January, 2010

Johan Arwidmark , one of our valuable Embedded MVPs has struggled with sysprep and the eval version of Windows Embedded Standard 2009. While using sysprep on a WES 2009 eval image to experience some deployment scenario, he was getting an error in the...

A lot of in-car technologies have been demonstrated at CES this year. In a very near future you will get multiple screens, fully voice- and touch- controlled infotainment systems, you will access online services to do search, navigation, social networking...

Do you know Charles Fleischer? No, really? He is the voice of Roger Rabbit! Check out this great presentation, or should I say performance, he made at TED talk in 2005 and that was republished recently, you will not be deceived. He is talking about serious...

Windows Embedded CE 6.0 R3 provides support for Silverlight for Windows Embedded. This means you can build Silverlight User Interfaces for your Windows CE devices. Silverlight for Windows Embedded is different to the Web version of in the way you program...

Arghhhh, I just spent 2 hours on trying to figure out why I had my sysgen process would fail really early… And when looking at the error.log file (located in C:\WINCE600) I could just see this kind of messages: Res2Res:  ERROR: Line: 267  File...

Are you interested in having NTFS support in Windows Embedded CE? As you might now there has been no support for NTFS file system in Windows Embedded CE. A third party company called Tuxera offers this support now. See this article on Windowsfordevices...

From kiosks to point-of-sale or digital signage, embedded devices surround you when you are shopping. The retail devices are more and more connected and more and more “intelligent”, able to adapt to the customer using it, able to access inventories easily...

   Nice MID running Windows Embedded CE:the Toshiba JournE. This emerging category is really interesting. Current technologies allow great user experience on devices now. Let’s hope we will get more and  mote of these ones as I find it...

Beckhoff is a well know player of the Industrial Automation industry. They have been providing Microsoft based Real Time and Industrial Automation solutions for over 10 years and are brilliantly sticking to the latest innovations and enhancements of the...

Round 1 of the embeddedSPARK competition ended last week and the 75 contestants moving to Round 2 were announced this week.  In Round 1, each contestant had to submit a paper detailing their idea for a project related to the “Fun and Games” theme...

« I see Windows Everywhere » …  the first dedicated French student and hobbyist contest on Windows Embedded Technologies ! MS France Windows Embedded and Visual Studio teams announced the first application development contest for students using Visual...

What about having digital signage to be more interactive, intuitive, adapted to the one who is standing in front of it? You would walk in front of these panels and they will display the exact products you are looking for, they will locate the products...

In my last post I talked a little about a nice POC built by Intel and running Windows Embedded. Here is a video