Surfs Up at www.windowsembedded.com , 10:00am PT today! At 10:00am Pacific Time today, a new www.windowsembedded.com website will launch.  The main goal of this overhaul is to make content more discoverable for all Windows Embedded audiences. Some...

Windows Embedded Standard   allows for very fast embedded OS design and deployment. The list of Out Of The Box drivers is impressive, but in the Embedded space, you are never really “standard” and you will need to get your hands on some specific...

If you are interested in smart energy metering and home energy gateways, I recommend you check out this demo of a reference platform Freescale has put together and that is powered by Windows Embedded Compact 7   . You will notice the nice Silverlight...

The Windows Embedded group is running a series of Hands-on sessions across the US next week. If you want to get your hands on and discover what the platform has to offer you, go register for one of the sessions next to you. Here is the invitation blurb...

The first round of the embeddedSPARK competition is finished and the winners have been announced. Go check out the projects that made it to next round: http://www.embeddedspark.com/forum.aspx?g=posts&t=419 I look forward to see what the competitors...

When developing an application for Windows Embedded CE 6.0 or Windows Embedded Compact 7 , you need to establish a connection between your target and your development environment (Visual Studio). To establish the connection and exchange information with...

Here is another great power toy that has just been released by the embedded101 folks. When developing a device running Windows Embedded CE or Windows Embedded Compact, you often need to set things up for some application to launch automatically at start...

A new drop has just been published on the Connect portal for you to get a sneak peek at the upcoming Windows Embedded Compact 7 toolkit. Go give it a try, you just need to register on Connect and select the Windows Embedded Compact  project in the...

Wow, David Jones is definitively active! Here is a new Release Candidate version of a great tool that help Windows Embedded CE 6.0 and Windows Embedded Compact 7 developers. It consist in generating a component for the Platform Builder catalog. Extremely...

If you are a Windows Embedded CE developer, you might be familiar with powertoys such as CEFilewiz and CEDriverwiz that are available on Codeplex. David Jones has created an enhnaced version of the CEFilewiz with some interesting added features, like...

Windows Embedded intends to provide 2 types of solutions. one is platforms (box of Legos that allow OEMs to build whatever they want), and vertical solutions addressing specific needs of a particular market. For the Point Of Service market, Microsoft...

If you are a Windows Media Center user, you might have felt many times that it would be awesome to have a device that would boot into the Media Center experience and that would not have any type of Windows Desktop or control panel in the way (not trivial...

While we are working on creating an advanced modular training for Windows Embedded Compact 7, Adeneo Embedded just announced the first series of deep dive trainings that will leverage this official curriculum in Feb, March and April 2011. You can check...

As you know Windows Embedded Standard 7 is a componentized version of Windows 7. it comes with tools enabling OEMs to generate their own optimized Windows 7 based OS for devices. Being based on Windows 7 allows for leveraging all the goodness of Windows...

Sean Liming , notorious Embedded MVP has just published a new book: “Professionals’ guide to Windows Embedded Standard 7”. You can find it here . Check out John ’s blog post to learn more about its content (I didn’t get my copy of the book yet ).

Windows for Devices just published an interesting article about a research from VDC on the embedded market trends. COMs gain traction as time-to-market accelerators for OEMs PC/104 module family under pressure Asia continues to rise in the development...

Silverlight is a very powerful Web technology that is evolving in different directions: out of the Browser (e.g. Silverlight 4) and also out of the PC (e.g. Windows Phone 7 app platform). Lots of noise happened lately around Silverlight and its future...

Windows Embedded products benefit from a long lifecycle. I covered this very topic in a previous post here . You can find detailed information on when a specific Microsoft product (including Windows Embedded) will reach the end of its mainstream support...

Then you definitively want to read this article from Nicolas’ blog. Nicolas describes all the steps to create a wrapper for stream drivers on Windows Embedded CE using .Net Compact Framework. To learn more about Windows Embedded CE driver model, check...

Mike Hall , Principal Software Architect for Windows Embedded is writing a series of articles about trends in emerging technology affecting embedded devices developers. The last in date is about Device User Experience while the previous articles covered...

For those not up to date on Imagine Cup , this is a World Wide Student competition organized by Microsoft yearly. The theme of the competition is around using technology to help solving the toughest problems as defined by the United Nations in its Millennium...

Ever thought about joining the Windows Embedded Product group at Microsoft? You have Technical Product Management skills? Want to be part of a very fast growing and moving group at Microsoft? Well, there is an opened position for you here then . Check...

The HRC-3100 and HRC-4200 can connect to a cloud platform create by Isidorey over a SSL or non-SSL connection. These devices powered by Windows Embedded CE leverage the native connectivity capabilities of the embedded OS. Eurotech says the Device Cloud...

People are often surprise when they discover some medical devices run Microsoft embedded Operating systems. As a matter of fact Windows Embedded offers a series of very reliable Operating Systems for specialized devices. If you are curious to learn about...