Olivier's Blog
A Blog about Interoperability in the Microsoft world
Windows Embedded Standard 7 CTP available on Connect
The CTP of Windows Embedded Standard 7 is now available on Connect. We are coming closer to release!...
Author: Olivier Bloch Date: 02/15/2010
Techdays France Day
TechDays France day 1 is over. This event is huge!! Microsoft France offers this unique developers...
Author: Olivier Bloch Date: 02/08/2010
Who said mathematics presentations were boring?
Do you know Charles Fleischer? No, really? He is the voice of Roger Rabbit! Check out this great...
Author: Olivier Bloch Date: 01/18/2010
Round 1 of EmbeddedSPARK ended last week
Round 1 of the embeddedSPARK competition ended last week and the 75 contestants moving to Round 2...
Author: Olivier Bloch Date: 01/16/2010
Retail experience: devices everywhere
From kiosks to point-of-sale or digital signage, embedded devices surround you when you are...
Author: Olivier Bloch Date: 01/16/2010
In-car technology of the future… not so far away from now!
A lot of in-car technologies have been demonstrated at CES this year. In a very near future you will...
Author: Olivier Bloch Date: 01/15/2010
Toshiba JournE
Nice MID running Windows Embedded CE:the Toshiba JournE. This emerging category is...
Author: Olivier Bloch Date: 01/14/2010
Platform Builder build process and antivirus systems…
Arghhhh, I just spent 2 hours on trying to figure out why I had my sysgen process would fail really...
Author: Olivier Bloch Date: 01/13/2010
Beckhoff to integrate their Industrial Automation tools in VS 2010
Beckhoff is a well know player of the Industrial Automation industry. They have been providing...
Author: Olivier Bloch Date: 01/13/2010
Windows Embedded contest at TechDays France
« I see Windows Everywhere » … the first dedicated French student and hobbyist contest on...
Author: Olivier Bloch Date: 01/13/2010
Silverlight for Windows Embedded demo
Windows Embedded CE 6.0 R3 provides support for Silverlight for Windows Embedded. This means you can...
Author: Olivier Bloch Date: 01/13/2010
NTFS on Windows Embedded CE?
Are you interested in having NTFS support in Windows Embedded CE? As you might now there has been no...
Author: Olivier Bloch Date: 01/13/2010
Intel & Windows Embedded digital signage POC video
In my last post I talked a little about a nice POC built by Intel and running Windows Embedded. Here...
Author: Olivier Bloch Date: 01/13/2010
Digital Signage
What about having digital signage to be more interactive, intuitive, adapted to the one who is...
Author: Olivier Bloch Date: 01/12/2010
Windows Embedded Standard: past present and future
Here is a great Channel 9 video: a bunch of Windows Embedded Standard developers are...
Author: Olivier Bloch Date: 11/23/2009
Windows Embedded Standard 2011 CTP2 available on Connect
The CTP2 of Windows Embedded Standard 2011, the Windows 7 based componentized embedded OS is...
Author: Olivier Bloch Date: 11/23/2009
embeddedSpark 2010 challenge
You are an embedded developer or just an technology geek who wants to try and build something with...
Author: Olivier Bloch Date: 11/19/2009
XAML2CPP, the missing tool for Silverlight for Windows Embedded developers
We have been rolling out a new version of Windows Embedded CE 6 recently, called R3. one of the...
Author: Olivier Bloch Date: 11/17/2009
Going to PDC 2009?
Are you going to PDC 2009? Then you should not miss this session:...
Author: Olivier Bloch Date: 11/03/2009
Want to see interesting demos AND get a free board at TechEd EMEA?
Are you coming to TechEd EMEA? If not then maybe you might consider registering now: not only...
Author: Olivier Bloch Date: 10/27/2009
TechEd EMEA 2009 in Berlin
We are now a few weeks from TechEd EMEA that will take place in Berlin during the week of November...
Author: Olivier Bloch Date: 10/15/2009
The Visual Studio Documentary
Wow. I just watched these 2 videos retracing the history of Visual Studio. This is not just a...
Author: Olivier Bloch Date: 10/14/2009
Windows Embedded Webinars
There have been several releases in the last month within Windows Embedded. Windows Embedded CE 6.0...
Author: Olivier Bloch Date: 10/12/2009
I am OOF on paternity leave!
