Windows Embedded Blog
A look at Embedded and other Cool Stuff.
MEDC 2007: Behind the scenes of the keynote.
This is a pretty interesting look behind the scenes of the MEDC 2007 keynote, we get to see behind...
Author: mikehall Date: 05/02/2007
MEDC 2007: Interview with Derek Snyder, keynote rehearsals.
Derek provides a walk through of his keynote demos, and we get cut off by the event producers to...
Author: mikehall Date: 05/02/2007
MEDC 2007: Interview with Jon Rauschenberger (CTO Clarity Consulting)
During the MEDC keynote we had three Embedded specific demos, the first was around Robotics and CE...
Author: mikehall Date: 05/02/2007
MEDC 2007: Behind the Scenes (Part 2)
Take a look at more of the exhibit hall on setup day and hear from some of the exhibitors at MEDC...
Author: mikehall Date: 05/02/2007
MEDC 2007: Why I came to MEDC 2007 (video).
The MEDC Podcast team are out talking to attendees, speakers (and quite frankly anyone else they can...
Author: mikehall Date: 05/02/2007
MEDC 2007: Navigate with Signpost (cool Windows Mobile application).
The Windows Mobile team and Daniel Wagner have come up with an interesting application which can be...
Author: mikehall Date: 05/02/2007
MEDC 2007: Keeping track of speaker scores.
Last year at MEDC we had a Plasma screen in the speaker lounge which showed the top speaker scores...
Author: mikehall Date: 05/02/2007
MEDC 2007: Interview with Robbie Bach
The MEDC 2007 Video Podcast continues - check out the interview with Robbie Bach the evening before...
Author: mikehall Date: 05/01/2007
Hotels and hot water ?
Why is it that you turn on a hot water tap in your hotel room and you get instant hot water, but at...
Author: mikehall Date: 05/01/2007
MEDC 2007 Podcast!
The MEDC Podcast team is at it again... We have a video podcast feed up and running on YouTube...
Author: mikehall Date: 05/01/2007
MEDC Day before Pre-Conference Tutorials (and Keynote Rehearsals)
The Pelican case with my keynote hardware finally arrived (not on the same flight as me though) -...
Author: mikehall Date: 04/29/2007
What's needed to run Microsoft Robotics Studio code on CE 6.0?
Since we're running the ever popular MEDC Sumo Robotics competition this year on CE 6.0 based...
Author: mikehall Date: 04/29/2007
And so it begins...
It's Sunday morning, April 29th and I'm heading for Las Vegas for MEDC 2007 - the journey hasn't...
Author: mikehall Date: 04/29/2007
MEDC Keynote Demo: Recording at Studios.
MEDC 2007 kicks off in Las Vegas this coming week with the keynote on Tuesday morning at 8:30am - we...
Author: mikehall Date: 04/28/2007
MEDC 2007 - How not to present...
Some of the content owners for MEDC 2007 have put together a short video showing some of the ways...
Author: mikehall Date: 04/24/2007
MEDC 2007 Keynote Rehearsals
MEDC 2007 is just over a week away (it really doesn't seem like a year ago that we were getting...
Author: mikehall Date: 04/20/2007
MEDC 2007: Sumo Competition Update.
Wanted to give you an update on the Sumo Competition at MEDC 2007 - The hardware 'porting lab' will...
Author: mikehall Date: 04/20/2007
Fabien kicks off a Windows Mobile developer blog.
Fabien Decret is a developer working at ADENEO in France, Fabien spends his time writing .NET...
Author: mikehall Date: 04/20/2007
MEDC 2007 Las Vegas: Sumo Robotics Competition - What you need to know...
This years MEDC Sumo Robotics competition is going to be based around Microsoft Robotics Studio 1.5...
Author: mikehall Date: 04/19/2007
.NET Micro Framework book is done...
Go check out the .NET Micro Framework blog - it looks like Rob Miles and Donald Thompson have...
Author: mikehall Date: 04/19/2007
WEPOS 1.1 update Released
If you are building Point of Service applications (self-service check out terminals, airport...
Author: mikehall Date: 04/19/2007
MEDC is just like managed development.
MEDC is an event, right ? And the MSDN C# Documentation clearly states that Delegates are the basis...
Author: mikehall Date: 04/14/2007
.NET Compact Framework 2.0 SP2 for Platform Builder (4.2, 5.0, 6.0)
The .NET Compact Framework 2.0 SP2 has been released for mobile devices as a download on MSDN - The...
Author: mikehall Date: 04/14/2007
Wind River: Is the Embedded industry dead ?
Doug Gaff, a developer working over at Wind River has written a blog post asking whether the...
Author: mikehall Date: 04/13/2007
MEDC 2007: Are you working on a Sumo Robot solution ?
Hey, just want to get a feel for how many people might be taking part in the Sumo Robotics...
