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Tuesday, May 31, 2005 7:24 PM

TechEd Podcast - going, or not going, get the feed...

The Microsoft Podcast is heading for Orlando Florida this weekend to Podcast TechEd 2005 – Learn about how to sync Video Podcasts to your desktop, laptop/tablet, or Windows Mobile Device here – and here’s a direct link to the Podcast XML file. <–
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Tuesday, May 24, 2005 10:07 PM

Windows Embedded for Point of Service - Released

From Microsoft PressPass CHICAGO -- May 24, 2005 -- Today at the Retail Systems 2005 Conference & Exposition, Microsoft Corp. announced the worldwide availability of its new Windows® Embedded for Point of Service software platform. Directly addressing
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Tuesday, May 24, 2005 7:40 AM

Microsoft Virtual Earth - Sweeeeet...

Check this out on MSDN Channel 9 – Microsoft Virtual Earth, this is extremely cool. – Mike 
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Friday, May 20, 2005 9:06 PM

Windows Mobile 5.0 - Managed Direct3D - Super Cool Application.

Check this out – a port of NASA’s WorldWind application on Windows Mobile 5.0 using Managed Direct3D – very cool. – Mike
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Friday, May 20, 2005 7:44 PM

Podcasting Crew are back ! - Who's going to TechEd 2005 ?

It looks like the Mike Hall/Pete Grondal (who is Pete Grondal? - is he real, has anyone actually seen him?) Podcast crew is back on the road, this time we're off to cover TechEd 2005 - The first day of TechEd is going to be stupid crazy for me, I will
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Friday, May 20, 2005 11:01 AM

Coding 4 Fun.

You’ve been at work all day, coding cool and interesting applications, or debugging someone else’s code, or maintaining 20 year old FORTRAN spaghetti – so, what’s planned for the evening ? – check out Coding4Fun - http://msdn.microsoft.com/coding4fun/.
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Friday, May 20, 2005 6:58 AM

Will the real R2D2 please stand up... (and walk...)

This is kinda cool, and timed just right with the launch of Star Wars Episode III – The University of Pisa (no, it’s not a training ground for Dominos!) have been working on a prototype of R2D2. This will be presented in Livorno on May 19th during
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Thursday, May 19, 2005 12:26 PM

Sue Loh - Remote Kernel Tracker.

Sue Loh from the Windows CE development group has an excellent article on using the Remote Kernel Tracker - go check it out. Oh, also, while I think about it - if you attended the Windows CE hands on labs at MEDC I'd be interested in hearing from
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Thursday, May 19, 2005 11:56 AM

Another Keynote, already ?

I’m back in the office after last weeks MEDC 2005 event and am getting ready for TechEd 2005 – tons of cool demo’s to work on… just look at the state of my office… – Mike
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Wednesday, May 18, 2005 9:21 AM

Caption please...

Pete Grondal (podcast camera guy from MEDC) wouldn’t stay still long enough to transcode some of the podcast videos, solution was to tape him to his chair… Let me know if you have any appropriate captions to go with the photo… – Mike
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Tuesday, May 17, 2005 10:58 PM

MEDC 2005 - Photo's from the event - and Podcasting, worth it ?

Here’s a quick photo wrap up of MEDC 2005 – for me this was a fun packed event, with non-stop sessions, press meetings, podcast interviews – it really does make sense to combine the Mobile and Embedded conferences together, there’s a ton of overlap
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Monday, May 16, 2005 7:07 PM

Feedback on MEDC 2005

Hey, We’re really, really interested in your feedback on MEDC 2005 – what were the highlights, lowlights, what could have been better, what should we do more of next time around ? Send your feedback either as comments to this post, or, if you prefer
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Sunday, May 15, 2005 4:14 PM

Vegas and the Developer.

MEDC 2005 was running in Las Vegas last week (I need to write a wrap-up blog post, and capture some video demos of some of the cool new Windows Mobile 5.0 and Visual Studio 2005 and Compact Framework 2.0 features). It was really strange to see so many
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Friday, May 13, 2005 4:48 PM

Dr Neil Roodyn and Dr Pete Stanski (MS Developer Show) visit Redmond

Dr Neil Roodyn and Dr Pete Stanski visited Redmond today, and dropped into my office to record a Podcast interview (see below) – I will post a link when this goes live – Interestingly, Pete recorded the interview on his Tablet PC (looked like a Toshiba
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Friday, May 13, 2005 3:39 PM

MEDC 2005 Videos - Come and get them...

