February 2007 - Posts
The February 2007 Windows XP Embedded monthly supplement Updates are now available on the Mobile & Embedded Communications Extranet (ECE) for OEMs who purchase through Distribution (OEMs with a direct license agreement with MS will continue to access
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As the XP Embedded product has evolved into more and more versions over its lifetime I find that it can sometimes be somewhat of a challenge to remember which repository GUID belongs to which version of the product. This can be important when you are
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XP Embedded SP2 "Feature Preview 2008 " released this week, and so the focus of the next chat is going to be answering your questions and listening to your feedback on it. We have scheduled it for Tuesday, March 6 2007 at 10am PST in order to give you
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You may have already seen the various announcements posted on the ECE site or on the old OEM secure site in November regarding SP1 support ending in April 2007. To review the announcement, visit the ECE link above, and navigate to Communications >
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If you've been wanting to try out Windows Media Player 11 , Internet Explorer 7 , .NET 3.0 Framework , Remote Desktop Protocol 6.0 , or User-Mode Driver Framework (UMDF) on Windows XP Embedded, here is your chance! Windows XP Embedded SP2 "Feature Preview
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For those of you that might have missed our January MSDN chat, the transcript is now available for viewing here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/chats/transcripts/mobileembedded/07_0130_msdn_xpembed.aspx . Thank you to everyone that joined in on the chat! We
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Today our sister team (the Vertical Industries group) announced the release of their latest product, namely POS for .NET 1.1. For more details on this release visit their blog site . For more details on the Windows Embedded Point of Service product (that
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As most of my last few posts have been about the re-factoring work done in FP2007 you may all be aware that there may be large and small differences in your FP2007 runtimes- large differences may be that IE is no longer coming into the runtime and small
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If you have participated in past Windows XP Embedded Community Technology Previews (like Feature Pack 2007 and Image Difference Engine) then you should have received an email announcing that in a few weeks we will be launching a new CTP for Windows XP
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Embedded.com is reporting that flash memory prices are expected to tumble "by a whopping 65 percent". The article goes on to say: "NAND (Flash Memory) was in a state of severe oversupply throughout 2006, and the problems have apparently spilled over into
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You have probably have seen newsletters, such as DevWire, InfoBlast, from our marketing team. KUKA , one of the companies that provide real-time solutions for Windows, also offers free newsletters on their products. You can subscribe at their site . Their
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A customer raised an issue a few weeks ago about RunOnceEx no longer working in a configuration that had been upgraded to XPe Feature Pack 2007. The customer was generous enough to supply some work-around steps with his bug report. I saw that the issue
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In a previous blog post on the re-factoring changes that were done for FP2007 I listed out the components that were re-factored. One of these was Internet Explorer. Now generally I would say that most customers are happy not to have IE coming into most
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