May 2007 - Posts
Today Microsoft announced "Surface Computing" which is being developed by the Productivity and Extended Consumer Experiences Group (the same group that Embedded technologies lives in) - what is Surface Computing? to quote Tom Gibbons, VP of the division
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Do you have tough technical questions regarding Windows Embedded CE 6.0 for which you're seeking answers? Do you want to tap into the deep knowledge of the talented Microsoft Embedded Devices Group members? If so, please join us for a live chat and bring
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The Programming with the .NET Micro Framework book is now available to order online , if you want to get a feel for the contents of the book then you may be interested in taking a look at Chapter 4 online (hosted by the .NET Developer's Journal ) - Mik
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The .NET Micro Framework book which is authored by Donald Thompson and Rob Miles is done and is being printed right now, perhaps it's time to head over to Amazon and place an order for the book . Book Description Learn how to use the Microsoft .NET Micro
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The Channel9 guys recently dropped into the Microsoft Robotics Studio team to take a look at CCR, DSS, VPL and other three letter things - take a look at the video here . - Mike
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Windows Desktop (XP/Vista) and Windows Mobile have the benefit of being a well defined application platform, if you write an application to run on Windows Vista then you know that the same application will also run on another PC running Vista, if you
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Today was our second, and last day in NZ, last evening we presented a mini-MEDC at the local convention center covering Windows Mobile and Windows Embedded tools and technologies - today we had a series of customer meetings, and had an hour or so over
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Today (May 17th) we (that's Don Kerr, Rob Tiffany, Derek Snyder , and I) had an 8:30am flight from Sydney to Christchurch/NZ for the mini-MEDC event - since this is an international flight we arranged to be at the airport by 7:00am - It was a little foggy
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MEDC Australia is now done, I had a great time in Sydney, it's been a tough schedule, arriving from Seattle the day before rehearsals, then the event, and customer meetings today . There were four sessions on the Windows Embedded track, these were: Windows
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After we completed MEDC rehearsals it was time to get some top shelf tucker out with a few mates who are also working at the event. While walking back to the hotel I noticed a fountain that looked oddly familiar, almost as if I'd been here before, perhaps
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MEDC 2007 Australia/New Zealand kicks off tomorrow morning (Tuesday 15th May), today we've been at the Microsoft Sydney office and have been rehearsing the keynote and sessions for MEDC. Security at the Microsoft office is amazing, take a look at the
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Finally Steve Hegenderfer ( Hulk Hogan ) from the Windows Mobile team has a blog up and running - Steve is the image on the right of the blog banner. Steve works with Windows Mobile partners, I'm sure there's going to be some pearls of wisdom on the blog
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It's my first week on the job as Architect for the Windows Embedded Business - I'm pretty pleased that within the first week I've completed my first project . - Mike
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Last week at MEDC in Las Vegas I presented a lab on application development for Windows CE using the Microsoft Foundation Classes (MFC). The common theme of questions after the session were around support for MFC and end of life for MFC, many people attending
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It's time for me to move to a new job within Microsoft, don't worry, I'm not leaving the Embedded group, in fact I'm moving into a role that gets me even closer to the Embedded tools and technologies than I have been for the last six years in my current
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As soon as the Sumo Robotics competition finished I managed to grab an interview with Joseph Fernando, an Architect on the Microsoft Robotics Studio team to talk about the competition and Robotics Studio. - Mike
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At the end of each round of the Sumo Robotics Competition we managed to grab an interview with the competitor that had been knocked out of the competition . Here's part one of the interviews. and part two... It's interesting to see that everyone that
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Here's a set of photos from this years MEDC Sumo Robotics competition - thanks to Vetala Hawkins (the official event photographer for taking some amazing shots from the event). The first photo really captures the excitement of watching vacuum cleaners
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Just been checking out Darryl Burling's blog - there's a mini-MEDC event coming to NZ on May 17th. Speakers at the event will be Derek Snyder (windows mobile) and Mike Hall (windows embedded). Hope to see you all there! - Mike
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CE 6.0 Service Pack 1 has been released to the web - the service pack includes updates to support the CE 6.0 tools on Windows Vista, support for eXDI 2.0, a new Remote Tools Framework, and CEDebugX a really neat tool to help find and resolve deadlocks