If you missed MEDC and didn't sign up to the MEDC 2005 Podcast Feed then here's what you missed - we recorded over 80 video segments on site at MEDC 2005 - here's the first batch, more to come next week when we finish editing and transcoding the content
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Thursday, May 12, 2005 10:43 PM

MED Keynote : Behind the scenes...

Check out the video from behind the scenes at the keynote for MEDC 2005 So, MEDC 2005 US has come to a close, it’s been a blast, and also a ton of work – We’ve been Podcasting “LIVE” from the MEDC event, this is the first video Podcast from any Microsoft
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Thursday, May 12, 2005 2:20 PM

MEDC 2005 - Elvis and Top Speaker Scores

Hey, check this out, Elvis has joined the MEDC 2005 Podsquad. and, check out the speaker “leader board” at MEDC 2005… Be aware that we’re only interested in providing the BEST content to the delegates at the conference, there’s no bragging rights
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Thursday, May 12, 2005 12:35 AM

Hmmm... Stinky Pete snapped a photo at exactly the wrong moment...

ok, I’m not sure how to introduce this… Stinky Pete took the following photo in the Podcast recording room this evening, apparently he sees a resemblance… Now, where did I leave that Acorn... ? – Mike
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Wednesday, May 11, 2005 4:34 PM

Windows Embedded Source Tools for Bluetooth

Check this out, Microsoft has released something called the Windows Embedded Source Tools for Bluetooth – this is a shared source bluetooth class library wrapper for Bluetooth development. The code was written by Anil Dhawan (check
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Wednesday, May 11, 2005 4:33 PM

MSDN Code Room - Mobile and Embedded Devleopment.

Check this out! – this is “Sweeeeeet” – the second installment of the “Code Room” is now available for you to check out, we had some of your favorite MVP’s taking part, Doug Boling, Sean Liming, Jim Wilson, and Paul Yao. This is pretty entertaining!
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Wednesday, May 11, 2005 4:31 PM

Podcast : Bill Gates Podcast at MEDC 2005 !

This doesn’t need an introduction, here’s BillG podcasting from MEDC 2005 ! – Mike
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Tuesday, May 10, 2005 11:53 PM

MEDC 2005 - Sweeeeet.

It looks like the word of the MEDC 2005 event is “Sweeeeet”, during the keynote this was dropped into the conversation three times by Ford Davidson, twice by Neil Enns, and once by me… See how often you can hear this being used at the event – perhaps
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Tuesday, May 10, 2005 5:46 PM

MEDC Keynote Video now available.

This mornings MEDC 2005 Keynote Video is now available to watch on Microsoft.com – check it out, the demo’s are awesome. – Mike
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Tuesday, May 10, 2005 8:24 AM

MEDC Podcast on the Daily Source Code.

Check out the MEDC 2005 Promo in todays Daily Source Code – the fun begins at about 22 minutes and 50 seconds… (check out the croaky voice, not ideal when just about to do a keynote demo). – Mike
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Tuesday, May 10, 2005 7:46 AM

MEDC Keynote: Less than two hours to go...

The MEDC Keynote gets started in about two hours – the keynote demo crew have been ‘on site’ since 6:30am for final a run through of the demos, so far, everything is working perfectly (famous last words!) – I have my trusty video camera with me behind
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Monday, May 09, 2005 9:41 PM

Keynote Rehersals - long day.

Today was a long day, it’s now 9:40pm and we’ve just got finished with keynote rehersals, here’s the proof, one of the keynote support crew sleeping under one of the hardware tables behind stage. And here’s three of the keynote demo speakers preparing
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Monday, May 09, 2005 6:05 PM

MEDC 2005 - Podcast, first views...

Today we had pre-conference tutorials running at MEDC, so we decided it would be great to drop in and capture an interview with Jim Wilson, Sean Liming, and Doug Boling (see photo’s below), we crashed their presentations, ran onto stage and captured a
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Monday, May 09, 2005 4:51 PM

Podcast: Day 0.5 - Tons of new content available !

