February 2007 - Posts
A new article has just been published to the MSDN library - this is Windows Embedded CE 6.0 Advanced Memory Management written by Doug Boling . - Mike
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Check out the new and exciting MSN Mobile Beta on your Windows Mobile phone: http://beta.mobile.msn.com Some cool things you can view are: • Mail • MNSBC News • Entertainment • Local • Search • Weather • Money • Sports Go check it out... - Mike
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Today Jeff Albertson and I hosted a Webinar with CMP on the topic of " Building Consumer Electronics Devices using Windows Embedded " - the webinar will be posted on the CMP site. There were a number of questions asked that we didn't have time to answer
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I was recently presenting at TechDays in Paris (France, not Texas), Benjamin Gauthey was also presenting at the event and wanted to capture a quick interview about some of the .NET Micro Framework work that Olivier Bloch and I were working on - unfortunately
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One of the guys that used to work in the Windows CE development team in Redmond (oh, it's started snowing again in Redmond!) now works at the European Microsoft Innovation Center (EMIC) in Aachen (Germany) - Matt is working on some Mobility projects and
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The dates for the MEDC International events have been locked - here's the list of locations and dates. Las Vegas - May 1-3 (April 30th for Pre-Conference tutorials) India - May 10-12 Australia - May 16 Taiwan - May 29 Korea - May 30 Japan - June 6 Singapore
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Check out this MSN Direct/.NET Micro Framework video... - Mike
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Wechsler Consulting are offering a one day .NET Micro Framework Starter Workshop - the one day course appears to be packed with everything you need to get started building .NET Micro Framework solutions. Here's the agenda for the workshop. .NET Micro
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Just wanted to give you a "Heads Up" that support for XPe SP1 ends in April (more information on the Windows XP Embedded Blog). - Mike
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Today Derek and I sit down and slot all of the MEDC 2007 sessions into the session/room grid - There's 140 sessions (not counting labs) that cover application development, business, IT Pro, CE, XPE, Micro Framework, WEPOS, Windows Mobile etc... Turns
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Windows Vista ships with a set of new and interesting technologies, this includes .NET Framework 3.0 (including WPF and WCF support!), Internet Explorer 7, Windows Media Player 11, and user mode driver framework. The Windows XP Embedded team have just
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If you were at Embedded World 2007 in Nuremberg/Germany you probably met with Ilya, the director of marketing for the Windows Embedded products - I wanted to interview Ilya to find out more about his background and thoughts on the Embedded market. I had
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I managed to get the content owners for MEDC 2005, 2006, and 2007 in a room - for some reason they all appear to be somewhat distracted. - Mike
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Crackdown for XBOX 360 is available from this morning! - The Microsoft Company Store opened at 9am with a reasonable line of people outside waiting to get their copies of Crackdown - the XBOX Live Marketplace Crackdown demo is pretty good, at least good
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One of my colleagues showed me MSN Radio this afternoon - it's pretty cool, you enter an artist or song name and it builds a custom play list - you can vote on which music you like and which music you don't like and the play list will be customized to
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Derek Snyder (all up content owner for MEDC 2007) dropped by my office this afternoon for a chat about MEDC 2007 - Since we're talking about MEDC 2007 we recorded the conversation and here's the result. Check out the Windows Mobile "Pirate" vest. There's
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Forget the bluetooth headset, why carry two devices that both need to be charged, perhaps the PhoneBoy from Stilic-Force is what you need. - Mike
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Derek Snyder and Loke Uei have been running around Microsoft Campus with a video camera to see how well prepared speakers are for their session at MEDC 2007 - check out the video on Lokes Blog . - Mike
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POS for .NET V1.11 is Microsoft’s implementation of the industry’s Unified Point of Service (UPOS) version 1.11 standards, for the .NET platform. UPOS is the standards body that specifies the behavior of retail peripherals. So what’s new and exciting
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According to the 2003 Embedded Market Forecasters report, nearly a third of final designs fail to meet at least 50% of pre-design expectations . Discover how Windows Embedded can help you balance more complex applications and shorter product development
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Derek Snyder has been interviewed by On10.net - in this video Derek describes some of the cool new features that are shipping in Windows Mobile 6. - Mike
