May, 2010

Curious to know how Windows Embedded Standard 7 compares to previous editions of componentized, embedded versions of Windows? Read this article: Hey, Windows Embedded Standard 7 — What’s New With You?: Sorting out the key differences between Windows Embedded...

Here are some reasons why you should not miss TechEd North America : 1- New Orleans is a great place to go to! 2- TechEd provides a huge amount of technical sessions, Hands on Labs, and other activities that makes a great week of intensive training on...

As you might know, Windows Embedded organizes a competition each year, announcing the topic at ESC Boston around September and announcing the winners at  the Embedded Systems Conference (ESC) Silicon Valley around May. This year the winner was Marco...

Newsgroups have been a great source of information for developers and as the communities are evolving, Microsoft Newsgroups are being migrated to Forums . It seems communities are preferring forums vs. newsgroups and Microsoft is aligning on this trend...

When doing Windows Embedded Standard 7 OS development, you use ICE and IBW to generate your image (see this white paper for more details and entries on the Windows Embedded Standard blog ). Then once the image has been generated you might want to modify...

I don’t like high jacking others blogs, but I am sure Mike won’t blame me for this one, right Mike? So Mike published this post about a great PowerToy that will definitively help OEMs investigate their memory leaks issues. In his words… The Windows CE...

Microsoft Auto group has recently been integrated into the Windows Embedded group. this integration makes perfect sense as Microsoft Auto is based on Windows Embedded CE and regrouping the development efforts will benefit both sides: Auto and Windows...

The Evaluation version of Windows Embedded Standard 7 (componentized, embedded version of Windows 7) is available for download on Microsoft download center. Anyone can download it and cook its own (time bombed) OS image for its device. Let me know what...

the Microsoft Management Summit 2010 took place in Vegas a couple of weeks ago. As in all Microsoft technical conferences, you have a lot of labs running on a lot of machines. The setup for labs this year has significantly changed, and virtualization...

I am just back from the Embedded Systems Conference in San Jose, CA and I (again) had to answer these same questions again and again: “So is CE really dead?”, “Now you killed CE, how are you addressing the ARM-based platforms?”, “How is it that you are...