Today (Monday) we’re setting up MEDC, testing out hands on labs and running through keynote rehersals (fun, fun, fun!). The Podcast studio is up and running, and we’ve already captured a number of videos from around the event, including crashing
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Monday, May 09, 2005 10:50 AM

MEDC 2005 - Give us feedback from your Mobile Device

Hey, If you’re at MEDC 2005 and want to provide feedback on the event (and we definately want to hear your feedback) then perhaps you could do this directly from your Windows Mobile device. Record an audio file with your thoughts and e-mail the file
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Sunday, May 08, 2005 5:06 PM

Podcast: MEDC Podcast Room...

It’s Sunday, May 8th – we’re setting up, and testing the conference hands on labs, the keynote room is getting built, and the Podcast Encoding Farm is coming together (see image below). The Encoding Farm comprises of 7 Laptops and 8 Tablet PC’s, and has
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Sunday, May 08, 2005 10:30 AM

Jamespr talks about the weeks leading up to MEDC

Check out Jamespr’s blog – James talks about the work on the conference over the last few weeks. We have more keynote rehersals tomorrow, I’m hoping this goes well, especially since I completely lost my voice on Friday of last
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Wednesday, May 04, 2005 8:49 PM

Microsoft Technologies available for Licensing.

Just been reading Brian Groth’s blog – did you know that there are a number of technologies available to build products with? Here’s the list – Would any of these be useful for building embedded systems? – perhaps so, it’s probably good to take
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Wednesday, May 04, 2005 6:34 PM

Podcast: Link to the MEDC 2005 Podcast Feed...

Click the (scary) image below to get the XML/RSS feed for the MEDC 2005 Podcast... We're hoping to get interviews with speakers, attendees and Microsoft people behind Mobile, Embedded, and App-Dev technologies - should be fun. BTW: Podcast logo courtesy
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Wednesday, May 04, 2005 3:19 PM

Podcast: Interview with Major Nelson from the XBOX team - get the scoop on XBOX and MEDC...

Hey, I had the pleasure to sit down with Major Nelson (Larry Hryb) from the XBOX team, we talked about the next generation XBOX (and get the first LIVE look at the next generation XBOX industrial design, brought to you in glorious audiovision),
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Tuesday, May 03, 2005 9:12 PM

.NET Show - 50th Episode - The Future of the Platform

The .NET Show has just hit it’s 50th Episode – the title for the show is The Future of the Platform – special guests include Bill Gates. – Mike
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Tuesday, May 03, 2005 8:17 PM

Podcast: Interview with Robert Levy - Windows Mobile and .NET Compact Framework 2.0

Today I met with Robert Levy, a Program Manager on the Windows Mobile Developer Experience Team – we discussed the advantages of managed development, what’s happening with the .NET Compact Framework 2.0 in ROM and new API’s for Windows
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Tuesday, May 03, 2005 3:06 PM

Going to MEDC ? - Have a PSP and Wipeout Pure ? - Up for a challenge ?

Hey, Just wondering if any of you guys (or girls) are going to MEDC and taking your Sony PSP with you? – if so, and you happen to have Wipeout Pure, just wondering if you’re up to having a little multiplayer head-to-head at MEDC, perhaps before
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Monday, May 02, 2005 9:42 PM

Podcast: Eavesdropping on James Pratt - What are the benefits of Managed applicaiton development...

James Pratt was in my office today, I was interviewing Robert Levy about application development for Windows Mobile devices (I'm just editing the interview now, so expect the podcast link shortly) - It just so happened that James was sat right in front
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Monday, May 02, 2005 11:50 AM

WE-Dig meeting, May 4th (Star Wars Day!!) - Redmond, WA - Architecture of ARM Cores and Instruction Sets.

Here's the details on the next Windows Embedded Developer Interest Group Meeting...  Architecture of ARM Cores and Instruction Sets James McNiven and Andrew Sloss from ARM present ARM Architecture and Technologies. Expect a lively, entertaining
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Sunday, May 01, 2005 9:29 PM

Final day of WinHEC and…fun with X64 and “Old” Software

Chris Muench repots on the last day of WinHEC – the report is somewhat delayed, for good reason! It is Sunday and about 3 days after the final day of WinHEC. You might wonder why my report shows up that late. Well, let me explain: I have this very nice
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