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U.S. daylight saving time zones change in 2007. However, these changes do not occur on the correct day on Microsoft Windows CE 5.0-based devices. Windows CE 5.0 changes the time on the first or last Sunday of the month. Windows CE 5.0 does not change
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At Embedded World in Nuremberg/Germany the .NET Micro Framework team released the .NET Micro Framework 2.0 SDK (link to download) - This is a plug-in to Visual Studio 2005 that allows you to quickly and easily develop solutions based on the .NET Micro
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Here are some links to Windows Mobile 6 videos that show (in some detail) the new features - note that the new features are being shown from an end user/business perspective, not from the developers perspective. CrunchGear (long, long video) youTube -
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I had an e-mail asking why someone would move from their existing 100kb operating system to Windows CE when the CE 6.0 kernel alone builds at about 300kb and the CE 6.0 image that meets the needs of the customer is about 1MB in size. In many cases size
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Finally arrived in Nuremberg after the flight from Paris was delayed due to problems with the aircraft. Tomorrow (Monday) is setup day at the conference center, most of the rest of the team are arriving tomorrow. I really like Nuremberg with it's mix
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There are two ways to find out what's new in Windows Mobile 6. 1. Go to Jason Langridge's blog and read his blog post on "Windows Mobile 6 - What's new and What's cool?" 2. Listen/watch a webcast from Chris Hill (Group Product Manager) on Tuesday 13th
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Got Vista ? - looking for a cool Sidebar gadget that gives you a countdown to MEDC 2007 ? - then look no further! download the MEDC 2007 countdown sidebar gadget here - the gadget is the work of Derek Snyder , so don't forget to rate the gadget 'appropriately'
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It looks like Windows Mobile 6 has been announced (link to Engadget) - and Loke has some information on his blog about what's new for developers More information to be available next week. - Mike
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I decided to take a walk around Paris today, it would have been easy to take the Metro, but nowhere near as interesting as walking above ground watching the locals going about their business. My first stop was the Louvre - an amazing place, I could have
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I managed to get some time with Olivier Bloch , Embedded DPE for Microsoft France - we've been presenting embedded sessions at Microsoft Tech Days covering .NET Micro Framework, CE 6.0, XP Embedded, WEPOS and Robotics Studio. Take a look at the following
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I've been working on some demos with Olivier Bloch (Embedded DPE guy in Microsoft France) that combine a number of different technologies, one of the demos uses a .NET Micro Framework Freescale board (which has an integrated color LCD screen, D-Pad buttons,
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If you've been using Windows Mobile devices for a while you are probably used to Active Sync, the utility that's used to sync content from your desktop PC to your mobile device - if you have installed Vista or have just got a new PC running Vista then
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The first day of Tech Days France/Paris is now over, this is a huge event with close to 12,000 attendees registered for a FREE multi-day technical event covering a whole range of Microsoft products and technologies, ranging from .NET Microframework, Visual
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It's two hours before my monster embedded session at Tech Days "innovez avec les technologies embarquées Microsoft" (Embedded Innovation at Microsoft, or something like that) - this session is part of the "Innovation" track at Tech Days. The session is
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Continuing the series of What's the difference (CE 6.0 and Windows Mobile) - I got some questions from the blog comment form about the difference between CE 6.0 and the .NET MicroFramework . Let's start with a quick recap of the CE 6.0 features and then
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Amazon have a book listed called Professional Robotics Studio written by Martin Calsyn who was the Architect for Robotics Studio and now works for Coroware based in Barcelona, Spain. Book topics include: Common Concurrency Runtime Sending and Receiving
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I've arrived in Paris/France last night (not Paris/Texas ) I have rehearsals for Tech Days today, Sunday, my Embedded demo-palooza session is tomorrow just after lunch - this session is not going to a typical death-by-powerpoint session that sends the
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Friday Feb 2nd I'm heading for Paris/France for TechDays - We have a number of embedded sessions at the event being presented by Olivier Bloch , Dave Baker and I. Subjects include Windows Embedded CE 6.0, Windows XP Embedded, Windows Embedded for Point
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I'm presenting a session at Embedded world 2007 - the title of my session is "Embedded Development: Forget the O/S" - this would appear to be a strange comment coming from an operating systems company. My presentation starts by examining the shopping
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