September 2005 - Posts
Today I recorded three podcast interviews, I've just started reviewing the content and had a surprise - check out the introduction to one of the interviews Whoops.mp3 - looks like I'm going to have to record these interviews again - what's odd is that
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Hi, I'd like to follow up on some of the (excellent) feedback on Windows CE tools - if you submitted feedback can you send your feedback on e-mail to mailto:mikehall@microsoft.com Thanks! - Mike
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Scoble recorded a WebCast last week titled "Blogging from the Developer's Perspective" - check it out here - Mike
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Windows CE 5.0 supports two licensing models, Core and Pro, the difference between Core and Pro is defined here - there are a number of components that are in Pro, that includes ActiveSync, Internet Explorer and other components (check the word document
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Hey, I've just finished building a version of CEFileWiz that includes support for mapping shortcuts to files (see image below) - Here's the Beta build of CEFileWiz Notice in the image above that the image file shortcuts are in the \Images folder, the
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So, today I recorded an audio interview with Chris To from the Windows Mobile team (and Anil Dhawan crashed the interview towards the end, so we get to hear Anils words of wisdom as well), we were discussing UI design on Windows Mobile devices, the interview
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It turns out that linking can be extremely useful - James Pratt and I both received an e-mail from Fernando Zandona who's been blogging on Windows Mobile in Portuguese and English - Here's a link to James Blog , and Fernandos Blog . - Mike
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From c|net, Intel and Microsoft back HD DVD - I wonder how this move by Intel to back the HD DVD format will pan out - there are two competing formats, Blu-Ray backed by Sony and others, and HD DVD backed by Toshiba, Intel, and Microsoft. - Mike
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More information from todays Palm Announcement... Interview with Ken Wirt sr. vp, marketing Interview with Marion Fogelberg director of business development Interview with Nancy Gayed product manager, the new Treo Interview with Jenny Schroder product
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Wow, what a complete surprise! <g> - Palm/Verizon/Microsoft today announced the launch of a Windows Mobile 5.0 based Palm device - more information available on the Palm Site - also look out for videos on the Video XML Feed - when I have the fixed
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Friday September 23rd, 11am (approx), it’s time to walk out onto the stage at the 30th Microsoft Company Meeting and show some of the cool/interesting devices shipping on Windows CE, Windows XP Embedded, and Windows Embedded for Point of Service (WEPOS).
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Windows CE 5.0 has been shipping since July of last year, I believe we've made good progress with the tools used to configure, build, and debug Windows CE operating system images since the initial release of Windows CE 2.0 way back in 1998. I'm interested
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Check this out - Palm, Inc., Microsoft Corporation and Verizon Wireless Announce Press Conference for Sept. 26 - want to watch? Here's the teaser video and the Podcast Feed - Mike
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Today we're at the Microsoft Company Meeting 2005, we're also celebrating 30 years of Microsoft (and 20 years of Windows!). What was I doing 30 years ago ? I have some other photo's from the event, more on this later today... - Mike
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Windows CE ships with a few Million lines of Shared Source - I'm interested to know whether you've looked at, modified, or rebuilt any of the source... If so, what are you doing with the Shared Source code ? - Mike
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Check out Jim Wilson's MSDN Column A View of Windows Mobile 5.0 from 10,000 Feet - Jim takes a look at what's new for developers in Windows Mobile 5.0, the tools needed to start developing against the (new) Windows Mobile Emulator and devices. - Mike
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I recorded an interview with John Spaith (a software design engineer in the Windows CE Networking team) some time ago but just didn't get round to posting this. In this interview (300k 90MB WMV) John talks about the Windows CE Web Server - go check it
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This looks intriguing, check out the Business Week article - are we going to be seeing Palm devices running a Windows O/S ? - Mike
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Go check out this cool concept over on the Furrygoat Experience - Steve has a build of Windows CE running from a USB Disk on Key - user settings are persisted between boots, this means you can carry your IE favorites with you on the go... Interesting.
