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Thursday, June 30, 2005 10:15 PM

XBOX 360 software may be licensed to 3rd parties.

How very timely, in the news today is BillG giving a presentation in Japan where he mentions that the xbox 360 software may be licensed to 3rd parties to build multimedia and consumer electronics devices. It just so happens that I chatted with Major
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Thursday, June 30, 2005 9:00 PM

Podcast Interview : Windows Embedded for Point of Service

Yesterday I met with two members of the Windows Embedded for Point of Service (WEPOS) team, Jeff Albertson and Jason Demeny. We discussed WEPOS, how this differs from Windows XP, and Windows XP Embedded, how to configure/install, deployment, management
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Thursday, June 30, 2005 6:55 PM

Scoble, perhaps Video can be a Podcast after all...

So, Scoble, what makes me think that video could be a Podcast ? - perhaps these videos might help... Bill Gates at MEDC 2005 [snip, I put TechEd, but this was actually MEDC] Steve Gillmor at Gnomedex 2005 Steve Garfield at Gnomedex 2005
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Thursday, June 30, 2005 1:38 PM

Opera 8 Browser for Windows Mobile Smartphone now available.

Opera 8 for Windows Mobile 2003 Smartphone is available for download from http://www.opera.com/products/mobile. Apparently, there's also a Windows Mobile Pocket PC version being worked on right now. - Mike
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Thursday, June 30, 2005 10:21 AM

PocketSoft: RTPatch - Patching Windows CE, Windows XP Embedded, and WEPOS

Shipping your embedded device typically isn't the end of the project - there are times when you need to apply a patch or update to a device out in the field, for Windows CE, Windows XP Embedded, and WEPOS you could use SMS, DUA, or SUS (for Windows XP
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Thursday, June 30, 2005 9:48 AM

Microsoft and Toshiba working on HD-DVD using Windows CE

Check out this PC World article - Microsoft and Toshiba working on HD-DVD players using Windows CE - sounds pretty cool! - Mike
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Thursday, June 30, 2005 9:09 AM

CE Gumstix Forum on WE-DIG

If you're interested in working on the Windows CE Gumstix project you might want to keep an eye on the WE-DIG Gumstix Forum (and there's an XML/RSS Feed!). Here's what you will need to get started... Windows CE 5.0 Evaluation Kit Gumstix Board (it
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Tuesday, June 28, 2005 4:58 PM

Video Podcast <g> - Gnomedex 2005

So, Pete Grondal (remember Pete’s awesome video from TechEd 2005?) took his trusty video camera to Gnomedex 2005, and captured about 20 videos, including interviews with Adam Curry, and Dave Winer – very cool. Here’s the list of Video Podcasts on Feedburner.
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Monday, June 27, 2005 11:13 AM

Podcast file is now updated - and this weeks Podcast interviews.

I’m in meetings most of the day today – so, what better time to update my Podcast XML file ! – the updated file includes the recent interviews with Chris Hill talking about Windows Mobile 5.0 and the Messaging and Security Feature Pack – and the interview
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Friday, June 24, 2005 2:42 PM

Travel - TechEd Europe and WWPC

So... I'm going to be jumping around the world (again), this time paying a flying (literally) visit to TechEd Europe (Amsterdam), and the WWPC (World Wide Partner Conference) - I'm going to be delivering keynote demos at both events, the trouble is that
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Friday, June 24, 2005 12:38 PM

Channel 9 - Longhorn and IE 7 - very cool...

