - Mike

Windows Desktop (XP/Vista) and Windows Mobile have the benefit of being a well defined application platform, if you write an application to run on Windows Vista then you know that the same application will also run on another PC running Vista, if you...

Today was our second, and last day in NZ, last evening we presented a mini-MEDC at the local convention center covering Windows Mobile and Windows Embedded tools and technologies - today we had a series of customer meetings, and had an hour or so over...

Today (May 17th) we (that's Don Kerr, Rob Tiffany, Derek Snyder , and I) had an 8:30am flight from Sydney to Christchurch/NZ for the mini-MEDC event - since this is an international flight we arranged to be at the airport by 7:00am - It was a little foggy...

MEDC Australia is now done, I had a great time in Sydney, it's been a tough schedule, arriving from Seattle the day before rehearsals, then the event, and customer meetings today . There were four sessions on the Windows Embedded track, these were: Windows...

After we completed MEDC rehearsals it was time to get some top shelf tucker out with a few mates who are also working at the event. While walking back to the hotel I noticed a fountain that looked oddly familiar, almost as if I'd been here before, perhaps...

MEDC 2007 Australia/New Zealand kicks off tomorrow morning (Tuesday 15th May), today we've been at the Microsoft Sydney office and have been rehearsing the keynote and sessions for MEDC. Security at the Microsoft office is amazing, take a look at the...

Finally Steve Hegenderfer ( Hulk Hogan ) from the Windows Mobile team has a blog up and running - Steve is the image on the right of the blog banner. Steve works with Windows Mobile partners, I'm sure there's going to be some pearls of wisdom on the blog...

It's my first week on the job as Architect for the Windows Embedded Business - I'm pretty pleased that within the first week I've completed my first project . - Mike

Last week at MEDC in Las Vegas I presented a lab on application development for Windows CE using the Microsoft Foundation Classes (MFC). The common theme of questions after the session were around support for MFC and end of life for MFC, many people attending...

It's time for me to move to a new job within Microsoft, don't worry, I'm not leaving the Embedded group, in fact I'm moving into a role that gets me even closer to the Embedded tools and technologies than I have been for the last six years in my current...

As soon as the Sumo Robotics competition finished I managed to grab an interview with Joseph Fernando, an Architect on the Microsoft Robotics Studio team to talk about the competition and Robotics Studio. - Mike

At the end of each round of the Sumo Robotics Competition we managed to grab an interview with the competitor that had been knocked out of the competition . Here's part one of the interviews. and part two... It's interesting to see that everyone that...

Here's a set of photos from this years MEDC Sumo Robotics competition - thanks to Vetala Hawkins (the official event photographer for taking some amazing shots from the event). The first photo really captures the excitement of watching vacuum cleaners...

Just been checking out Darryl Burling's blog - there's a mini-MEDC event coming to NZ on May 17th. Speakers at the event will be Derek Snyder (windows mobile) and Mike Hall (windows embedded). Hope to see you all there! - Mike

CE 6.0 Service Pack 1 has been released to the web - the service pack includes updates to support the CE 6.0 tools on Windows Vista, support for eXDI 2.0, a new Remote Tools Framework, and CEDebugX a really neat tool to help find and resolve deadlocks...

This year introduces another way for speakers to be competitive, not content with just seeing who the best speakers are, this year Derek introduced the Windows Mobile vs. Windows Embedded chart... Congratulations must go to Doug Boling for taking the...

Check out the interview with Scott Holden, Product Unit Manager for the .NET Compact Framework Team showing Silverlight running on a Windows Mobile device. - Mike

Here's the MEDC Sumo Robotics Final - the announcer for the competition was Michael Buffer ! (listen out for the famous "Let's get ready to rumble" just before the final round begins. I interviewed all of the people taking part in the competition, the...

Here's a video montage of last nights Sumo Robotics Competition... More videos on the way... Congratulations to Brian Warren on winning the competition! - Mike

The Windows Mobile team are running a survey, they don't have prizes or T-Shirts to hand out but do want to get feedback from you - if you have a few minutes to spare then head over to the Windows Mobile Survey . - Mike