I’d recommend you check out Jochen’s post on the Discover the Windows Embedded Experience blog that lists some fixes he figured out related to USB mass storage not working properly on Windows Embedded CE.

Just back from TechEd North America, I am putting together my report and as part of it, I am listing all the different feedback I received from partners, customers, MVPs. One of the comment I heard the most was about the unknown future of the Enterprise...

The next version of Windows Embedded CE has just been announced at Computex in Taipei today. Windows Embedded Compact 7 CTP is available for download on the Connect Website (See edit below for connection instructions). To read the press release, visit...

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...

Tuesday, at the ESC Silicon Valley conference, Kevin Dallas, GM for the Windows Embedded group announced the release of Windows Embedded Standard 7, the componentized and embedded version of Windows 7. While most of the features of the new Embedded OS...

Check out his video of Silverlight for Windows Embedded demos running on a Freescale  tablet reference design. More to come in this area real soon… Make an on-line slide show at www.OneTrueMedia.com

I am not that old… 34 yo… but I can remember discovering the first mouse of my life when my dad came back home with our first personal computer: an Apple IIC… I was 10 and I learned to use the strange object faster than my parents. It felt… intuitive...

Want to get fresh news on Windows Embedded? Want to find blog posts, tweets, videos related to Windows Embedded? Here is the portal you need to go to: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/presskits/embedded/

I cannot resist sharing this with you. You know Mike Hall, our Principal Architect Lead for Windows Embedded? If not go check out his blog . So here is a couple of pictures of Mike wearing really interesting shoes. Knowing that our architect wears such...

Windows Phone 7 is on its way :-), and as you might have noticed, a lot of things are changing that will make it difficult to build customized devices such as handheld terminals or ruggedized devices like this one using Windows Phone 7 OS: As a matter...

Did you see this device that we regularly show on our Windows Embedded booth at events such as TechEd or ESC, called the Goldeni? I published some photos in a recent post, here are some videos now. Kopin , the company who is developing this device have...

A new tool has just been published to help you prepare any hard disk that can be attached to your development PC to boot a x86-Based Windows CE OS Design. It also includes advanced tools to prepare a VM disk for Virtual PC. Windows Embedded CE DiskPrep...

Do you know how Windows was created? Tandy Trower , lately known as the lead of the Microsoft Robotics Studio initiative and team tells the story of the birth of Windows …

Hoeft & Wessel is a German company building POS devices and uses Windows Embedded CE 6 to power some of their kiosks such as all the Lufthansa’s self-checkin ones. I am actually travelling to Germany for Embedded World and will flight on Lufthansa...

Windows 7 appears to be a great success. The OS is fast, stable and provides great features. The Windows Embedded team directly benefits from these features and enhancements especially for its future version of Windows Embedded Standard which is based...

Steve Ballmer and Joe Delfiore (VP for Windows Phone group) announced the next version of Windows Phone. I am quite excited as this is a brand new direction the group is taking that puts the focus on integrated experience and a brand new design leveraging...