Windows Embedded Blog

Last August I put up a blog post that showed how to create a Kiosk type device using CE 5.0 and I've had a number of requests to update the blog post to cover CE 6.0 - so here's the CE 6.0 Kiosk mode post. First thing to cover is what is Kiosk Mode ?...

Andy Wigley, Daniel Moth, and Peter Foot have been hard at work developing an MS Press book called Microsoft Mobile Development Handbook ( link to Amazon ) - the book (all 688 pages of it!) covers the following topics. 1. .NET Compact Framework—a Platform...

Update Rollup 1.0 for Windows XP Embedded enables OEM customers to use some of the latest Windows Vista components on the Windows XP Embedded platform, including Internet Explorer 7, Windows Media Player 11, User Mode Driver Framework, Remote Desktop...

Some of the developers at Intrinsyc have started a blog to provide hints and tips to developers building embedded systems based on Windows CE - the blog authors have extensive knowledge of Windows CE having worked on devices based on the early releases...

Here's a couple of updates on the .NET Micro Framework - interesting stuff! Here’s a video interview from TechEd 2007 with Donald Thompson and Rob Miles , authors of the upcoming “ Embedded Programming with the Microsoft® .NET Micro Framework ” by Microsoft...

We've just released a CE 6.0 USB Camera Driver ( download page here ) - CE 6.0 introduces a new camera driver model that mirrors the capabilities of the existing Windows Mobile camera driver model - on CE 5.0 we didn't expose a camera driver model, this...

The results are in, 15 teams are moving forward to the finals of the Imagine Cup Embedded Invitational - the list of finalists (and their reports) can be found here . The world finals of the Imagine Cup are being held in South Korea in August (not too...

Here's some interesting news from Tech*Ed 2007 - the .NET Micro Framework team have announced support for Analog Devices' Blackfin platform . - Mike

Head on over to the Windows Home Server Blog for information about the Windows Home Server Release Candidate that's just gone live. - Mike

Dave Baker and John Holdstock from the Embedded Developer and Platform Evangelism (DPE) team have published an article on Embedded2Enterprise that shows how Leviton (a company that's been around since 1906!) use the .NET Micro Framework to bring a solution...

Devices based on the Windows Embedded platforms - Windows Embedded CE, Windows XP Embedded and Windows Embedded for Point of Service - are increasingly being adopted by enterprise organizations to help improve efficiencies while driving down costs. Learn...

Nicolas BESSON's from Adeneo has started an Embedded Blog - Adaneo focus on Windows Embedded CE development work, including BSP development, look out for new BSPs available from Adaneo, and development tips and tricks. - Mike