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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
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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
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I stumbled on this short post to an mp3car.com forum (see my previous article about these hobbyists). In this new post, user joepetz shows off a YouTube video of his XPe image booting via HORM on his 'Carputer'. He also demos some of the StreetDeck software
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A recent post in the XP Embedded forum highlighted an issue related to running vb scripts on Embedded runtimes that I meant to blog about... so here it is! It seems a bug fix that was incorporated into SP2 was only a partial fix (for whatever reason).
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Based on a thread in the WFD forums, Sean Liming started keeping track of CF devices "that just work" for XPe. This question comes up all the time, wrt which CF's have had performance issues, burnout too soon, won't boot, etc...The problem here though
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Unlike my difficulties over defining the Kiosk device category, defining the Set Top Box is more cut and dry. The information below was collected by browsing dozens of product brochures from 8 different manufacturers, browsing many STB OEM/ISV web sites,
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What is a Kiosk? If you asked a hundred embedded developers to think of what the word “kiosk” means to them and asked them to define the software features of a kiosk you’ll likely wind up with dozens of broad answers. My basic definition of a Kiosk is
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