You are probably aware that we're not running the Mobile and Embedded Developers Conference (MEDC) this year, and are pointing people at Embedded Systems West (April 14-18, San Jose) , or TechEd Developers (June 3-6, Orlando, Florida) as the replacements for MEDC. Embedded Systems West will have content...

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 lunchtime to get up onto the hills above ChCha (Christchurch...

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 in Sydney this morning, which meant massive disruption...

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 XP Embedded SP2 Feature Pack 2007 (presented...

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 a touch of déjà vu. To quote Trinity from "The...

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 took part is interested in working with Robotics Studio...

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 fight! As usual, the Sumo competition really is the...

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

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 top session slot, and also getting six of his sessions...

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 consistent message from all of the contestants was...

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

We're running a number of embedded (and mobile) instructor led labs at MEDC - these labs are always popular, it's a great way for attendees to get "Hands on" with the tools/technologies, and at the same time have the developers, architects, testers that work on the technologies available to answer questions...

Here's Derek interviewing the Windows Embedded CE Product Manager, Dan Javnoson - so what is Windows Embedded CE ? - Mike

Derek Snyder interviews John Doyle, the Windows XP Embedded Product Manager - find out what's new and interesting with Windows XP Embedded. - Mike

Joseph Fernando is one of the Architects working on Microsoft Robotics Studio, we've just released a Community Tech Preview of Robotics Studio 1.5 which now supports CE 6.0 and Windows Mobile. Here's David Lee from the Robotics Studio team talking about the Simulation environment. Paul Roberts from the...

- Mike

Rob Tiffany (Senior Technical Product Manager, Windows Mobile) has built a server rack with thousand of clients to show how Windows Mobile on the front end and SQL/Exchange can scale across the Enterprise - check out the video. Rob had this server rack sat in his office for a week or so before the conference...

Straight after the keynote there are typically a set of "General Sessions" covering Windows Mobile, Windows CE, Windows XP Embedded etc... - The Windows Embedded CE session was delivered by Ilya Bukshteyn (Director, Windows Embedded Marketing) and David Kelley (Product Unit Manager, Windows CE Engineering...

Yep, it's MEDC 2007 time again, we've just completed the first day (and at the time of this posting, the second day of the event kicks off in about six hours!). If you are attending the event I'd really like to hear all of your comments about the event, what's worked well, what can be improved for next...

Here's some shots of the MEDC 2007 keynote, we get to see Derek Snyder talking about Windows Mobile, Visual Studio Codename "Orcas", Mike (that's me) talking about Sumo Robots running CE 6.0 and being programmed using Microsoft Robotics Studio, and Robbie giving the keynote. Interestingly, James Pratt...

This is a pretty interesting look behind the scenes of the MEDC 2007 keynote, we get to see behind the stage (way too much gear!), Derek in rehearsals, interviews with Robbie Bach (and Derek), and Derek, James, and I having some quick breakfast about 30 minutes before the keynote started [we were in...

Derek provides a walk through of his keynote demos, and we get cut off by the event producers to start yet another keynote rehearsal. - Mike

During the MEDC keynote we had three Embedded specific demos, the first was around Robotics and CE 6.0, the second was a solution built by Clarity Consulting for Windows XP Embedded which includes a WPF based UI (built in Expression Blend), SQL Compact Edition, Visual Studio 2005, and the .NET Framework...

Take a look at more of the exhibit hall on setup day and hear from some of the exhibitors at MEDC 2007. Interesting comment from Beckhoff about moving from CE 5.0 to CE 6.0 and the performance increase they gained from moving to the latest version! - Mike