Microsoft today announced the launch of its first Microsoft Embedded Systems Development Centre (MESDC) in Aachen, Germany. The MESDC is part of Microsoft's effort to expand regional development centres in Denmark, France, Ireland, Serbia, the UK and...

The trip from Aachen to Nuremberg went pretty well, a few slow spots (around Frankfurt for example), and some heavy rain that slowed everything down. We did manage to make "reasonable progress" on more than one occasion - Mike Glass (back seat of the...

Check out this video of XNA games running on Zune - pretty cool! XNA Game Running on a Zune - Mike

Today we finished our meetings in Aachen (Germany) at a good time, jetlag was catching up with Chris, Mike, and I, you could easily see that there were a number of very tired looking people in the meeting room. So we decided to go and eat somewhere in...

Yesterday I took a flight from London to Dusseldorf and met one of my colleagues (who shall remain nameless for now) who was going to drive us both to Aachen for meetings at the European Microsoft Innovation Center (EMIC) - We had an Audi A8 rental car...

The Beta MCP exam for CE 6.0 has been extended to March 3rd 2008 (more information below, and on the MSDN Certification site ) Now through March 3, 2008, you can take a Beta version of the exam for free. That’s right, it’s free ($125 US value) . If you...

Heading out from sunny Seattle today for another round the world trip... London to Seattle, Seattle to Dusseldorf, Dusseldorf to Aachen (car), Aachen to Nuremberg (car), Nuremberg to Munich, Munich to London, London to Hong Kong, Hong Kong to Shenzhen...

From the XNA Creators site - The XNA Community Games Platform team has announced the first feature of the coming XNA Game Studio 3.0, the ability to build games for the Zune platform. XNA Game Studio 3.0 allows all game developers to create unique and...

"Windows Server 2008 for Embedded Systems" Date and Time: February 28, 2008 @ 8:00-9:00 AM PST During this live online 60 minute presentation, you will learn about the latest Windows Server operating system and how it can be used to build dedicated servers...

Windows XP Embedded supports an update mechanism called Device Update Agent (DUA), this device update service uses a script language to define the way in which a Windows XP Embedded device would be updated - some time ago, Aaron Stebner and I wrote a...

the ICOP eBox 4300 BSP is now available for download . The eBox 4300 is an x86 board running the VIA Eden ULV 500MHz, more details about the board can be found on the embeddedpc.net site . - Mike

Porting a BSP to Windows Embedded CE 6.0 ...requires structural changes to enable KITL, OAL and the kernel to exist as separate entities. This talk covers porting a BSP to Windows Embedded CE 6.0 and a demo of common porting tasks, differentiating optional...

Date and Time: February 21, 2008 @ 1:00-2:00 PM PST During this live online 60 minute presentation, You will learn that XP Embedded has and can be used in a variety of Consumer electronic solutions because of so key embedded enabling feature and core...