June 2007 - Posts
Before joining Microsoft I worked for almost 8 years in the automotive industry developing various embedded devices. One fascinating and not generally known aspect of automotive electronics is in-vehicle networks. In-vehicle networks enable communication
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Overview HME ( Home Media Ecosystem ) is new with Windows Media Player 11 . This feature allows a Windows-based system to serve streaming media to client devices, which can be Windows Vista systems or other embedded devices (such as an Xbox 360). HME
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This is a continuation of the article I wrote here . This part focuses on the utilities that you can add to your toolbox which will help you ensure quality for drivers for which you do have source code access. Both of these tools are used during compile
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Thanks to everyone who joined us for our last chat session on June 12 th . If you weren’t able to make it, you can now read the transcript of the chat on the MSDN site here . We had a several questions about the new features available in the Windows XP
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When I entered the speakers party this evening (well, Seattle's this morning), I was congratulated by Qi the local Content Owner that I won the 1st place among lab speakers according to participants survey. WOW, that was really surprising and exciting
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I fe el great that I finally finished my 1st day of MEDC China. You won't believe that I actually did 2 presentations (one on XPe Intro and one on XPe F uture) and 2 instructor-led labs (Componentization E2E and XPe I ntro) in a row this afternoon, plus
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The June 2007 Microsoft Windows XP Embedded Supplement Updates are now available on the Mobile & Embedded Communications Extranet (ECE) for Microsoft® Windows® XP Embedded Service Pack 2, and Feature Pack 2007, as well as Microsoft® Windows® Embedded
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While Lynda and Randy finished up their MEDC India trip, I have started my MEDC China trip over the weekend. I have had a busy Monday and Tuesday here in Beijing, meeting internal partners, such as the University Relationship teams in Microsoft Research
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Techmela is taking place currently in Mumbai. This event combines 3 Microsoft events, namely MEDC, TechEDdand ITG, into one "uber-event". Today I was scheduled to deliver one MEDC session for folks in the Embedded Device track (Componentizing Applications
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I have just finished up the first day of TechMela - http://www.techmela.com (or MEDC) in India. This year is the first time that MEDC has traveled to India and the event is being combined with 2 other Microsoft events in Mumbai, specifically at the Rennaissance
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While rooting around in my mail folders, I found an item from last year that makes a great follow-up to my Fundamental Parallelism posting. In March of '06 Herb Sutter gave a talk at the renowned Palo Alto Research Center titled "Software and the Concurrency
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The Update Rollup 1.0 for Windows XP Embedded is now available for download on the Mobile & Embedded Communications Extranet (ECE). Update Rollup 1.0 extends Windows XP Embedded Service Pack 2 Feature Pack 2007 providing developers with new Windows
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Is It Componentized For XP Embedded Yet? Download the Safari Beta3 for XP and Vista here. Hey, this time it's not an XPe/Mac April Fool's Joke . - Andy
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This is a reminder that we are hosting a MSDN online chat tomorrow (6/12/07) morning, from 10-11 a.m. PDT. Come join the product team in the MSDN Chat room to discuss Windows XP Embedded, ask questions, and give us feedback. You can join the chat directly
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As some of you probably have known, TechEd 2007 is happening in Orlando this week. Deci R. in this XPe Forum post asked if anyone from our team will be there. Unfortunately the answer is no. There are 3 sessions on Windows Embedded (including CE, XPe,
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Recently published on Embedded.com is a two part article on the subject of parallel programming. Written by two Intel engineers, Part 1 gives a good introduction to the subject and describes the various architectural approaches to parallelism using analogies
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A question arose a few weeks back about how can third parties ensure that the drivers included in their XPe runtime installation are of the highest quality. Considering that more than likely the people who are building a device are not the device driver
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ATLabs has shipped what they're claiming is to be the world's first thin client notebook, the NB-6500 and it's running XPe. The markets they're targeting are Education, Libraries, Healthcare, Hospitality, Quality Control, Mobile Enterprise. The brochure
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