Hey, check this out, that Scoble fellow yesterday had an interview with the Longhorn and IE7 teams, the video is now posted to MSDN Channel 9 Which reminds me... At this years MEDC event we had a TON of hands on labs - how useful would it be
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Thursday, June 23, 2005 1:12 PM

Windows Embedded Online Webcast (Tools Demos)

Yesterday morning (or several weeks ago if you are reading this in July!) I presented a one hour Windows CE and Windows XP Embedded online Seminar - the seminar was recorded and is now available to view on demand. Covering Windows CE 5.0 or Windows XP
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Tuesday, June 21, 2005 7:00 PM

Podcast: Interview with Chris Hill - Windows Mobile 5.0 and the Messaging and Security Feature Pack (aka EFP)

Today I met with Chris Hill, since Chris lives one corridor away from me this isn't an isolated incident ! - but, today I had my Podcast gear fired up and Mic's pointed in Chris' general direction - we discussed Windows Mobile 5.0, the Messaging and Security
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Tuesday, June 21, 2005 1:29 PM

Podcast : Interview with Paul Yao - Gumstix/CE/Robots

Yesterday I met with Paul Yao to talk about porting Windows CE to the Gumstix board, this is a community project started by the Windows Embedded Developer Interest Group (or WE-DIG) - we also talked about Windows/Embedded and a bunch of other interesting
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Monday, June 20, 2005 7:55 PM

Windows Embedded Student Challenge - Team Sam - Winning Project - Video

I recorded around Seven hours of video at the Windows Embedded Student Challenge, the winning team was from RMIT Australia, here's a link to the winning teams video at the expo hall - I will also get this added to my blogs Podcast/RSS/XML file.
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Monday, June 20, 2005 6:40 PM

Windows Embedded Student Challenge - Photo's from Team Nahual (Mexico)

This years Windows Embedded Student Challenge is now over, there were plenty of photo's being taken at the event, Team Nahual from Mexico have posted a series of photo's from around the event on this web site - look out for the photo's of BillG!
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Monday, June 20, 2005 6:13 PM

Let the Blog Wars begin!

I was in a meeting on Friday of last week with Christine Lukasik and XPlane and comic super star Jason Robards (can't find a web site), and we got talking about my blog, here's a link to the cartoon Jason knocked up in just a few of your earth minutes...
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Saturday, June 18, 2005 8:06 PM

Windows Embedded Student Challenge - Top 10 and Winning Team.

From the Immerge Technologies Blog - Here's the list of top ten teams from the ChallengE Chip-de-Carpe Diem - Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology Flying Dreams - Shanghai Jiaotong University Cute Engine - Southeast University Team
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Saturday, June 18, 2005 7:42 PM

Student Challenge - Coding Choices.

I spent most of Friday talking to each of the 30 Student Challenge teams, all of the teams needed to build/code their solution using a custom Windows CE operating system image - all teams had the choice of programming language/tools for their project
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Saturday, June 18, 2005 6:16 PM

Upcoming Podcast: WEPOS (Windows Embedded for Point of Service)

This coming week seems to be Podcast heavy (which is cool!) - I have a meeting with Jeff Albertson and Jason Demeny from the Windows Embedded for Point of Service (WEPOS) team - let me know whether you have any questions around building, deploying, or
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Saturday, June 18, 2005 2:48 PM

Windows Embedded Student Challenge - Finals

The Windows Embedded Student Challenge Finals are running this weekend at the Microsoft Campus in Redmond - the Challenge kicked off last year with over 270 teams from across the world taking part. The finals have 30 teams taking part, 10 from China,
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Thursday, June 16, 2005 3:48 PM

MEDC 2005 - Video Podcast list now available through FeedBurner.

The MEDC 2005 Video Podcast listing is now available through FeedBurner - If you didn't subscribe to the XML file then the FeedBurner site is an excellent way for you to browse the list of videos, select items you like the look of, and play them
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Wednesday, June 15, 2005 6:42 PM

TechEd 2005 Video Podcast now available on FeedBurner.

