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Friday, April 29, 2005 9:14 PM

MEDC Getting Close - one of the clues.

MEDC must be getting close, how do I know? – Each week I fill a basket with Twix and other treats and leave it outside my office for people within the Mobile and Embedded group to come and help themselves (Jeana Jorgensen started the practice
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Thursday, April 28, 2005 2:13 PM

Channel 9: Interview with Jim Allchin

MSDN Channel 9 has a really interesting interview with Jim Allchin – go check it out. – Mike
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Thursday, April 28, 2005 7:55 AM

Podcast get it to go: The MEDC 2005 Podcast Feed on Pocket PC.

A previous post showed you how to get the MEDC 2005 Podcast Feed on your desktop. Here's how you get it on your Windows Mobile Pocket PC. The steps are very similar: Download FeederReader from www.FeederReader.com and install it on your storage card
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Wednesday, April 27, 2005 2:24 PM

Podcast: Getting Started with the MEDC 2005 Podcast Feed

We have a Video Podcast feed running at this years Mobile and Embedded Developers Conference (MEDC 2005) – If you’re new to podcasting here’s how to get started on your desktop/laptop – look out for “how to get started” syncing the podcast feed directly
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Wednesday, April 27, 2005 12:23 PM

MEDC Podcast in the news.

It looks like the MEDC Podcast has been picked up by podcastingnews ... (it's also mentioned on Adam Curry's blog). Cool ! - Mike
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Tuesday, April 26, 2005 9:54 PM

WinHEC : Chris Muench Report for Day 2 - Everything has two sides

Here’s Chris Muench’s report from the second day of WinHEC 2005. After a promising first day I was looking forward the second day. The titles of the sessions I was planning to see looked very interesting and when I sat in I had big hopes for new information.
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Tuesday, April 26, 2005 9:26 AM

What is a Platform ?

The MSDN/Embedded home page has a link to MEDC 2005 – and has the following to say “Attend Mobile and Embedded DevCon (MEDC 2005), May 9–12, to share and learn more about the latest Windows Embedded platforms. Hear from Microsoft Chairman and Chief
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Tuesday, April 26, 2005 9:21 AM

Embedded Day at Driver Devcon.

Today is “Embedded Day” at the Driver Devcon – The event is being held at the Seattle Sheraton – after dropping off the car this morning I walked into the lobby to see not only the “Welcome to the Microsoft Driver Devcon” poster, but also a
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Tuesday, April 26, 2005 6:44 AM

Webcast: Comparing Embedded Linux and Windows Embedded.

This sounds like a Webcast not to be missed… I’m definately going to sign up for this one… Comparing Embedded Linux and Windows Embedded Tuesday, May 03, 2005 10:00 a.m. Pacific TimeExamine the differences between embedded Linux and Microsoft Windows
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Monday, April 25, 2005 8:18 PM

Rehersals at WinHEC and Chris Muench reporting on WinHEC Day 1.

Tomorrow (Tuesday 26th April) I’m presenting three sessions at WinHEC 2005 (which is combined with the Driver Devcon) sessions include Windows CE 5.0, Windows XP Embedded SP2 and Windows CE Test Kit (a combined session with James Zwygart) – While setting
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Monday, April 25, 2005 1:24 PM

Podcast: MEDC - THE Video to watch - Paul Yao, the Pirate...

Ahoy Matey… We captured some interviews with Paul Yao, Doug Boling, Sean Liming and Jim Wilson at the filming of the Mobile and Embedded “MSDN Code Room” (video coming soon) – during one of the interviews Paul Yao switches into “Pirate” mode, the video
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Monday, April 25, 2005 6:32 AM

MEDC 2005 Video Podcast Feed Updated.

Whether you’re going to MEDC 2005 or not you should certainly think about signing up for the MEDC 2005 Podcast Feed (you will need Doppler or iPodder to sync the content) – We’ve just updated the feed with some intro’s from Paul Yao,
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Friday, April 22, 2005 10:05 AM

Need a Star Wars hit ?

