February 2009 - Posts
**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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"It is cool. I like it!" This was the response when I asked a friend "Have you tried Windows 7 Beta?" Windows 7 Beta was released quite a while ago and many of us have installed and used it, even on our main machines. We have heard very good reviews about
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The Embedded Windows Security Updates , targeted to release by the 4 th Tuesday of the month (today) are going to be delayed by a few days. The product team is taking on the componentization development work that enables the security updates to apply
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It’s time for Mail Call so we’ll try something different and dip into the mail bag to see what great questions are on your mind. Our first piece of mail comes to us from a developer across the Atlantic. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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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 English language version of the Microsoft Certification Program (MCP) exam for Windows Embedded Standard 2009 rolled out last week at Prometric Testing Centers worldwide. Coming in April - Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Korean, German, and French.
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One of the device categories I don’t know a lot about is NAS – Network Area Storage. One thing I do know about it is that LaCie is one of the top storage device manufacturers in the world and delivers some of those devices running XP Embedded. Today I
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I’ve been meaning to try out the WES 2009 Tools on Windows 7 for a while and today I finally had the opportunity to test the mix together. If you’ve installed the Windows Embedded Standard 2009 Tools and Database on Windows 7 we’d like to hear about your
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Yes, it does seem a little early to be talking about TechEd North America as it only takes place from May 11-15, 2009 in Los Angeles. However, I want to alert you to the Pre-Conference sessions that take place the day before the conference officially
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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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What it is: Microsoft Support Lifecycle policy is the Microsoft standard for product support availability throughout a product’s life. Quoting the Lifecycle policy page: “By understanding the product support available, customers are better able to maximize
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Last week our Test team had some fun creating a short video as part of an in-house Microsoft competition amongst all the test groups. For the video we relied on the acting talents of two of the Authorities in Test – Alan Page and BJ Rollins. It
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I ran across this great utility recently announced by Mike Kolitz that will convert your WIM file into a VHD. How cool is that? You can get WIM2VHD here along with the usage docs for it, here is Mike’s blog article announcing it as well. Video: Introduction
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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'm a program Manager with the Windows Embedded Standard team working on the write filters – Enhanced Write Filter (EWF) , File Based Write Filter (FBWF) , and Registry Filter . I have been with Microsoft for almost 9 years, but just joined the Embedded
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To better reach our Russian speaking customers, we recently experimented with localizing one of our screen cast videos about Windows Embedded Standard 2009 in Russian. The Microsoft Video Beta site doesn’t support videos in languages other than English
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One of the really important tools to use to ensure that your applications have a high quality is AppVerifier. This blog is aimed at enhancing your interest in AppVerifier so that you spend time investigating it, learning about it, talking about it, sounding
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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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