September 2008 - Posts
One of the DQI packages, KB938464, in the September 2008 XPe securty update release fails to install on an XPe image properly. The installation succeeds however, the files are not copied. This is because of the presence of the MinimizeFootprint key in
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One of the biggest image footprint impact areas is in regards to “SWEnums” or “ Software Enumerated Devices ”. (pronounced “Swee-numbs”) “How do these get into my image?” you may ask? There’s a simple
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The September 2008 Windows XP Embedded Security Updates are now available on the ECE for Microsoft® Windows® XP Embedded with Service Pack 2, Feature Pack 2007, and/or Update Rollup 1.0. The downloads are cumulative and include updates
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The Embedded System Conference in Boston in taking place from October 26-30th, 2008. Currently our team is working on scoping the presentation sessions and labs for our Embedded Windows track. We aim to publish the descriptions for our sessions live on
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I’m one of the Program Managers working on the Windows Embedded team and am investigating the various deployment/boot scenarios that we would like to support moving forward. CD boot is something that we released for XP Embedded to satisfy some of our
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Back in June this year, I joined other members of the team and participated in the TechEd conference held in Florida. It was great to be able to contribute to one of the biggest events organized by Microsoft since I joined the company last year. I had
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The August 2008 Windows XP Embedded Optional Updates are now available on the ECE for Microsoft® Windows® XP Embedded with Service Pack 2, Feature Pack 2007 and/or Update Rollup 1.0. Note: Optional updates are separate from the Security updates
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Yes you read it right - 3.11. According to the msdn blog by John Coyne OEM licensing for 3.1 will no longer be allowed as of November 1st, 2008. If you are wondering who cares about a 15 years old OS then the windows embedded industry is apparently not
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For those of you that were too busy working (or maybe sleeping due to the timezone difference!) to join us for our latest MSDN chat session on August 28th, you can now read the transcript here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/chats/cc896558.aspx .
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A companion device to the TV, Anobar is one of the first FED based devices that has been prototyped. The long, thin 640 x 94-pixel screen serves as a ticker displaying real-time information pulled in from the internet and even has a live chat about what
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I don't think there's a developer alive today who hasn't, at one time or another, struggled with a bug that, no matter how much you review your code and decide the code is correct, trace through it and debug it, you just can't figure it out. A bug
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