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Windows Embedded CE 6.0 R3 has been released to the web – here’s a link to the download page Windows Embedded CE 6.0 R3 includes the following new features: • Silverlight for Windows Embedded The power of Silverlight brought to Windows Embedded CE to
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Today at ESC East (Boston) Kevin Dallas, the General Manager of the Windows Embedded Business presented a keynote presentation (I missed the keynote, was flying from Seattle to Boston) that covered a number of announcements (all are listed on the following
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Check out the Toshiba JournE touch multimedia tablet on Engadget - The device has a 7 inch display, supports multiple codecs, including H.264, DivX, WMV, supports 802.11b/g Wifi, some of your favorite social applications including YouTube, FaceBook,
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A preview of Windows Embedded Standard 2011 (based on Windows 7) is available for download from the Microsoft Connect site - http://connect.microsoft.com/windowsembedded . Windows Embedded Standard 2011 delivers the latest Windows 7 technologies to OEMs,
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Check out the blog post and video over on John Coyne’s blog , bSquare have just finished working on a touch screen enabled Coke vending machine. - Mike
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Here’s a snapshot of the final day at Imagine Cup. Next year the Imagine Cup goes to Poland – more information here . - Mike
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Check out this Engadget article – If Microsoft made toasters Interestingly the toaster has a Microsoft Dynamics logo on the side… Perhaps this is the best thing since sliced bread… - Mike
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Saul Hansel, “Bits Editor” for the New York Times has just posted an article to the NY Yimes web site called Microsoft wants gadgets to run Windows Here’s some quotes from the article which I think is based on the Microsoft keynote from Computex in Taiwan
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Make magazine have started building a green building monitoring system based on Windows CE and one of the SPARK hardware kits. You can follow along with the project on the SPARK blog . - Mike
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We recently posted the CE 6.0 Virtual PC Binary BSP to the MSDN Code Gallery – I wanted to build something interesting using the Virtual PC BSP, so decided to build the obvious digital picture frame application with a twist. Virtual PC supports serial
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I presented a session at TechEd yesterday called “Windows Embedded: From Sensors to Servers” – the session was based around the Beckhoff CE 6.0 hard real-time wobbly stick demo . The demo is much more than just proving the real-time capability of CE 6.0,
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Here’s a snip from Rockwell Automation’s site - Web-enabled access to plant-floor systems is increasingly important as you look to monitor and manage your production systems from remote locations. With Rockwell Automation's web-enabled HMI solutions,
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Check out this autonomous tank on Hack A Day – this is another cool/interesting project from those chaps at Georgia Tech. The Tank is running on an ICOP eBox 2300 , uses Phidgets sensors and a Logitech QuickCam Pro 5000 USB camera and runs Windows Embedded
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Windows CE is a hard real-time embedded operating system, need proof? – read on… Dedicated Systems Experts have completed an independent real-time analysis of the Windows Embedded CE 6.0 product – here’s a link to their report . Here’s some comments from
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There were a number of interesting announcements made at the ESC West keynote yesterday – Kevin Dallas, general manager of the Windows Embedded Business presented the general session. Here’s a list of the announcements. MSDN Embedded Subscription Windows
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