Windows Embedded Blog

I'm heading out to TechEd Developers 2008 on Sunday morning, I've decided to dig out my TechEd 1998 Speaker Shirt to wear at one of my sessions (see below) - I'm also wondering about whether I should wear the 8-bit tie for the session... thoughts? Here...

Olivier Bloch and Mike Hall (me) will be in the bloggers lounge at TechEd 2008 (Developers) on the following days and time. June 3 10:00-11:00 Mike Hall/Olivier Bloch If you have questions about embedded operating system development, or application development...

CE 6.0 is a componentized operating system, made up of roughly 700 components, which is fine, but which APIs are exposed on the operating system, and how do you find out what those APIs are ? (and why is this useful?). I guess the first question to ask...

I'm going to be at TechEd 2008 Developers next week, in Sunny old Florida (sunny and very humid). There are two sessions that I'm presenting, and a bunch of embedded sessions where I will be "lurking" to answer questions. The two sessions are: Wednesday...

The Microsoft Professional Developers Conference 2008 registration is now open. Take advantage of the Early Bird discount and save $200 on your registration. Join us in Los Angeles October 27-30, 2008 and hear details about Microsoft’s services platform...

I found this article on Gizmodo this morning that clearly shows that Cylons (from the TV show Battlestar Galactica ) are running Windows XP, and possibly Windows XP Embedded on their Base Ships! Of course the Cylons are smart enough to realize that using...

Sara Morgan, author of Programming Microsoft Robotics Studio, will introduce concepts that are relevant to running robotic simulations, and help you understand the tools and technologies that are available with Microsoft Robotics Studio. Sara will provide...

Just launched on MSDN is the CE 6.0 Exam Preparation Kit Download - There are six chapters in the kit that cover the following topics. Chapter 01 : Customizing the Operating System Design Chapter 02 : Building and Deploying the Runtime Image Chapter 03...

Check out the article on Ars Technica that discusses CISC vs. RISC processor architectures and what this means for embedded/mobile devices. - Mike

Please join us on June 3 rd for the launch of Windows Embedded Standard, the next generation of Windows XP Embedded. At this virtual launch event, you’ll be among the first to learn about the embedded technologies in Windows Embedded Standard and how...

Tandy Trower, GM of the Microsoft Robotics team provides an update on what's new in the Robotics Developer Studio CTP ( Channel 9 video ). There are a number of interesting updates, including the distributed services node editor - this gives you the ability...

Please join experts from the Windows Mobile, Windows CE, SQL Server CE and .NET Compact Framework communities in a chat around application development for smart devices. These chats are a great opportunity to have your questions answered by experts from...

Paul Yao is presenting this evenings WE-DIG session , the topic for this evening is "What's new in the .NET Compact Framework 3.5" - if you can't make it to the WE-DIG meeting in person then you can check out the online video up on the MSDN Channel 9...

Building an application for a mobile or embedded device is a different experience to developing on the desktop, you are usually building your application code to target a remote device (rather than running on a desktop PC [although you can of course use...

I've received a couple of e-mails from people that have Pico-ITX kits from Embedded Systems West and want to build a custom CE 6.0 operating system image. The VIA Pico-ITX CE 6.0 BSP is available to download from the VIA site . - Mike

With the release of Popfly Game Creator Alpha Master Chief needs to find a new job Popfly: On Set with Halo Master Chief To get more information on the Popfly Game Creator, go take a look at the Channel 9 video . - Mike

While waiting for the Starbucks iCup machine to do it's thing I noticed that the stack of cups precisely mirrored the number of bars on my cell phone... spooky! - Mike