Don’t worry if my blog is not too busy in the coming couple of weeks as I am OOF on paternity leave...
Author: Olivier Bloch Date: 10/05/2009
Windows Embedded CE 6.0 R3 release
A new release of Windows Embedded CE 6.0 R3 has been announced yesterday at ESC Boston during Kevin...
Author: Olivier Bloch Date: 09/23/2009
Webinar: Windows Embedded: The platform for Connected, Efficient Industrial Devices
Here is a great Webinar you don’t want to miss, especially if you are in the Industrial Automation...
Author: Olivier Bloch Date: 09/03/2009
IE 8 and Silverlight 3.0 are now available for POSReady 2009
Supplement letters to allow Internet Explorer 8 and Silverlight 3.0 for Windows Embedded POSReady...
Author: Olivier Bloch Date: 09/02/2009
Windows Embedded Standard 2011 CTP available on connect!
Here it comes, the CTP for the future version of Windows Embedded Standard (previously known as...
Author: Olivier Bloch Date: 09/01/2009
Imagine Cup one month later
One month after Imagine Cup I am still in an “Imagine Cup mood” and I wanted to write an article...
Author: Olivier Bloch Date: 09/01/2009
Office 2010: The movie
This is not related to Windows Embedded at all, but this still is a great video! check it out.
Author: Olivier Bloch Date: 08/26/2009
Did you check out the new Windows Embedded MSDN dev center?
Finding resources on MSDN has always been a problem. Lots of very interesting content is sitting...
Author: Olivier Bloch Date: 08/20/2009
MSDN Embedded subscription
There is a new MSDN subscription that could interest you. It is called MSDN Embedded. In this...
Author: Olivier Bloch Date: 08/20/2009
Cool Coke dispenser running Windows Embedded CE
Check out his post from John’s Blog and this video! I want one like this in my office!
Author: Olivier Bloch Date: 08/18/2009
Windows Embedded CE 6 virtual labs
If you want to get started and play with Windows Embedded CE 6 tools, you can do this online here....
Author: Olivier Bloch Date: 08/18/2009
Windows Embedded Standard 2009 developer resource kit
It is a set of documents that will make it easier for you to develop Windows Embedded Standard...
Author: Olivier Bloch Date: 08/09/2009
Minimum requirements for a Windows Embedded CE BSP
This is the title of an excellent white paper Kurt just published. This whitepaper describes the...
Author: Olivier Bloch Date: 07/26/2009
Latest Windows Embedded case studies
Regularly our team works with partners to publish case studies related to Windows Embedded devices....
Author: Olivier Bloch Date: 07/14/2009
Imagine Cup 2009: Day 5
I am back from Imagine Cup and still have lots to tell you about this great competition. To start...
Author: Olivier Bloch Date: 07/13/2009
Imagine Cup 2009: Day 4
In this extra special edition of Imagine Cup Today, we share the students' cultural day and...
Author: Olivier Bloch Date: 07/07/2009
Imagine Cup 2009: Day 3
Yesterday was the day that the Windows Embedded competition reached boiling point. The final 6 face...
Author: Olivier Bloch Date: 07/06/2009
Windows Embedded @ Imagine Cup 2009 – Game On
Yesterday everything started to get serious: the 20 embedded invitational finalists were whittled...
Author: Olivier Bloch Date: 07/05/2009
Imagine Cup 2009 Cairo: meet Lindsay from our video crew
Working with Microsoft folks seems exhausting... Do I need to comment :-)
Author: Olivier Bloch Date: 07/04/2009
Windows Embedded @ Imagine Cup - Day one video
We have a video crew here with us in Cairo. With them we'll be tracking the highs and lows of all...
Author: Olivier Bloch Date: 07/04/2009
I was not the only one to wear it.
So if you are reading Mike Hall's blog you might have seen this picture of me wearing that nice pink...
Author: Olivier Bloch Date: 07/03/2009
Running Windows Embedded Standard on Hyper-V
So here is something interesting I have been doing and that I wanted to share. I am working on some...
Author: Olivier Bloch Date: 06/24/2009
CE 6 tools on 64-bits machine
You should check this blog post Mike has been writing about running Windows Embedded CE 6.0 tools on...
Author: Olivier Bloch Date: 06/22/2009