Windows Embedded Blog
A look at Embedded and other Cool Stuff.
Going to ESC West ? - Got questions ?
If you are planning on going to ESC West (April 1-5, San Jose, CA) there are a number of...
Author: mikehall Date: 03/12/2007
MEDC 2007: Speaker Shirt Revealed!
Derek Snyder (content owner for MEDC 2007) dropped by my office to show off the design for this...
Author: mikehall Date: 03/12/2007
MEDC 2007 Session Schedule
Derek Snyder and others from the MEDC 2007 track/content owners have been working hard on putting...
Author: mikehall Date: 03/12/2007
MEDC 2007: Track owners Meeting.
There is a TON of work that goes into putting on an event like MEDC 2007 - The planning for the next...
Author: mikehall Date: 03/10/2007
DevX: From pig slicers to sewing machines - all about Embedded.
<snip>Confused about Embedded? You're not alone. Even mobile developers don't always get...
Author: mikehall Date: 03/08/2007
MVP summit next week - Plotting a rum do...
Those chaps, Dave and Rich, from the NxtGenUG are coming to the MVP Summit in Sunny old Redmond next...
Author: mikehall Date: 03/07/2007
Download: VS 2005 SP1 Update for Windows Vista
The Visual Studio 2005 SP1 update for Windows Vista is now available - more information, and the...
Author: mikehall Date: 03/07/2007
A peek at some Windows Mobile 6 devices
Today, Derek Snyder dropped in on Raleigh Paenitz, the Windows Mobile "Lab Guy" - Raleigh has just...
Author: mikehall Date: 03/06/2007
Webcast: Rapidly Building Consumer Devices on Windows Embedded CE.
The recent Webcast which discussed Rapidly Building Consumer Devices on Windows Embedded CE (which...
Author: mikehall Date: 03/05/2007
MEDC 2007: Meet Christine Tang - MEDC business owner
Earlier this week Derek Snyder and I met up with Christine Tang the business owner for MEDC 2007 -...
Author: mikehall Date: 03/02/2007
Loke has been at Microsoft for five years - bring out the candy.
Loke Uei Tan has been at Microsoft for five years! - That means that Loke needs to bring one pound...
Author: mikehall Date: 03/02/2007
Windows Mobile 6 SDK now available.
just been reading Derek Snyder's blog - looks like the Windows Mobile 6 SDKs are available to...
Author: mikehall Date: 03/02/2007
Send IM, send hope.
The Windows Live Messenger team are running the initiative - Not everyone has the financial ability...
Author: mikehall Date: 03/01/2007
MSDN Article: Windows Embedded CE 6.0 Advanced Memory Management.
A new article has just been published to the MSDN library - this is Windows Embedded CE 6.0 Advanced...
Author: mikehall Date: 03/01/2007
MSN Mobile Beta now available.
Check out the new and exciting MSN Mobile Beta on your Windows Mobile phone:...
Author: mikehall Date: 03/01/2007
Webinar Q&A: Building Consumer Electronics Devices using Windows Embedded.
Today Jeff Albertson and I hosted a Webinar with CMP on the topic of "Building Consumer Electronics...
Author: mikehall Date: 02/28/2007
On10: .NET Micro Framework.
I was recently presenting at TechDays in Paris (France, not Texas), Benjamin Gauthey was also...
Author: mikehall Date: 02/28/2007
EMIC Aachen: eBox Rack.
One of the guys that used to work in the Windows CE development team in Redmond (oh, it's started...
Author: mikehall Date: 02/28/2007
MEDC International Dates.
The dates for the MEDC International events have been locked - here's the list of locations and...
Author: mikehall Date: 02/26/2007
MSN Direct/.NET Micro Framework Video.
Check out this MSN Direct/.NET Micro Framework video... - Mike
Author: mikehall Date: 02/22/2007
.NET Micro Framework Starter Workshop.
Wechsler Consulting are offering a one day .NET Micro Framework Starter Workshop - the one day...
Author: mikehall Date: 02/22/2007
Support for XPe SP1 ends in April
Just wanted to give you a "Heads Up" that support for XPe SP1 ends in April (more information on the...
Author: mikehall Date: 02/21/2007
Scheduling MEDC 2007.
Today Derek and I sit down and slot all of the MEDC 2007 sessions into the session/room grid -...
Author: mikehall Date: 02/21/2007
Windows XP Embedded SP2 Feature Pack 2008 Technology Preview
Windows Vista ships with a set of new and interesting technologies, this includes .NET Framework 3.0...
Author: mikehall Date: 02/21/2007
Meet Ilya Bukshteyn, Director of Marketing for Windows Embedded.
