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If you haven't installed the Windows Embedded Standard Community Technology Preview (CTP) that was available on 6/2/08 then you're missing out on a lot of new stuff. New features have been added, existing features enhanced, improvements made to both the
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At the TechEd Developers' Conference last week I was chatting to a very interesting software engineer about their device that is utilizing XP Embedded - it is a submersible sonar device that is dragged in the water next to a ship and gathers information
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A few years back, Andy wrote a series of articles describing how to componentize a 3rd party application. In Part 5 of the article, he described how to use Dependency Walker to identify the first order dependencies. But in Part 6 , he reveals that the
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Virtual PC provides an amazing way to test XPe runtimes. We use it quite often to debug , test and demonstrate. However, deploying a runtime into a VHD is not that straight forward; you need either an Operating System in another partition of the VM or
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The evening of April 29 2008 Seattle Time, or the morning of April 30 in China, while most of the team had gone home, I hid myself in the office and delivered my first webcast to MSDN China customers on XPe Componentization through my little laptop. The
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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
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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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Today we had our first PM Offsite event, sponsored by our new leader . It is very exciting to see how much the PM team has grown since I joined in 2006 (note the halo above the team). The purpose of the event is for PMs to stop their busy day jobs and
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There are only 3 weeks left until the Embedded Systems Conference (Silicon Valley), held this year in San Jose from April 14-18th. That means there is still time for you to register to attend!. There are a number of price packages available, depending
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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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Mike Glass recently joined our team as our Group Program Manager for Embedded Windows (XPe). He has just started a blog that he hopes to post to at least once a week- see his latest postings from his recent trip to the European Microsoft Innovation Center
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If you ever wondered how life looks like working at Microsoft, check out this video from on10.net which should reveal the “truth” :). Now want to order the “Moon” that Tina ordered? Come on board, join our Dev team or Test Team ! Weijuan
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How often do you get an e-mail where somebody says "this is cool" and provides a link to a web site or a video? "Yea, yea, it’s probably cool but I’ve got work to do" is my usual response. However, the other day I noticed at the bottom of a "cool" e-mail
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I am writing this from sunny South Africa where I am combining some business with my vacation. It is almost 2pm here and the Marketing Department of Microsoft South Africa in Johannesburg is buzzing (they kindly lent me a desk to work from for 9 days).
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My first post of the year, it seems! I have been spending quite a bit of time this last week prodding the product team to submit ideas for content for some of the events coming up this year. Currently we are brainstorming on what topics we can include
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