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October 2006 - Posts

XP Embedded Gets Its Second Wind
Feature Pack 2007 RTM'd! The Eval version is available for download right now from the download center. The Retail version is winding its way through the processes to be posted to the OEM Secure site. The bits are the same, the license wrapped around Read More...
Building an image on a machine with x64 installation of windows
Windows XP Embedded Tools are 32 bit apps and are run as a wow64 process on a x64 installation of windows. When a wow64 process writes values containing %ProgramFiles% or %CommonProgramFiles% to the registry, the wow64 registry redirection logic remaps Read More...
Embedded Processor Survey
Here’s an interesting survey of processors used for embedded products. The key points I gleaned from it are: 54% of the products use at least one 32bit processor. 27% of the products run "some flavor of Windows." Nearly all applications running above Read More...
Wind River Blog Network
Some of our customers enjoy more than one flavor of operating system in their shop, sometimes this may go to the extreme from Windows XP Embedded to the other end of the spectrum of Wind River. Wind River has put together a really nice blog network that Read More...
REGISTER FOR THE LAUNCH EVENT OF FEATURE PACK 2007 ON NOVEMBER 1,2006!
If you haven't registered for the virtual launch event on Nov 1, 2006 for Windows XP Embedded SP2 Feature Pack 2007, together with Windows Embedded CE 6.0, hurry up and register here now. Craig Mundie, Chief Research & Strategy Officer of Microsoft, Read More...
Advanced Scenario: USB El Torito (Booting from USB CD-ROM)
XP Embedded Feature Pack 2007 introduces the new USB 2.0 Boot component, which makes it possible to boot a fully operational runtime from a USB thumbdrive, disk-on-key, uDOC, etc. So far, it appears to be working very well for quite a few people, and Read More...
MOM's the word
It seems like a lot of teams are eager to finish out the year with a flurry of releases. Well, the MOM (Microsoft Operations Manager) team also had an early Christmas present for the XP Embedded community in September- they released support for MOM 2005 Read More...
Chat Four! Chat for You!
The second Community Tech Preview of Feature Pack 2007 was released last week. If you haven’t downloaded and tested it out, do it now and enjoy the exciting ride of new features and fixes added to it. More details can be found in this blog article . Our Read More...
Multicore Licensing in XP Embedded
With the advent of dual-core processors (and with even more cores on the way – Intel recently announced an *80*-core processor they hope to have in production within 5 years), I imagine some of you are probably asking how product licensing works. Some Read More...
Windows XP Embedded Service Pack 2 Feature Pack 2007 Second Community Tech Preview Released!
After the hard work of the team in the last 2 months or so, here we are excited to announce the second Community Tech Preview (CTP) is available for download! Yes, it’s right on time! Up to date, we have around 1500 downloads of the first CTP and 60 bugs Read More...
XP Embedded Image Difference Engine Evaluation
Windows XP Embedded Image Difference Engine Evaluation Interesting title, huh! What am I supposed to do with such a thing?! You can upgrade your device from Service Pack 1 to Service Pack 2 or Feature Pack 2007. Not convinced yet? Just imagine that you Read More...
Component Enhancements in Windows XP Embedded SP2 Feature Pack 2007
Lynda is too modest to post something about herself so I'll do it for her :-) The product team is writing a series of articles for WindowsForDevices about various aspects of the Feature Pack. If you've installed the TechPreview version then you're familiar Read More...
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