If you were at Embedded World 2007 in Nuremberg/Germany you probably met with Ilya, the director of...
Author: mikehall Date: 02/21/2007
Meet the MEDC Content Team, 2005, 2006 and 2007.
I managed to get the content owners for MEDC 2005, 2006, and 2007 in a room - for some reason they...
Author: mikehall Date: 02/20/2007
Crackdown now available for XBOX 360
Crackdown for XBOX 360 is available from this morning! - The Microsoft Company Store opened at 9am...
Author: mikehall Date: 02/20/2007
Have you played with MSN Radio ?
One of my colleagues showed me MSN Radio this afternoon - it's pretty cool, you enter an artist or...
Author: mikehall Date: 02/19/2007
MEDC 2007 Podcast #1 - A chat with Derek Snyder and Mike Hall
Derek Snyder (all up content owner for MEDC 2007) dropped by my office this afternoon for a chat...
Author: mikehall Date: 02/19/2007
The ultimate hands free device.
Forget the bluetooth headset, why carry two devices that both need to be charged, perhaps the...
Author: mikehall Date: 02/19/2007
Motivating MEDC 2007 Speakers.
Derek Snyder and Loke Uei have been running around Microsoft Campus with a video camera to see how...
Author: mikehall Date: 02/17/2007
Point of Service for .NET v1.11 is now available
POS for .NET V1.11 is Microsoft’s implementation of the industry’s Unified Point of Service (UPOS)...
Author: mikehall Date: 02/15/2007
Webinar: Rapidly Building Multimedia Devices on Windows Embedded CE
According to the 2003 Embedded Market Forecasters report, nearly a third of final designs fail to...
Author: mikehall Date: 02/15/2007
On10: Windows Mobile 6
Derek Snyder has been interviewed by On10.net - in this video Derek describes some of the cool new...
Author: mikehall Date: 02/15/2007
FIX: U.S. daylight saving time changes in 2007 do not occur on the correct day on Windows CE 5.0-based devices
U.S. daylight saving time zones change in 2007. However, these changes do not occur on the correct...
Author: mikehall Date: 02/14/2007
.NET Micro Framework SDK 2.0 released.
At Embedded World in Nuremberg/Germany the .NET Micro Framework team released the .NET Micro...
Author: mikehall Date: 02/14/2007
Everything you wanted to know about Windows Mobile 6
Here are some links to Windows Mobile 6 videos that show (in some detail) the new features - note...
Author: mikehall Date: 02/14/2007
It's not the size that counts...
I had an e-mail asking why someone would move from their existing 100kb operating system to Windows...
Author: mikehall Date: 02/11/2007
Arrived in Nuremberg.
Finally arrived in Nuremberg after the flight from Paris was delayed due to problems with the...
Author: mikehall Date: 02/11/2007
Want to know what's new in Windows Mobile 6 ?
There are two ways to find out what's new in Windows Mobile 6. 1. Go to Jason Langridge's blog and...
Author: mikehall Date: 02/10/2007
MEDC 2007 Vista Sidebar Countdown Gadget
Got Vista ? - looking for a cool Sidebar gadget that gives you a countdown to MEDC 2007 ? - then...
Author: mikehall Date: 02/09/2007
Windows Mobile 6 Announced.
It looks like Windows Mobile 6 has been announced (link to Engadget) - and Loke has some information...
Author: mikehall Date: 02/09/2007
Video: .NET Micro Framework, Invaders and Robots.
I managed to get some time with Olivier Bloch, Embedded DPE for Microsoft France - we've been...
Author: mikehall Date: 02/07/2007
It's demo time...
I've been working on some demos with Olivier Bloch (Embedded DPE guy in Microsoft France) that...
Author: mikehall Date: 02/06/2007
Got Vista ? Got Windows Mobile ? - Get Windows Mobile Device Center
If you've been using Windows Mobile devices for a while you are probably used to Active Sync, the...
Author: mikehall Date: 02/06/2007
Tech Days Paris: Day 1 - Demos, MicroFramework and French Fries.
The first day of Tech Days France/Paris is now over, this is a huge event with close to 12,000...
Author: mikehall Date: 02/05/2007
Demo Time - Bang, Flash! - there goes the power strip...
It's two hours before my monster embedded session at Tech Days "innovez avec les technologies...
Author: mikehall Date: 02/05/2007
.NET MicroFramework and Windows CE - What's the Difference ?
Continuing the series of What's the difference (CE 6.0 and Windows Mobile) - I got some questions...
Author: mikehall Date: 02/05/2007
Book: Professional Microsoft Robotics Studio
Amazon have a book listed called Professional Robotics Studio written by Martin Calsyn who was the...
Author: mikehall Date: 02/04/2007