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March 2008 - Posts

About Unicode Enabling Applications and Code Pages
A few days ago, when I received an email from a friend, I could not recognize any of the characters in the email. It turned out that the web email has a feature - the user can set encoding for emails. The auto-select encoding did not choose the correct Read More...
This is fun!
Today we had our first PM Offsite event, sponsored by our new leader . It is very exciting to see how much the PM team has grown since I joined in 2006 (note the halo above the team). The purpose of the event is for PMs to stop their busy day jobs and Read More...
Don't Forget to Register for ESC West!
There are only 3 weeks left until the Embedded Systems Conference (Silicon Valley), held this year in San Jose from April 14-18th. That means there is still time for you to register to attend!. There are a number of price packages available, depending Read More...
March Security Updates (for DQI) Now Avaliable
The March 2008 Windows XP Embedded Security Updates are now available on the Mobile & Embedded Communications Extranet (ECE) for Microsoft® Windows® XP Embedded Service Pack 2, Feature Pack 2007, and Update Rollup 1.0. March 2008 Windows XP Embedded Read More...
More Embedded Engineers, Please
Proving that snail mail is still good for some things, I found an excellent article in the March, 2008 issue of IEEE-USA Today’s Engineer I just pulled out of my mail box. In the article Help wanted: Embedded Engineers , Mark Anderson describes embedded Read More...
Moving Your XPe Database File To A New Location
In the newsgroup today I came across this post, here's the original question and my answer below that (but in this blog post I actually cleaned up some of my original typos :-) ). Question from the NG: I recently installed the Embedded Studio, and must Read More...
New Leader on Embedded Windows Team
Mike Glass recently joined our team as our Group Program Manager for Embedded Windows (XPe). He has just started a blog that he hopes to post to at least once a week- see his latest postings from his recent trip to the European Microsoft Innovation Center Read More...
Macro Pre-Requisite Component for SCCM Client is Now Available
The System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) team has released a macro component that populates the required dependent components in your runtime, to enable installation of the SCCM 2007 client once the runtime has run through FBA. This macro component Read More...
The February Optional Updates are Now Also Available
The February 2008 Windows XP Embedded Optional Updates are now available on the Mobile & Embedded Communications Extranet (ECE) for Microsoft® Windows® XP Embedded Service Pack 2, Feature Pack 2007, and Update Rollup 1.0. February 2008 Windows XP Read More...
February Security Updates are Now Available
The February 2008 Windows XP Embedded Security Updates are now available on the Mobile & Embedded Communications Extranet (ECE) for Microsoft® Windows® XP Embedded Service Pack 2, Feature Pack 2007, and Update Rollup 1.0. February 2008 Windows XP Read More...
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