Windows Embedded extends the power of Windows and the cloud to intelligent systems. Encompassing operating systems, tools, and systems and services, Windows Embedded enables enterprises to generate tangible, real-time benefits with anytime, anywhere access to executable data. Microsoft entered the embedded marketplace over 15 years ago and continues to lead the evolution toward intelligent systems with an extensive suite of technologies for enterprises across a variety of industries. Visit windowsembedded.com for more information.
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Cross posted from the Windows Embedded Standard Blog.
The August 2011 Security Updates are now available on the ECE site for Windows® Embedded Standard 2009 and/or Microsoft® Windows® XP Embedded with Service Pack 3.
The August Security Updates include:
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Cross posted from the Olivier Embedded Blog.
Some of our fellow MVPs have joined their efforts to write a great book that I highly recommend if you are doing or planning to do Windows Embedded Compact 7development.
You can purchase the book on Wrox or Amazon now. Obviously electronic versions are also available, pdf ebook or Kindle edition…
Samuel Phung, David Jones and Thierry Joubert have been working in the embedded industry for years now, consulting, teaching, architecting, developing and selling embedded solutions in the context of large industrial projects. In addition Mike Hall, Principal Architect Lead for Windows Embedded wrote the foreword of the book. I can’t wait to get my dedicated copy!!
Below some more information about the writers of this must-have book.
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Cross posted from Olivier’s Embedded Blog.
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 the OS each time, meaning applications like DOOM II installed on the initial DOS 5.0 still run once in Windows 7!!!
Tell me what you think as I am curious to hear from people in the Embedded industry using Microsoft solutions about this.
The Internet Explorer 9 Application Template for Windows Embedded Standard 7 SP1 was released in the June 2011 Feature Update. This template is used to ensure all the required dependencies for Internet Explorer 9 are added to a runtime image when created in ICE.
This release makes the Internet Explorer 9 application available on ECE for use by embedded OEMs. The installer can be run on runtime images. Both the 32-bit and 64-bit versions are available.
Internet Explorer 9 features HTML 5 support, Pinned Sites, InPrivate Browsing and Tab isolation and recovery. More information for IE9 can be found at this website.
- Lynda
Cross posted from Brian Rogers: Removing complexity slowly.
Hey everyone, we have been fielding some questions about installation requirements for Compact 7. I had Kyle Roe write up some general troubleshooting instructions for you.
As with all software installations, there are times when WindowsEmbeddedCompact7.exe cannot complete the install successfully. Great effort has been made prevent the installation from failing. Sometimes the installation requires other software to be installed first. In the case of Platform Builder, Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Studio 2008 SP1 are the prerequisites. Windows Embedded Compact 7 will search for the prerequisites when it starts. This is part of the action taken while the Splash screen is displayed. ( as a side note, the Splash screen can be moved to show the program has not locked up.)
So what happens if the prerequisites are not found?
You, the user, will see Red X’s next to options that require prerequisites to be meet.
Cross posted from Olivier's Embedded Blog.
Get ready for some great upcoming video: “Just Keep Counting…”
There are plenty of scenarios where you would want to benefit from Windows technologies (in an embedded fashion) on small form factor hardware, such as Digital Signage, Thin Client, Connected TV ... If you are looking for some hardware that will support Windows Embedded Standard, that can do HD video decoding leveraging full hardware acceleration and that would not be bigger than a post-it, then you should take a look at the video below. It is demonstrating a board embedding the new E600 series Atom processor with the GMA600 integrated GPU. Pretty impressive.
Monitoring and optimizing power consumption are frequently important considerations when creating embedded devices. Before he left his role as a Program Manager on the Windows Embedded team for another job, Thomas Yong created a PowerToy to help you understand your device’s power usage that we are releasing today - Power Manager.
Power Manager is a tool designed for Windows Embedded Standard 7 to monitor power management status and to perform battery measurement for battery operated devices.Its primary goal is to ease the battery measurement process by providing automation, data logging, and integration of other power performance analysis tools.
You can download Power Manager,as well as a thorough user guide, at http://archive.msdn.microsoft.com/powermgr/.To learn more about our other PowerToys, please check out Package Mapper, Answer File Diff and CBS Package Inspector.
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Cross posted from The ShiSh List.
I had a opportunity & fortune to collaborate with my colleagues in the Consumer Goods Industry team at Microsoft recently to work on a joint whitepaper on Enterprise Social Computing. The effort was sponsored by the GMA Information Systems Committee.
Enterprise social computing, as addressed in this white paper, focuses on innovations within the enterprise. This paper does not cover the relationship between the consumer packaged goods (CPG) corporation and its customers or suppliers facilitated by digital advertising, e-commerce and marketing analytics. It explores a proven road map for integrating social computing within the four walls of the enterprise, driving an accelerated and enhanced communications culture that can help organizations leverage their greatest assets: people and their relationships.
You can download the Whitepaper here
Cross posted from the Windows Embedded Blog.
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Hey everyone, it is with great joy that I tell you Windows Embedded Compact 7 has been released. It has been well over 8 months since I last posted about the product's status. I am happy to do so now and hope that you test the download and installation experiences. Your feedback will help us improve the product experience.
Here are a couple ways you could help me out.