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I caught up with Marcus Perryman at PDC05. Marcus ran a session titled (something like) building a Mobile RSS Reader using Visual Studio 2005 and the .NET Compact Framework 2.0, here's a link to the video (30MB WMV file) interview we recorded, and the
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Dedicated Systems have produced a report (not comissioned by Microsoft) that defines what Real-Time means for embedded systems, and compares three RTOS (Real-Time Operating Systems), this includes VxWorks, Montavista Linux, and Windows CE 5.0 - The following
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If you were one of the lucky PDC attendees to get an I-Mate JasJar I'm curious to know what you're doing with it, and what you think of the device. Options are... Sell it on eBay ! Use this as my primary phone/pda device Use the Visual Studio 2005 PDC
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Interesting news from alllinuxdevices.com "The Embedded Linux Consortium (ELC) filed dissolution papers with the state of California yesterday, ending a five year run promoting embedded Linux and developing standards for it. The ELC's primary piece of
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Marcus Perryman is delivering a session covering building a Windows Mobile RSS reader using Windows Mobile 5.0, Visual Studio 2005, and C# - You can get the slides and sample code from Marcus's blog and look out for the interview with Marcus being posted
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I blogged about the PDC I-Mate JasJar offer from behind the keynote stage, apparently several thousand people left the keynote room and ordered their devices, within 30 minutes all devices were gone - this reminds me of the 1996 PDC when the first Casio
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Hey, if you're at the PDC then you need to check out the event special offer - the I-Mate JasJar also known as the HTC Universal on sale (limited number of devices) for $149.00 ! - head over to the Big Room to get more information. - Mike
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Check this out, images snapped at PDC 2005 - a sneak preview of the new Windows Boot UI and Booted O/S UI Pretty cool, eh? - Mike
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Looks like Dr Neil was interviewed by Scoble, check out the video here - Remember Dr Neil from TechEd ? - Mike
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Anil Dhawan has been busy building a Windows CE 5.0 based media device, and an application running on his Windows Mobile 5.0 mobile device to control the media device - check out the video on MSDN Channel 9 here and of course go over to Anils Blog to
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James Pratt is running a panel discussion at PDC05 discussing the future of Mobile Device hardware - James is looking for your questions over on his blog - This raises an interesting question, what is the future you would like to see? - Full windows running
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I've been working on an application using an architecture that has database/storage at the back end, business logic in the middle, and user interface at the front end - today I ran the entire application for the first time, and it crashed! - Is this what
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I've been having some problems with my ISP, so I've moved to a new provider, I'm in the process of moving utilities, podcast XML file and other bits over to the new site - Someone was having trouble getting the latest drop of DUAScriptGen, the latest
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Check out the BillG interview over on MSDN Channel 9 - I thought this was pretty interesting! - Mike
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MikeCal has posted a series of articles over on the Windows Mobile team blog that cover Persistent Storage on Windows Mobile devices - Persistent storage has been around for a while on Smartphone devices, it's only with Windows Mobile 5.0 (based on Windows
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From OS News - Windows Mobile 5 sports many new features and enhancements making it a very worthwhile upgrade. Perhaps the most important feature that everyone will love is persistent memory. Your data won't be lost if the battery runs completely dry;
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Mike Calligaro has posted an explanation of how color is supported on Windows Mobile devices, make for a pretty interesting read. - Mike
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From WindowsforDevices.com - A recent posting on the Windows XP Embedded Team blog addresses the question of how to determine what dependencies Windows XP Embedded components have on one another. While it is fairly easy to determine what components a
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Apple today announced the Motorola ROKR which combines a phone and media player in one device - sound cool ? - sound innovative ? I wonder if anyone noticed that Windows Mobile devices already have this capability, and have had for quite some time - check
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Why would anyone want to build a device that uses an “Embedded” operating system? – after all, MS-DOS and various versions of Windows have been ‘embedded’ into devices for several years now – Windows XP Professional SP2 ships with just about everything
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Hey, So, I’m looking to add shortcut support into CEFileWiz, this would mean that you could add one or more files which, by default live in the \Windows folder, CEFileWiz would generate a shortcut for the files and map to the appropriate folder within
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What is Hopper, and why should you be reading Steven Hendersons blog about Hopper ? - if you have no clue what the answer to this question is then perhaps you should be reading the blog! - here's the link . I've taken a whizz through the blog this morning,
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Tomorrow (Tuesday for me) I’m going to be recording a Podcast Interview with Dan Javnoson (Windows CE Product Manager), and John Doyle (Windows XP Embedded Product Manager) – Let me know if you have any questions ! – Mike
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Anil Dhawan dropped by my office yesterday to collect some hardware, we started chatting about a demo Anil is working on for the PDC, the discussion was interesting enough that it would have been rude not to have recorded the conversation. This was totally
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Yesterday I met with John Eldridge, an Architect in the Windows CE operating system group to discuss Windows CE and Real-Time, here's a link to the discussion (mp3 16MB), and the Podcast XML feed will be updated shortly. - Mike
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A couple of days ago I asked how much you knew about Windows CE Networking - I don't know about you, but there are some areas that I know *something* about, and other areas that I know absolutely nothing about - it turns out that Don Gambrell is now talking
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