July 2005 - Posts
As part of the XPe SP2 Tech Preview we released the .NET Framework 1.1 SP1 and ASP.NET 1.1 SP1 components in the ValueAdd folder on the CD. This version of .NET Framework is unsupported due to the feature using a different install mechanism from that
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If you don't receive the monthly newsletter ('devwire') from MSDN for all products related to Embedded you can sign up here , I just received the July issue. The devwire has news and tips for the following languages - English, Japanese, Chinese and Korean
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OS News points out a very interesting blog post by Mark Russinovich from one of my favorite companies - Sysinternals . David Solomon was curious about the services required for minimal Windows, something near and dear to the hearts of most Windows Embedded
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The latest version of Microsoft Base Security Analyzer , MBSA 2.0, has recently been released for download – this allows Embedded IT Professionals to remotely scan their networks and identify machines with potential vulnerabilities. When used on Embedded
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The following security updates for XP Embedded have been released and can be downloaded from here or from the OEM site : For SP1 and SP2 : The following updates are rolled into the 6-05.sld & 6-05-sp2.sld- 883939 HTML Rendering Engine Primitive: Browseui
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Quite a few customers have been trying to use the Microsoft Fingerprint Reader with their Embedded runtimes, or create a componentized version of the driver. Componentizing this driver is quite a challenge – one we have hopefully alleviated for you. We
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Less than a month ago we met with some partners in Redmond as part of the Windows Embedded Design Review for 2005, here's one customer's experience at WEDR. One of the things Nandini demo'd for them was how CMI Explorer can be leveraged as a command line
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Mary Jo Foley has some short high level pair of articles resulting from an interview with Rob Short . Rob is one of the VPs in the relatively new Windows Core OS Division (COSD), of which our Embedded team is a part of. In Part 1 she provides an overview
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Found some interesting XPe related info based on an article on Linux devices (though this is not a linux specific post). Neoware has announced their own version of our Remote Boot technology for XP Embedded, they call it Image Manager . The basic concept
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Based on a customer comment made in a request to Mike Hall yesterday it appears that mails sent to us via the contact link at the top of the blog were falling into the bit bucket . This issue has probably been occurring since the Community Server upgrade
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Scoble gets 10 minutes of Steve Ballmer's time for some softball and hardball questions. Check it out , it's all about the developers, developers, developers...as it should be. - Andy
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Here’s an interesting topic I came across recently: Say you have a standalone, non-networked machine with a CompactFlash (CF) drive serving as your boot partition. This machine runs a program that needs to periodically update and persist a single data
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Sean Liming has componentized Firefox. If you're not familiar with it, Firefox is the open source browser produced by the Mozilla foundation. - Andy
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Kiosk Marketplace has an article describing the 'chicken and egg' syndrome facing the retail space today, the migration to biometric authentication and the world's move to a cashless society. Here's an intro quote: Several new commercial offerings take
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When we last left off in this process to componentize Winamp Lite , we had created a component with file resources, registry resources and component dependencies. We had also added the Group and Repository object dependencies as well. Now the component
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