Windows Embedded Blog

On Friday 23rd March 2012 Kevin Dallas, General Manager of the Windows Embedded Business at Microsoft delivered a keynote presentation at SMART TECHnology World, during the keynote Kevin is joined by Michael Allison, IT Administrator of Hillcrest Medical...

Here’s another interesting webcast for you to add to your calendar: Tuesday April 17th @ 9am Pacific time, the topic is “Optimizing your Image size in Windows Embedded Compact 7” Here’s a link to the registration page and here’s the session synopsis:...

You’ve probably heard about the .NET Gadgeteer kit ( link to Microsoft Gadgeteer site – and link to Microsoft Research Gadgeteer site ) which gives the ability to rapidly develop cool/interesting hardware/software solutions without needing to know much...

Date: December 13, 2011 Time: 9:00 a.m. (Pacific) Registration: https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032501309&Culture=en-US Windows Embedded Compact has a myriad of new features – from multiprocessor support to more RAM to...

Check out the latest book on Windows Embedded Compact 7 development – The book is authored by Avi Kcholi and covers device driver development – the book is available through APress ( link to APress site ) Here’s the book description. Windows Embedded...

Doug Boling will be presenting a session covering how to develop applications using Silverlight for Windows Embedded – the session starts at 9am (Pacific) today. Here’s a link to the webcast page . (Updated with the correct link). - Mike

Olivier Bloch has just posted about Virtual Labs, Training, Webcasts updates for Windows Embedded Compact 7 (Windows CE) – You can find out more about the labs/webcasts/training by visiting Olivier’s blog . - Mike

Yesterday, the Windows Embedded team published details of the product roadmap that includes updates to the Desktop/Embedded and Compact (Windows CE) products – the Microsoft News Center Article is here . Kevin Dallas (photo) says there are two primary...

If you were not able to attend this mornings Compact 7 webcast “Improving Boot Times”, presented by Doug Boling you can now watch the recording – here’s a link . - Mike

There are approximately 40 Windows Embedded Compact 7 webcasts archived online (here’s the link to the Windows Embedded Video Showcase ) – The Compact 7 videos are from the May 2011 timeframe. On October 25th Doug Boling will be presenting a live Webcast...

We all use embedded devices throughout the day without thinking about how many ‘smart’ systems are around us, from the in-car entertainment system, digital photo frame, home automation/security, digital signage, medical systems and more… When you start...

Windows Embedded Compact Update 3 is now available for download – here’s the link . What’s in the update? – here’s the overview from the MSDN download website. This release contains an update for the Compact Test Kit that includes the CTK Automation Tool...

On Tuesday October 25th at 9am (Pacific Time – US/Canada) Doug Boling, well known presenter and book author will be presenting an online Webcast covering Windows Embedded Compact 7, Improving Boot Times. Registration/Information can be found here . -...

David Jones (of Embedded101 fame – more information on the founding members of Embedded101 can be found here ) has uploaded a new utility to CodePlex, the utility is called CEContentWiz, this is similar to the CEFileWiz utility that I released some time...

Elbacom have just published a Keyboard Filter Driver for Windows Embedded Standard 7, this is positioned as a Christmas Present from Elbacom ( here’s a link ) – examples of keys that can be filtered include CTRL+ALT+DEL, Win+E etc. Could be interesting...

The Windows Embedded Business has an opening for a Senior Technical Product Manager position ( link ) – the role is a mixture of “hands on” technology and presenting at conferences/talking to customers – here’s the official job description – sounds interesting...

Check out the video on MSDN Channel 9 where Colin Miller (Product Unit Manager for .NET Micro Framework ) provides an overview of .NET Gadgeteer .   - Mike

Check out the CE Stream Driver Wizard on CodePlex created by David Jones – more information about the driver wizard can be found on the Embedded101 community site. - Mike

Here’s a link to today’s Windows Phone 7 launch ( Engadget ). - Mike

Colin Miller (Product Unit Manager for .NET Micro Framework) explains and demos the .NET Gadgeteer at Maker Faire in NY, here’s the video… The video also shows some demos built using Gadgeteer – More information about the .NET Gadgeteer can be found on...

Last week I presented a session at “Future World” on the subject of Enabling Connectivity – the topic of enabling connectivity is only one part of creating a smart, connected, cloud enabled device – my presentation covered four main areas: Enabling Connectivity...

The Silverlight for Windows Embedded (SWE) team now have an MSDN blog up and running, first post is live (welcome to the blog) – here’s a link to the blog . - Mike

Join John Coyne on Wednesday June 30th at 10AM PDT for a Webcast titled “The new ‘Standard’ in Embedded: Windows 7 Componentized for embedded devices” – click Here to register. - Mike

Windows desktop users can keep their PC up to date with the latest patches, updates, drivers, and technologies through Windows Update, but what about developers that are using Windows Embedded Tools to build embedded operating systems? – Typically, developers...