Windows Embedded Standard (Standard 7, Standard 2009, XPe...)
Microsoft Research Faculty Summit
Yesterday I manned the Windows Embedded Academic Program booth at the Microsoft Research Faculty...
Author: Embedded Team Date: 07/18/2007
The EW Dev Team Is Hiring!
Do you want to work on the team that enables Windows to run on new devices? Do you have strong...
Author: Embedded Team Date: 07/17/2007
Current or Not?
Has the following ever happened to you? You disable a device using Device Manager and reboot the...
Author: Embedded Team Date: 07/17/2007
July 2007 Supplemental Updates (for Desktop Installer Tool) are available
The July 2007 Microsoft Windows XP Embedded Supplement Updates are now available on the Mobile &...
Author: Embedded Team Date: 07/16/2007
What Do You Want To Configure?
We periodically get requests from customers for adding additional configurable options to components...
Author: Embedded Team Date: 07/11/2007
Sean's Tips and Tricks for Installing XPe on Vista
If you've moved to the Windows Vista operating system and are thinking about migrating your XP...
Author: Embedded Team Date: 07/09/2007
Directly querying the Mantis DB for Registry resource ownership
In a previous post we looked at how you can directly query the SQL DB's component tables for the...
Author: Embedded Team Date: 07/06/2007
Directly querying the Mantis DB for file resource ownership
A request came in to me the other day from Dave Baker on behalf of a customer and I wanted to share...
Author: Embedded Team Date: 07/03/2007
Security Catalogs and Windows XP Embedded
Overview Security Catalogs are an important feature of Windows’ Security system. These catalogs help...
Author: Embedded Team Date: 07/02/2007
Controller Area Network
Before joining Microsoft I worked for almost 8 years in the automotive industry developing various...
Author: Embedded Team Date: 06/29/2007
HME (Home Media Ecosystem) for Windows XP Embedded
Overview HME (Home Media Ecosystem) is new with Windows Media Player 11. This feature allows a...
Author: Embedded Team Date: 06/28/2007
Driver Quality - Part 2
This is a continuation of the article I wrote here. This part focuses on the utilities that you can...
Author: Embedded Team Date: 06/27/2007
June MSDN Chat Transcript Posted
Thanks to everyone who joined us for our last chat session on June 12th. If you weren’t able to make...
Author: Embedded Team Date: 06/25/2007
Happy Ending of MEDC China 2007
When I entered the speakers party this evening (well, Seattle's this morning), I was congratulated...
Author: Embedded Team Date: 06/22/2007
First Day of MEDC China 2007
I feel great that I finally finished my 1st day of MEDC China. You won't believe that I actually did...
Author: Embedded Team Date: 06/21/2007
June XPE Updates now available on the ECE site
The June 2007 Microsoft Windows XP Embedded Supplement Updates are now available on the Mobile &...
Author: Embedded Team Date: 06/20/2007
On to MEDC China......
While Lynda and Randy finished up their MEDC India trip, I have started my MEDC China trip over the...
Author: Embedded Team Date: 06/19/2007
TechMela Continued
Techmela is taking place currently in Mumbai. This event combines 3 Microsoft events, namely MEDC,...
Author: Embedded Team Date: 06/15/2007
Techmela (MEDC) India
I have just finished up the first day of TechMela - https://www.techmela.com (or MEDC) in India. This...
Author: Embedded Team Date: 06/15/2007
More Parallelism
While rooting around in my mail folders, I found an item from last year that makes a great follow-up...
Author: Embedded Team Date: 06/14/2007
Windows XP Embedded Update Rollup 1.0 Now Available on the ECE
The Update Rollup 1.0 for Windows XP Embedded is now available for download on the Mobile &...
Author: Embedded Team Date: 06/13/2007
Apple's Safari On Windows
Is It Componentized For XP Embedded Yet? Download the Safari Beta3 for XP and Vista here. Hey, this...
Author: Embedded Team Date: 06/12/2007
Reminder - Join us tomorrow (6/12/07) for our MSDN Online Chat
This is a reminder that we are hosting a MSDN online chat tomorrow (6/12/07) morning, from 10-11...
Author: Embedded Team Date: 06/11/2007
XPe & TechEd 2007
As some of you probably have known, TechEd 2007 is happening in Orlando this week. Deci R. in this...
Author: Embedded Team Date: 06/08/2007
Fundamental Parallelism
Recently published on Embedded.com is a two part article on the subject of parallel programming....