Need a Star Wars hit before Episode III comes out ? – take a look at Star Wars Revelations – an independent Star Wars Fan Film, looks pretty cool ! BTW, Star Wars day is coming…. May the 4th be with you… – Mike
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Thursday, April 21, 2005 9:50 AM

MEDC 2005 - Blogs, Podcasts, and Radio

Whether you're going to MEDC or not you can still be (virtually) there - we're going to be blogging, video podcasting, and even have a live radio show running each day from the event ! - Click HERE to get more information about the content feeds from
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Wednesday, April 20, 2005 10:14 PM

Windows Embedded Student Challenge - Chat Transcripts.

The chat transcripts for the Windows Embedded Student Challenge have been posted, see below. Windows Embedded Student Challenge Chat (April 5, 2005) Windows Embedded Student Challenge (April 6, 2005) Windows Embedded Student Challenge Chat (April 12,
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Wednesday, April 20, 2005 3:23 PM

Huh ?

Huh? - but it's not... – Mike
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Tuesday, April 19, 2005 9:59 AM

DemoFall 2005 - Got a cool product/demo ?

Hey, you’re building your product based on Windows CE or Windows XP Embedded, so it’s got to be cool, right ? – why not show the world just how cool your next generation of embedded product/technology is – register for Demo Fall 2005 Let me know if you
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Friday, April 15, 2005 11:47 AM

A peek at Longhorn Embedded...

The Windows XP Embedded team held an online chat on MSDN yesterday, the Windows XP Embedded and Windows CE chats can be pretty interesting, TechWeb have reported on parts of the chat that talk about Longhorn Embedded – it looks like some of the plans
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Friday, April 15, 2005 9:41 AM

Less Marketing, More Content ?

Do you find that the majority of web pages and videos you watch from large corporations are too marketingy? - Too much "rich, scalable, platform", and not enough "how to", "hands-on" and useful content ? - It's interesting to see how well MSDN
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Friday, April 15, 2005 9:32 AM

Podcasting - hitting mainstream media ?

You know that technology has hit the mainstream when the old Beeb (British Broadcasting Corporation) adopts the technology - over the last several months the Beeb has been running a trial, exposing three radio shows as Podcast streams - The three podcasts
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Thursday, April 14, 2005 7:34 PM

MEDC - Blogger Discount Take II.

Ok chaps (and chapesses), the first run of Blogger discounts for MEDC disappeared in a flash! – so we’ve decided to run a second promotion – here’s some words from the marketing folks that explains what’s happening… <MarketingFluff> Based on the
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Thursday, April 14, 2005 5:23 PM

Windows CE Speech Engines.

If you’re building a speech enabled device based on Windows CE then you are probably looking for a Windows CE compatible Speech Engine, perhaps one of the following would be good to check out… http://www.svox.com http://www.sakrament.com (the
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Thursday, April 14, 2005 2:50 PM

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Thursday, April 14, 2005 10:56 AM

Enabling Bluetooth on your Windows CE Embedded Image.

It looks like some of the Windows Embedded Student Challenge (WESC) teams are having problems adding Bluetooth support to their eBox reference board – this should be reasonably straight forward… Let’s assume that you have your Platform Builder project
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Thursday, April 14, 2005 9:17 AM

Job: Windows XP Embedded Product Manager.

Are you interested in working with Mobile and Embedded Technologies ? - We're looking for a Windows XP Embedded Product Manager - The job specification is posted on the Microsoft Career site - go check out the job spec, get your Resume up to date,
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Wednesday, April 13, 2005 3:06 PM

MSDN Code Room

Yesterday we recorded an episode of the MSDN Code Room covering Embedded and Mobile technologies – four well known MVP’s (Sean Liming, Jim Wilson, Doug Boling, and Paul Yao) took the role of developers in the code room – they were given 5 hours to
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Monday, April 11, 2005 6:51 PM

What's that on your bookshelf ?

What can you tell about someone by looking at their bookshelf ? - I run around Microsoft campus talking to a mixture of developers, marketing, PR, sales etc... - I've decided there are two ways to find out about a person, one is to look at the e-mail
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Monday, April 11, 2005 5:37 PM

Podcast: Video/Tutorial - Writing Native Applications for Windows CE 5.0

Hey, On Friday of last week I recorded a video that shows how to write an MFC application for a Windows CE 5.0 embedded device – this requires that you generate a custom SDK for your platform – you can get the tutorial through the podcast XML file or
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Monday, April 11, 2005 7:37 AM

Slow Blog Week...

