Announcing "Feature Pack 2007" for XP Embedded!
The team has been extremely busy the last 4 months working on a feature pack for XP Embedded and we're just about ready to loop you into what we've been doing by giving you early access to the product in the form of a Technology Preview (not quite a Beta). The bottom of this entry has participant information, by enrolling today you can get more details than I'm listing below.
Among our biggest goals in this Feature Pack are to improve the developer's experience and to enable new capabilities and Microsoft technologies on your embedded device.
This is far from an all inclusive list, among the most interesting aspects of this FP are:
- New EEFs! Such as File Based Write Filter and Registry Filter.
- USB Boot! Yes, this is native USB Boot capability in XPe!
- Enhancements to EWF and Hibernate Once Resume Many
- Many of the bug fixes you've been asking for in the Tools (such as Target Designer, CMI, Import Framework, SLX/XML usability)
- New command line tool that replicates Target Designer, enables you to script your builds and much much more!
- Tons of work on component dependencies to reduce footprint (including removing dependencies to the full "Internet Explorer" component! )
- We've added new configurable UI to common components to simplify your offline configuration of images
- New components added to the database to address more Application Compatibility challenges
- New macro components to allow installation of other Microsoft technologies in your runtime
- All security patches for XPe-SP2 rolled up to the Feature Pack repository
Here are instructions to join the program and participate in early testing:
You are invited to participate in a pre-release program on the Microsoft Connect Web site
(https://connect.microsoft.com). Microsoft Connect enables you to communicate with Microsoft developers, product managers and other development team members to help make our products the best they can be.
To accept this invitation and become a member, please follow these steps:
1) Visit the Microsoft Connect Web site (https://connect.microsoft.com).
2) Click Invitations on the Connect menu.
3) You will need to sign in using a valid Windows Live ID before you can continue to the Invitations page.
4) Enter your Invitation ID in the box. Your invitation ID is: 123-BC7M-6GVK
5) Click Go.
6) If you have not previously registered with Microsoft Connect, you might be required to register before you continue with the invitation process.
7) You will then be asked to complete a User Profile survey for the program.
To report a problem or to ask a question, visit the Contact Us page (linked to at the bottom of every page of the Microsoft Connect Web site).
For questions regarding this Community Technology Preview please email viewcust @ microsoft.com
[UPDATE! 15:00 7/10/06]
I just received an updated invitation code that should 'just work'. I updated the original instructions above with this new ID: 123-BC7M-6GVK
1. Go to https://connect.microsoft.com
2. Sign in with a MS Passport or Windows Live ID account
3. Click on Available Connections
4. Scroll to the bottom of the page and click on our program: Windows XP Embedded SP2 Feature Pack 2007 Community Tech Preview.
- Andy
Comments
Anonymous
July 09, 2006
Well, I tried. It bombed after I entered my details with
afa7ff7c-7868-4352-8099-0b8bbe4c108c
if that helps.
Ah well.Anonymous
July 10, 2006
Error : 240232ad-e027-462e-9e8d-6923469e4bb9
:-(Anonymous
July 10, 2006
I apologize for the issues with this interface. Please contact the alias listed in this blog entry and we'll help sort it out, it's <b> viewcust @microsoft.com</b>.
I'll also ask Shayna (our PM configuring the Connect site) if she can investigate as well.
AndyAnonymous
July 10, 2006
I'm sorry about the errors you are receiving on Connect - I am working with our website team to figure out why this is happening. In the meantime, you can still get onto our site by following these steps:
1. Go to http://connect.microsoft.com
2. Sign in with a MS Passport or Windows Live ID account
3. Click on Available Connections
4. Scroll to the bottom of the page and click on our program: Windows XP Embedded SP2 Feature Pack 2007 Community Tech Preview.
If you have any problems please email viewcust@microsoft.com
Thanks,
~ShaynaAnonymous
July 10, 2006
Please note that you MUST sign in with a MS Passport or Windows Live ID account; otherwise, you will not see the program as Shayna mentioned.
Thanks,
ThomasAnonymous
July 10, 2006
The Windows XP Embedded team has been working on a Feature Pack with a bunch of interesting features...Anonymous
July 10, 2006
I wanted to pass on some exciting news that was posted this morning on the Windows Embedded team blog...Anonymous
July 10, 2006
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July 19, 2006
I tried to connect using FireFox and I got the error message, but then I switched back to IE and it worked fine to connect.Anonymous
July 27, 2006
re: FireFox Problem:
I use FireFox too, without any problems...
regards,
floAnonymous
July 31, 2006
If you signed up for the XPe Feature Pack then you should have gotten this mail copied at the bottom....Anonymous
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