Windows Embedded Blog

That’s quite a strong statement, right ? – so why wouldn’t I use Windows CE or Windows XP Embedded ? The operating systems are too big There’s no support for real-time functionality The operating systems are not secure It’s too hard to configure an operating...

A very common question that perhaps needs some explanation is the difference between Windows Mobile 5.0 and Windows Embedded CE 6.0 - so here's the explanation. Windows Embedded CE is a hard real-time, componentized operating system that can be used by...

Check this out, not only is Halo 2 available at your favorite game store [don't forget to purchase the XBOX to play it on!] - but there are a ton of Halo 2 parties going on, I took Kevin [my son] to a Halo 2 party organized by some of the Windows CE Development...

Are you interested in owning a Halo Warthog ? – take a look at the Peugot Hoggar concept car (link on the right). I’ve also been asked about the Master Chief armour that featured in one of my earlier blogs – I’ve found a site that...

Last post showed Windows XP Embedded running on a Mac in Virtual PC - How about the other way round ? - Check this out, Mac OS X running on a PC - http://os-emulation.net/pearpc/web/ (Updated to now use a JPG instead of linking to the original Emulation...

Yesterday I paved my development PC (I was running a 32-bit beta of Windows 7) and moved to 64-bit Windows 7 Release Candidate . Paving the PC meant that I needed to re-install all of my favorite applications and tools. Installing Windows Embedded CE...

You’ve probably heard of the Windows Mobile platform, or the Windows Mobile operating system, what is this, and is there any relationship between this and Windows CE ? – This is a question that comes up all the time, so here’s my attempt...

Want to run your Windows CE 5.0 O/S images without needing Platform Builder, or share your images with your customers without them needing Platform Builder, then the Windows CE 5.0 Device Emulator download is probably what you are looking for - take a...

Take a look at the image below - who's trying to snatch the "Collectors Edition" Halo2 box ? - Mike

Now this is super cool - go to http://www.virtualearth.com - click on the "locate me" button and see what happens... - you can then do a local search of the area for gas, food etc... I'm sat in a team meeting in building 117 on Microsoft Campus, here...

A few days ago I posted an article from Cots Journal Online which discussed some of the shortcomings of Linux use in embedded systems. Based on some of the comments posted back to the blog it would appear that Linux is used because of the community which...

In case you missed the near silent roll out of ActiveSync 3.8, here’s the details and download locations… Microsoft ActiveSync 3.8 is the latest synchronization software for Windows Mobile-based Pocket PCs and Smartphones. ActiveSync 3.8 contains...

Want to run an RDP client or VNC client on your Pocket PC – here’s two options… From PocketPCThoughts.com – VNC Viewer.NET (a completely managed VNC viewer) or use Nyditot software to set screen resolution and orientation and run the H/PC Pro RDP client...

In last weeks nail-biting installment of Windows CE Kiosk Mode we left our hero at the point where he was going to create a \Startup folder on the device and drop an application into the folder to be launched on startup of the Windows CE operating system...

We have some of the first Full Packaged Product (FPP) boxes of Windows Embedded CE 6.0 here in the office - here's how the new boxes look, pretty sweet! - Mike

I get a reasonable number of questions about supporting Virtual PC 2007 from Windows Embedded CE 6.0. We’ve just published a CE 6.0 Binary BSP for Virtual PC 2007 on the MSDN Code Gallery site. Note that this is not an officially supported BSP (don’t...

I seem to be getting quite a number of questions related to CE 6.0 and Visual Studio 2005/2008 - so here's the story... Developers building Windows CE based devices fall into one of two groups, you are either an operating system developer, or an application...

Windows CE 5.0 "RTM" Evaluation kit is now available as a web download - go get it folks... Evaluation Software - Download The English RTM version of Windows CE 5.0 is now available for download via the Windows Embedded Introductory Kit . Evaluation Software...

I tried to sync my hotmail e-mail account through Outlook Express today, and got the following error (which was nice) The error message dialog contains a link which, when clicked links to Microsoft's Support site, the following Knowledge Base article...

Here’s the list of videos we’ve produced so far at TechEd 2005 – We’re in the middle of uploading a TON of videos including a PodAttack on Don Box right in the middle of his modelling session (hope to have that up tonight). My favorites right now are...

Now that I’m a Podcaster (if there is such a thing) I thought it would be interesting to sync my podcast files down to a Smartphone device running Windows Mobile 2003 – it’s so easy, even someone with an MBA should be able to do this… (anyone remember...

This from Engadget – Teddy the Bear has MAC OS-X running on his Pocket PC I’ve seen two versions of this article, the one from Engadget , and one from Wired – To access the Mac, Teddy installed a Virtual Network Computing, or VNC, client...

Here's my code to read barcode data and display the data in a ListBox - of course this could also be extended to lookup the barcode data in a SQL Database or XML file and provide more information like "Grande Vanilla Latte", "Lemon Pound Cake", and todays...

The Seattle Times have posted an article that hints at a Halo Movie being made (had to happen, right?). ok, so place your bets for who’s going to be playing which role… – Mike

This is a pretty common question on the newsgroups, and also came up on e-mail this morning - how do you change the Windows XP Embedded boot screen/logo ? From Sysinternals.com - modify your boot.ini as follows. /BOOTLOGO Use this switch to have...