I'm going to be out of the office most of this week working on and filming the MSDN "Code Room" which is using Mobile and Embedded technologies - Today is setup, tomorrow is filming, and Wednesday is interviews with the contestants - With all this going
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Saturday, April 09, 2005 8:03 PM

Moving from Palm to Windows Mobile

Hey, this is pretty interesting TankerBob takes a look at Pocket PC compared with Palm – the results are interesting. – Mike  
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Friday, April 08, 2005 5:46 PM

It's Friday, that means...

It must be time to release a boat load of Podcast files… This includes Interview with Ford Davidson, a Product Manager in the Windows Mobile Team (mp3) Building a Windows CE 5.0 operating system and adding files (wmv) Writing Compact Framework
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Friday, April 08, 2005 5:18 PM

Podcasting from MEDC

We’re going to be Podcasting from the Mobile and Embedded Developers Conference – You will be able to get the ‘buzz’ from the event, even if you’re not able to make it in person. The XML/RSS feed is up and running, and we have a sample video for you to
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Friday, April 08, 2005 4:53 PM

MSDN Code Room - Mobile/Embedded...

You may have already watched the first installment of the MSDN Code Room – next week we have some well known MVP’s flying into Redmond to take part in a Windows Mobile and Embedded “Code Room” Challange (I can’t tell you what the challenge is, just
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Thursday, April 07, 2005 11:35 AM

Compact Framework - # Controls on a Panel ?

This question came up from yesterdays Windows Embedded Student Challenge – how many controls can you have on a Compact Framework panel ? – provide your answers on a postcard to… So, I wasn’t sure of the answer to this one, so pinged some of the
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Wednesday, April 06, 2005 12:47 PM

Are Windows Mobile Smartphones too big ?

Today I took delivery of my new Windows Mobile Smartphone, this is a clamshell device which I was hoping was going to fit into my pocket - much to my surprise it's slightly larger than expected. - Mike
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Tuesday, April 05, 2005 9:26 PM

Read, Listen, Watch ?

I’ve been blogging for just over a year now (can you believe it! – the time has just flown by [my Latin teacher at school would say that Time Flies like a Mouse and Fruit Flies like a Banana]) and I appear to have the odd one or two readers (you both
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Tuesday, April 05, 2005 9:21 PM

GetTickCount - Has it really been 49 days ?

Jack Crenshaw is at it again... He's back on the "There's something wrong with GetTickCount" and therefore there must be something wrong with Windows CE deal - what's with that ? - Here's a link to the two articles Time to re-evaluate Windows CE and
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Monday, April 04, 2005 9:25 PM

I'm an Evil Genius !

I have a copy of Electronic Circuits for the Evil Genius and the hardware needed to build the various projects – Looks like this is going to be fun, perhaps hooking some of the projects up to a Windows CE reference board would be kinda cool. I built
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Sunday, April 03, 2005 11:05 PM

Windows XP Embedded - Speed of development or Size of image ?

Andy Allred is comparing Windows NT 4 Embedded and Windows XP Embedded on the Windows Embedded blog – Windows NT 4 Embedded wasn’t really that componentized, there were some large buckets of functionality that could be
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Friday, April 01, 2005 2:13 PM

A link to Erick Eidus's Blog Site.

I've received a number of comments from people who enjoyed listening to the interview with Erick Eidus - Erick has a blog, click here to follow along.- Mike
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Friday, April 01, 2005 10:32 AM

Nokia NGage running Windows Mobile

Just found this on Modaco a screen shot of a Nokia NGage running Windows Mobile – I wonder if this is real (just looking at today’s date on my Suunto SPOT watch) – Mike
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Friday, April 01, 2005 9:05 AM

Platform Builder Documentation Team needs YOUR help!

It's March Survey madness (actually it's April, but March sounded better).The Windows CE Platform Builder documentation team are interested in what improvments could be made to the documentation - take this ">short anonymous survey to provide your feedback
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