Our installer, the engine, writes all the logs to the user’s profile temporary directory. Typically this would be the environment variable %temp%. In the instance of WindowsEmbeddedCompact7.exe and WindowsEmbeddedSilverlightTools.exe, we create log files which remove the .exe and add .nnnn.log. So the full string would look something like WindowsEmbeddedCompact7.0001.log.
If you are familiar with Windows API calls and error codes, you should be able to scan the logs and find errors and issues that will help you address the problem you are seeing. If you aren’t familiar with the above, please feel free contact me through this blog by sending me a direct email and I will try to help you directly.
Please note the important support transitions happening for Windows XP Embedded.
Support for Windows XP Embedded Platforms on Service Pack 2
Support for Windows XP Embedded SP2 ended January 11, 2011—the date established upon the release of Windows XP Embedded SP3 in November, 2008. Support for both Windows XP Embedded Feature Pack 2007 and Windows XP Embedded Update Rollup 1.0 on SP2 also retired on that date. This announcement is in line with the Microsoft Support Lifecycle policy for Service Packs, which states that when a new service pack is released, Microsoft will provide 24 months of support for the previous service pack.
Recently I had a conversation with a young engineer who seemed to be of the opinion that there were better things to do than waste time writing requirement specifications. I asked “Like what?” and in response I heard a list of things which included “triaging bugs.”
“Really, you think that?”
Youngsters today, where do they get these silly ideas from? Perhaps from misguided professors who are hip on all the new great software engineering advances like Agile and Extreme development. I’ve been in engineering for, well, a very long time and have seen a lot of different development processes. The one thing I can tell you, unequivocally, is that if a team doesn’t have a common vision for their deliverable, they are sunk (ask me some day about “brilliant weapons”).
That’s what a requirement specification should do.
Cross posted from John Coyne's Embedded Blog.
I’ve been working in and out of the digital signage business for quite a while, with lots of different customers…
One of the best innovations I’ve seen for signage in some time is Windows Embedded Standard 7. take all the power of Windows 7 from a CPU, graphics and hardware support perspective, and give it the ability to be completely customized – remove non-essential Windows Features, block pop-up messages, use your custom signage application as the shell, etc. Overall, a great solution for the Signage industry as a whole.
To help bootstrap development in the signage space Intel, along with WinMate, and Help from us, have recently released the Digital Signage Evaluation Kit (DSEK-10) Available here from WinMate. This device is pretty cool. it’s got all the toys you need to make a great DS demo solution (you could actually take it to production too! ) About a billion connectors for any type of display you want, audio, Wifi, Bluetooth, etc.
I get asked from time to time about where folks can go to find apps for their WES7 based designs. Let’s say you want to include Antivirus, or Adobe Reader in your image – but aren’t sure that they’re set up to work correctly! well, posted here on the Microsoft News Center, is an article talking about our new Compatible Applications Website. This gives developers a look at apps we’ve tested as functional with WES7. this will help you in the planning (as well as development) process, by saving a TON of time.
Nice Job, Embedded Team!
Cross posted from the Windows Embedded Blog
Windows desktop users can keep their PC up to date with the latest patches, updates, drivers, and technologies through Windows Update, but what about developers that are using Windows Embedded Tools to build embedded operating systems? – Typically, developers would use a combination of the OEM Download Portal (ECE) and MSDN to locate updates and new features to download into their development tools – it’s certainly possible to miss an update.
Today we’ve launched Windows Embedded Developer Update (WEDU) for Windows Embedded Standard 7 – Here’s some of the key features:
I get asked all the time, about how to brand an embedded device so it doesn’t look like a PC. With Windows Embedded, we plan for custom branding experience right from the start.
we’ve included Embedded-specific packages with Windows Embedded Standard 7 like unbranded Startup Screens package, Custom Logon Desktop Background Images, Hide Boot Screens, Message Box Default Reply, Dialog Box Filter, and our Command Prompt Shell with Custom Shell Support.
Lots of different ways to highly customize the branding on a device, so that the end user never sees a “Microsoft brand” on the device…
But what about our BugCheck Screen? (for the noobs, the famed ‘Blue Screen of Death’)
I would love to hear from you about any books that I missed in this list.
We have seen a lot of interest in Augmented Reality in the Retail Industry lately. Project Natal has been creating quite a buzz in a lot of the retailer meetings that we have been in. Retailers do see a huge potential in the capabilities offered by Natal and they are certainly looking beyond the gaming capabilities. For those not familiar with Project Natal, have a look at :
http://www.xbox.com/en-US/live/projectnatal/
AdWeek has an excellent article about the Ad Potential of Project Natal and how it could be used to detect the characteristics of a person and what they are wearing or holding and make recommendations based on that.
http://www.adweek.com/aw/content_display/community/columns/other-columns/e3i9d00b780a7553c2191ffbdf21f9ace0c?pn=1
Here are some recommended reading material for understanding the Retail Industry:
I get asked all the time, “Hey John, what kinds of devices do you guys do over in Windows Embedded land?”
Here’s a cool new site we’ve put up, to let folks see all the different examples of devices out there.
Very slick design by our teams… even Sliverlight enabled!
Thanks to Trika for pointing me to this!
-JC