Author: Embedded Team Date: 06/08/2007
Driver Quality – Part 1
A question arose a few weeks back about how can third parties ensure that the drivers included in...
Author: Embedded Team Date: 06/05/2007
World's First Thin Client Notebook?
ATLabs has shipped what they're claiming is to be the world's first thin client notebook, the...
Author: Embedded Team Date: 06/01/2007
Live MSDN Chat – June 12th
It’s been a busy spring around here with MEDC and countless other things going on, but we’re ready...
Author: Embedded Team Date: 05/24/2007
Announcing Windows XP Embedded Wiki Site!
We are happy to announce that now we have a Windows XP Embedded Wiki site on MSDN Channel 9 adding...
Author: Embedded Team Date: 05/23/2007
Remote Desktop Connection 6.0 MUI Language Pack Now Available on the ECE
The Remote Desktop Connection 6.0 MUI Language Pack is now available on the Mobile & Embedded...
Author: Embedded Team Date: 05/22/2007
New Testing Forum is Now Live!
Ever wanted to know what Dev Unit tests were, or the difference between Smoke and Sanity testing?...
Author: Embedded Team Date: 05/18/2007
Interesting XPe Device from Siemens
An article today on a U.K. web site, Drives & Controls, talks about new devices from Siemens...
Author: Embedded Team Date: 05/17/2007
MEDC Continues...with Videos & MEDC Worldwide!
The curtains of MEDC US shut a week ago. If you missed the show, no worry, you have two options! 1....
Author: Embedded Team Date: 05/15/2007
Do You DIG It?
Last week I was privileged to be able to deliver one of my MEDC 2007 breakout sessions to the...
Author: Embedded Team Date: 05/14/2007
May 2007 Microsoft Windows XP Embedded Supplement Update Now Available on the ECE
The May 2007 supplement Update is now available on the ECE for Microsoft® Windows® XP Embedded...
Author: Embedded Team Date: 05/11/2007
Using the Clipboard to streamline XPe component handling
Overview At times, building a component in Component Designer involves typing in a long list of...
Author: Embedded Team Date: 05/11/2007
MEDC Activities
The MEDC rush is over and I did not even have a chance to blog while I was there. However, Mike Hall...
Author: Embedded Team Date: 05/09/2007
You had me at ZigBee
OK, I like refrigerator magnets. So much so, that my wife has expelled my "collection" to a box in...
Author: Embedded Team Date: 05/08/2007
"My Device Driver Won't Install From The Desktop"
When helping three customers this week I wound up providing basically the same resolution to each of...
Author: Embedded Team Date: 05/07/2007
Image Diff Error Message
While I was preparing the Image Diff Hands-on-Lab for MEDC I ran into a painful error. It took me...
Author: Embedded Team Date: 05/02/2007
Where's the EFS component?
I'm at MEDC in Las Vegas sitting in the 'ask the experts cabana' with Milong Sabandith. Milong is...
Author: Embedded Team Date: 05/01/2007
What's This New Time Zone Settings Component?
From searching back through the archives of the newsgroup it appears that there have been one-off...
Author: Embedded Team Date: 04/30/2007
File Based Write Filter and Time Zone Settings Update Now Available on the ECE
The File Based Write Filter for Windows XP Embedded (KB 929403) and Time Zone Settings for Windows...
Author: Embedded Team Date: 04/27/2007
Useful USB Boot Information
If your device fails to boot from a UFD and: 1) Your device is getting through NTLDR and you're...
Author: Embedded Team Date: 04/26/2007
A Cure for Daylight Savings Time Amnesiacs
In the 1993 movie Groundhog Day, Bill Murray plays the role of Phil Connors, a man who goes to sleep...
Author: Embedded Team Date: 04/24/2007
MEDC, MEDC, MEDC ......
I still vividly remember I was contacted by Derek Snyder, MEDC 2007 Content Owner, to be the XPe...
Author: Embedded Team Date: 04/23/2007
April 2007 Windows XP Embedded Updates and New Downloads on the ECE
The April 2007 Windows XP Embedded monthly supplement Updates are now available on the Mobile &...
Author: Embedded Team Date: 04/20/2007
Using Sun's JRE on XPe
Sun Microsystems' JRE (Java Runtime Environment) is one of the more popular third party software...
Author: Embedded Team Date: 04/19/2007
A Small Percentage of Error...
A recent post in the XP Embedded forum highlighted an issue related to running vb scripts on...
Author: Embedded Team Date: 04/17/2007