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This year introduces another way for speakers to be competitive, not content with just seeing who the best speakers are, this year Derek introduced the Windows Mobile vs. Windows Embedded chart... Congratulations must go to Doug Boling for taking the
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Check out the interview with Scott Holden, Product Unit Manager for the .NET Compact Framework Team showing Silverlight running on a Windows Mobile device. - Mike
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Here's the MEDC Sumo Robotics Final - the announcer for the competition was Michael Buffer ! (listen out for the famous "Let's get ready to rumble" just before the final round begins. I interviewed all of the people taking part in the competition, the
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Here's a video montage of last nights Sumo Robotics Competition... More videos on the way... Congratulations to Brian Warren on winning the competition! - Mike
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The Windows Mobile team are running a survey, they don't have prizes or T-Shirts to hand out but do want to get feedback from you - if you have a few minutes to spare then head over to the Windows Mobile Survey . - Mike
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We're running a number of embedded (and mobile) instructor led labs at MEDC - these labs are always popular, it's a great way for attendees to get "Hands on" with the tools/technologies, and at the same time have the developers, architects, testers that
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Here's Derek interviewing the Windows Embedded CE Product Manager, Dan Javnoson - so what is Windows Embedded CE ? - Mike
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Derek Snyder interviews John Doyle, the Windows XP Embedded Product Manager - find out what's new and interesting with Windows XP Embedded. - Mike
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Joseph Fernando is one of the Architects working on Microsoft Robotics Studio, we've just released a Community Tech Preview of Robotics Studio 1.5 which now supports CE 6.0 and Windows Mobile. Here's David Lee from the Robotics Studio team talking about
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Rob Tiffany (Senior Technical Product Manager, Windows Mobile) has built a server rack with thousand of clients to show how Windows Mobile on the front end and SQL/Exchange can scale across the Enterprise - check out the video. Rob had this server rack
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Straight after the keynote there are typically a set of "General Sessions" covering Windows Mobile, Windows CE, Windows XP Embedded etc... - The Windows Embedded CE session was delivered by Ilya Bukshteyn (Director, Windows Embedded Marketing) and David
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Yep, it's MEDC 2007 time again, we've just completed the first day (and at the time of this posting, the second day of the event kicks off in about six hours!). If you are attending the event I'd really like to hear all of your comments about the event,
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Here's some shots of the MEDC 2007 keynote, we get to see Derek Snyder talking about Windows Mobile, Visual Studio Codename "Orcas", Mike (that's me) talking about Sumo Robots running CE 6.0 and being programmed using Microsoft Robotics Studio, and Robbie
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This is a pretty interesting look behind the scenes of the MEDC 2007 keynote, we get to see behind the stage (way too much gear!), Derek in rehearsals, interviews with Robbie Bach (and Derek), and Derek, James, and I having some quick breakfast about
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Derek provides a walk through of his keynote demos, and we get cut off by the event producers to start yet another keynote rehearsal. - Mike
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During the MEDC keynote we had three Embedded specific demos, the first was around Robotics and CE 6.0, the second was a solution built by Clarity Consulting for Windows XP Embedded which includes a WPF based UI (built in Expression Blend), SQL Compact
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Take a look at more of the exhibit hall on setup day and hear from some of the exhibitors at MEDC 2007. Interesting comment from Beckhoff about moving from CE 5.0 to CE 6.0 and the performance increase they gained from moving to the latest version! -
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The MEDC Podcast team are out talking to attendees, speakers (and quite frankly anyone else they can point their cameras at!). Check out the comments from some of the attendees that the Podcast crew on the pre-conference tutorial day. - Mike
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The Windows Mobile team and Daniel Wagner have come up with an interesting application which can be used at conferences to locate session rooms and also provide a conference wide game to locate and find 'hidden gems' within the conference - check out
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Last year at MEDC we had a Plasma screen in the speaker lounge which showed the top speaker scores and some of the comments from attendees - this was a huge hit with the speakers, this year Derek Snyder has gone that one step further! - not only does
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The MEDC 2007 Video Podcast continues - check out the interview with Robbie Bach the evening before the MEDC keynote. More video interviews coming over the next couple of days - keep an eye on the MEDC 2007 Blog to see more. Here's some photos from the
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