Author: mikehall Date: 04/12/2007
The Most Revolutionary Microsoft Technology You’ve Never Heard Of
Take a look at this blog post from Marc Jacobs - what do you think, do you agree ? - Mike
Author: mikehall Date: 04/12/2007
Imagine Cup: CE 6.0 Live Chats.
If you are taking part in the Imagine Cup Embedded Competition then you are probably coding away...
Author: mikehall Date: 04/11/2007
It's coming, are you ready ?
More information here - https://www.medc2007.com and Information on Robotics Studio and The Sumo...
Author: mikehall Date: 04/11/2007
Getting started with the Freescale i.MXS .NET Micro Framework board.
Alden Linn from the .NET Micro Framework team has a great blog post that shows how to get started...
Author: mikehall Date: 04/09/2007
Microsoft Robotics Studio 1.5 Sumo Simulator.
If you are heading to MEDC 2007 in Las Vegas and are wanting to take part in this years Sumo...
Author: mikehall Date: 04/09/2007
Robotics Studio: Important information on Sumo Package
I've just installed Microsoft Robotics Studio 1.5 CTP and the Sumo Robotics Simulator Package - the...
Author: mikehall Date: 04/09/2007
CE 6.0 - Sending an SMS Message.
CE 6.0 introduced a number of new and interesting technologies, this includes the Vista Network...
Author: mikehall Date: 04/08/2007
Robotics Studio 1.5 CTP - MEDC Sumo Robotics Competition Simulator.
MEDC 2007 Las Vegas is getting close, just a few short weeks away! - one of the highlights of the...
Author: mikehall Date: 04/06/2007
MEDC 2007 Las Vegas: Blogger Discount.
Hey, if you are interested in attending MEDC 2007 in Las Vegas and want to get a super secret...
Author: mikehall Date: 04/05/2007
ESC West: The OCC/Intel Chopper.
So, here it is, the Intel/OCC Chopper - looks great from the side, looks really ugly from the front!...
Author: mikehall Date: 04/04/2007
Crackdown - Build a Tank...
ok, this is completely off topic, if you've been playing Crackdown on the XBOX 360 then you might...
Author: mikehall Date: 04/04/2007
Embedded Systems West - Global Warming and Motorcycles.
This week I'm at ESC West in Sunny San Jose, California, manning the Microsoft booth, talking to...
Author: mikehall Date: 04/04/2007
Supported BSPs for CE 6.0.
Are you looking for a reference design for a project that uses CE 6.0 ? - You may be interested in...
Author: mikehall Date: 04/01/2007
Take a look at the Windows Mobile "DeepFish" Browser.
Mobile devices have screens that are typically smaller and running at a lower resolution that your...
Author: mikehall Date: 03/29/2007
MEDC 2007: Windows Mobile Demo (Server Rack needed).
Rob Tiffany from the Windows Mobile team is planning a demo to show at MEDC 2007, the hardware for...
Author: mikehall Date: 03/29/2007
Halo 3 T-Shirt - I bet you want one...
Here's John Coyne, a Systems Engineer in the OEM Embedded group here at Microsoft. John appears to...
Author: mikehall Date: 03/27/2007
MEDC 2007 - CE 6.0 Session Reviews - Week 1.
We have MEDC content reviews running for two straight weeks (or at least those of us that more than...
Author: mikehall Date: 03/24/2007
Microsoft Robotics Studio Video Tutorials and Newsgroups.
Robots are cool and interesting, whether it's the cute Sony Aibo, educational robots based on Lego...
Author: mikehall Date: 03/24/2007
WiMo busted in Phoenix!
Here's Brian Cross, developer in the Windows Mobile team and creator of the Windows Mobile Robot...
Author: mikehall Date: 03/17/2007
Arrived in Dallas...
First leg of the trip to Phoenix is complete - it's 5:34am in Dallas (3:34am Redmond/Phoenix) - next...
Author: mikehall Date: 03/15/2007
Planes, Police, and Automobiles.
I'm presenting at Arizona State University at 8:30am on Thursday morning, or at least that was the...
Author: mikehall Date: 03/15/2007
Presenting at the MVP Global Summit 2007
Today was the start of the MVP Global Summit being held at the Washington State Convention Center in...
Author: mikehall Date: 03/14/2007
Windows Mobile DST Patch.
If you are running a Windows Mobile device and find that the clock didn't change on Sunday (the US...
Author: mikehall Date: 03/13/2007
NxtGenUG Video Podcast with Derek Snyder (or was it...?)
Dave and Rich from the NxtGenUG tried to capture an interview with Derek Snyder from the Windows...
Author: mikehall Date: 03/13/2007
MEDC 2007: Video, into the lab...
At MEDC this year we will be running close to 80 hands on labs - each of the labs will be hosted in...
Author: mikehall Date: 03/12/2007