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April 2008 - Posts

New Names are Coming!
Last week at the Embedded Systems Conference Microsoft unveiled a road map that outlines new names for the Windows Embedded Business products and announced plans for new solutions in key device categories. Our General Manager, Kevin Dallas, stated that Read More...
Carbon Grove: An Environmentally Themed Campaign By Internet Explorer
Do your part for environment and a better internet ecosystem! To commemorate Earth Day, April 22 nd , Internet Explorer has launched an environmentally themed campaign called Carbon Grove . Windows Internet Explorer has partnered with a carbon reduction Read More...
Earth Day, Every Day
I didn’t know yesterday, April 22, was the Earth Day of 2008 until I received the April Newsletter from Imagine Cup late last night. But I did turn off the light as usual when I left the office. That newsletter also brought me to the lively Microsoft Read More...
Reminder - Live MSDN Chat tomorrow
Please join our product team for a discussion tomorrow where we’ll cover some key hot topics from the XPe forums and newsgroups. This chat will take place from 10am-11am (PST). We will of course still welcome ANY question related to XP Embedded during Read More...
No Optional Updates This Month (April)
The Embedded team has been working hard on some exciting development projects. We gave consideration to the optional updates we might provide, and found there weren’t many candidates for consideration at this time, and the value-add of those candidates Read More...
April Security Updates are Available
The April 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. April 2008 Windows XP Embedded Read More...
Live MSDN Chat- April 24th
Spring is the perfect season for chatting! Please join our product team for a discussion where we’ll cover some key hot topics from the XPe forums and newsgroups. This chat will take place on Thursday, April 24 th from 10am-11am (PST). We will of course Read More...
Day One of ESC Silicon Valley
Well, I suppose it is really day 1/2, as today's sessions were mostly pre-conference sessions for most participants. However, the Windows Embedded team started our regular conference series of breakout sessions and things seem to be going smoothly. Mike Read More...
Kudo's to Ampro
One of XP Embedded's partners, Ampro, achieved Silver Level status recently. Windows Embedded partners are ranked as either Partners, Silver Level Partners or Gold Level Partners. Ampro is a leading supplier of board-level embedded computers. They chose Read More...
IDE Duplicator for CompactFlash and IDE Devices
The latest production tool from Datasound Laboratories shaves hours from typical production cycles. According to their advert: " Gone are the days of time-consuming serial programming; now you can program up to 10 storage devices at once, in seconds! Read More...
ASUS EEE PC Running XPe, fun PC!
As part of an ongoing effort on the Windows Embedded team, our management encourages us to seek out new relevant devices to our industry to get a chance to understand these new devices and see how our products may apply. One of these new gadgets that Read More...
Creating a Bootable WinPE Image and use it to run TAP.exe.
Last Friday, our fearless Group Program Manager, Mike Glass held the first PM Offsite for Windows Embedded, this offsite was designed for the PM team to take a break from our “day jobs” and get into deep technical depth into specific technologies the Read More...
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