December 2008 - Posts
Hi there! First of all – a quick intro: I’m Oren Winter and I am the development manager of the Windows Embedded Standard team. I’ve been with Microsoft and the embedded team for 6.5 years now but this is my first post in this blog.
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An easy way to find new drivers in Windows Embedded Standard is to search by driver version. Because the new drivers (and components) in Windows Embedded Standard are version 6000, you can find and filter the drivers in Target Designer by using 6000 as
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**Updated 3/26/09 with preface [The following article is authored by one of the Windows Embedded MVPs (Most Valuable Professionals). Our MVPs have a heavy background in Embedded systems and are a great repository of information on Windows Embedded products.
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The December 2008 Windows XP Embedded Security Updates are now available on the ECE for Microsoft® Windows® XP Embedded with Service Pack 2, Feature Pack 2007, Update Rollup 1.0. Also included this month are updates for XPe SP3 and Windows Embedded Standard
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The Redmond offices of Microsoft are actually closed today, as well as tomorrow, for the holidays, but the beauty of blogs is that I can still publish an article even if I am not actually at work <grin>. I'd like to send good wishes from the whole
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**Updated 3/26/09 with preface [The following article is authored by one of the Windows Embedded MVPs (Most Valuable Professionals). Our MVPs have a heavy background in Embedded systems and are a great repository of information on Windows Embedded products.
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Just in time for a little light holiday reading - the transcript from the Windows Embedded Standard MSDN Chat is live at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/chats/dd365301.aspx ! We had a pretty light attendance for this month's chat, but we still managed
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As some may be aware, Microsoft released a critical security update for the desktop operating systems yesterday to address a vulnerability in IE. This update was released outside of Microsoft's usual release schedule. The Windows Sustained Engineering
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If you are using XPe Feature Pack 2007 (FP2007) you will know that we did a lot of re-factoring work in that release in order to optimize runtime footprint. Specifically we targeted the worst offenders- those components that were most commonly brought
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**Updated 3/26/09 with preface [The following article is authored by one of the Windows Embedded MVPs (Most Valuable Professionals). Our MVPs have a heavy background in Embedded systems and are a great repository of information on Windows Embedded products.
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In this busy holiday season we are wrapping up the work surrounding the Windows Embedded Standard 2009 and Windows XP Embedded Service Pack 3 releases. We are putting the final touches on the December Security roll-ups to bring these products up to date
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Here's a video of a case study done with Wyse Thin Client devices that helped Hilton Hotels slash their call center costs. This is a compelling scenario, send your call center agents home, have them vpn into the Hilton corp network via Thin Client devices,
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Please make sure to block out time on your calendar tomorrow ( December 9th from 10-11am PST ) to join the Windows Embedded Standard team for a live MSDN Chat. With the recent release of Windows Embedded Standard 2009, the engineering and marketing teams
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**Updated 3/26/09 with preface [The following article is authored by one of the Windows Embedded MVPs (Most Valuable Professionals). Our MVPs have a heavy background in Embedded systems and are a great repository of information on Windows Embedded products.
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I absolutely love Virtual Machines, they give you the ability to test out an Image before having to launch onto actual hardware. Previously, we’ve shown you how to deploy an XPe or Standard image into a VHD with a simple tool called VHDMount . After
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The November 2008 Windows XP Embedded Security Updates are now available on the ECE for Microsoft® Windows® XP Embedded with Service Pack 2 and/or Feature Pack 2007. The downloads are cumulative and include updates for the Desktop QFE
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**Updated 3/26/09 with preface [The following article is authored by one of the Windows Embedded MVPs (Most Valuable Professionals). Our MVPs have a heavy background in Embedded systems and are a great repository of information on Windows Embedded products.
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By now you’ve probably seen that the Service Pack 3 update for Windows XP Embedded has released. Additionally for those of you who have purchased Windows Embedded Standard 2009, you should be receiving, or have already received, the Standard software.
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