You are a mobile developer? You have a Mac… running MacOS? But you still want to develop Windows Phone 8 applications? Then there is an article for that! Developing for Windows Phone 8 requires using the Windows Phone 8 SDK , which itself requires running...

The Windows Embedded team just started a new team blog that  will bring together a range of voices to spotlight Windows Embedded News and information, and reflect the evolving world of intelligent systems and specialized devices. I highly recommend...

Tons of mobile application projects are started every single day, in a domain where fragmentation is forcing developers into a complicated exercise of understanding what his options are. In a couple of previous posts, I have tried to provide a certain...

Today, developers increasingly need to be thinking about a mobile component and scenario, so they have to consider the actual fragmentation of this incredibly fast growing market if they want to be successful. I discussed the differentiation and fragmentation...

How does the mobility landscape look from the mobile developer’s perspective these days? Exciting, motivating, promising, confusing, fragmented, all of the above? Let’s take a look. Mobile, mobile, mobile It is a no brainer today (and not news) that mobility...

As mentioned in a previous post , I recently changed roles at Microsoft and joined a very impressive team in charge of what is called Interoperability Strategy. As a new member of this team, I cover client platforms Interoperability (Windows Phone, IE...

PhoneGap 1.3 has just been released and now offers full support for Windows Phone 7.5. You can read details about the release on the interoperability @ Microsoft blog . In order to see how this works, you can watch the videos below. The first one is an...

I would like to thank you for your interest in following this blog about Embedded technologies. As I am moving on to another role at Microsoft, you will see different topics covered in here, related to mobility and HTML5/JavaScript development. I recommend...

This demo is pretty impressive, and shows how a Silverlight for Windows Embedded based application looks like on a Toradex Colibri T20 board (which features a Tegra 2 Dual Core 1GHz CPU)… not mentioning the music of the video is pretty cool .

Then you should check out this demo video from Toradex showing boot times that go under the second. Pretty cool!

If  you are gentleman, I am sure you have been in this situation where you were relieving yourself at a public urinal and got bored ‘cause there was nothing to do, look or listen to in the meantime but staring at the wall… Well, here is a cool idea...

Avi Kcholi, Windows Embedded MVP, has just finished a great book on Device Drivers development for Compact 7 that should be available really soon. The description of the book is the following: “Windows Embedded Compact 7 is the natural choice for developing...

Craig Eisler , General Manager of the Kinect for Windows group, just announced on the Kinect for Windows Blog what his teams are working on, and I find these news pretty exiting. There will be a hardware specific to Windows usage that considers several...

If you are looking for some emag with news around what’s going on around Windows Embedded and related topics, then I recommend taking a look at what Elbacom is publishing here: http://www.elbacom.com/emag/01 http://www.elbacom.com/emag/02

Earlier today we announced the continued investment in Windows Embedded Compact and upcoming new version of the CE based embedded OS. In order to ensure developers are able to access the right type of material to get ramped up or to dig into particular...

The Windows Embedded teams have been working a lot lately on planning and starting executing on the next generation of products. Determined to deliver on the Intelligent Systems promise to extend enterprise software and cloud services to devices. Today...

This is the tagline of the Kinect for Windows SDK! The beta 2 is now available for download on the new Kinect for Windows portal. As you can see in the video below a lot of applications people have been starting to work on with Kinect are related to medical...

The online team has just added a great feature on the www.windowsembedded.com site. you now have a dedicated search that searches through all Microsoft content only for Embedded related content. You will find results from the MSDN Library, products information...

Sam Phung is VP at ICOP Technologies (a company creating embedded PCs), long time Windows Embedded expert, and founder of the Embedded101 community site. In an article on EECatalog , he presents what he thinks are the advantages of Windows Embedded Compact...

In the intent of delivering more technical insight and training to embedded developers working with Windows Embedded CE/Compact, the Windows Embedded team will be kicking off a series of technical “tips and tricks” webcasts next Tuesday October 25th....

I was recently working on porting a Silverlight for Windows Embedded demo from Windows CE 6.0 R3 to Compact 7 and the project which was using ATL wouldn’t compile, stating that some ATL headers were referencing some unknown constants… There actually is...

The Windows Embedded Compact team has been super busy lately and here is why: the third update to Windows Embedded Compact 7 has just been released. You can download it from here . This update provides new tools, application updates and bug fixes for...

If you are developing user interfaces and applications leveraging Silverlight for Windows Embedded on Windows Embedded Compact 7 , then you will certainly be interested by this article . Thanks Sandu!

Great article from Rob Tiffany on his blog. If you are in the handheld device business or are looking into Handheld based solutions and want to know what’s in Windows Embedded Handheld for you, then this is a must read: http://robtiffany.com/windows-embedded...

From DOS 5.0 to Windows 7 (DOS 5.0, Windows1.01, Windows 2.1, Windows 3.0 Windows 3.1, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 , follow the complete migration path in the video below. Note that we are talking about upgrading...