Here's the complete list of TechEd 2005 videos exposed on FeedBurner - this includes notes from each of the videos. - Mike
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Wednesday, June 15, 2005 4:53 PM

eVC Project Upgrade Tool for VS 2005 Beta 2

Visual Studio 2005 gives Windows CE developers the ability to write both native and managed code from the same tool (very cool!) - There's an upgrade wizard to take your existing eMbedded Visual C++ 3.0 or 4.0 applications over to Visual Studio 2005 Beta
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Wednesday, June 15, 2005 8:07 AM

Windows CE Gumstix Project - upcoming Podcast &lt;audio&gt;

The Windows Embedded Developer Interest Group (WE-DIG) has kicked off a project to port Windows CE to the Gumstix hardware reference board - I have a meeting with Paul Yao from WE-DIG next Monday and will be asking questions about this project, I plan
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Tuesday, June 14, 2005 7:01 PM

Major Nelson XBOX 360 Podcast (Audio &lt;g&gt;) - Questions ?

I've setup a chat with XBOX's Major Nelson (aka Larry Hryb) early next week - Larry was involved in the launch of XBOX 360, I'm really interested to hear more about the XBOX 360, so let me know what questions you want to ask. - Mike
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Tuesday, June 14, 2005 3:24 PM

Podcast == mp3 only ?

Just been having a discussion with the Scoble about our Video RSS feed from TechEd 2005 - Robert suggests that we shouldn't be calling these a "Podcast" because Podcasts are only for mp3 files and iPods. I disagree with this thinking, while it's true
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Monday, June 13, 2005 4:20 PM

Microsoft - What do you know ?

Last week I was at TechEd 2005 in (humid/wet) Orlando, Florida - I spent much of the week recording video interviews with speakers, attendees and people manning the booths in the expo hall - one thing struck me about spending time running around talking
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Friday, June 10, 2005 8:45 PM

TechEd 2005 - Final Videos...

Here’s the final set of videos from TechEd 2005 – we have 98 videos up on the TechEd 2005 RSS/XML feed, I will break these into categories next week to make it easier for you to look at the videos that might interest you TechEd 2005 - Review (A look
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Friday, June 10, 2005 11:03 AM

Podcast : TechEd 2005 - New Videos...

Here’s the next drop of videos from TechEd 2005, this must bring the total fairly close to 100 videos from TechEd – is this a good way to get content out to you ? Intel - Demo - TechEd 2005 Expo PodAttack - Peter Grondal - TechEd 2005 Jeffrey Richter
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Friday, June 10, 2005 9:56 AM

Podcast: Pod Attack on Pete Grondal (Podcast Team) - Jackass Video - MUST WATCH !!!

ok, so Pete stayed up all night editing videos, so once the TechEd party was over he couldn’t stay awake any longer, it would have been rude not to have taken advantage of the situation <g> Here’s the link to the video – we counted to three,
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Friday, June 10, 2005 7:20 AM

Look who's Podcasting... Arnold Schwarzenegger

You know that Podcasting is taking off when people like Arnold Schwarzenegger starts Podcasting – What’s really interesting is how the “enclosure” tag within the XML/RSS feed can be used to download anything, mp3, wma, mpeg, wmv – at TechEd 2005
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Friday, June 10, 2005 6:16 AM

TechEd 2005 - Even more videos...

Here’s a ton of new video content from TechEd 2005 – enjoy – you can get the complete list here http://strategery.geekswithblogs.net/TechEdPodcast.aspx Veronica - Interview - TechEd 2005 Expo (SMS) SQL Book Authors - Interview - TechEd 2005 Service
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Thursday, June 09, 2005 9:52 AM

Podcast: TechEd 2005 - Thursday June 9th

And here’s some of the videos from Thursday June 9th 2005 John Larkinson, Neil Roodyn - Interview - TechEd 2005 (xTreme Programming and stuff) Sam Rosenbalm - Expo - TechEd 2005 (Altiris) Brian Greene - Interview - TechEd 2005 (Veritas) BJ Holtgrewe
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Thursday, June 09, 2005 7:56 AM

TechEd 2005 - Podcast Videos Web Page.

Hey, some of those awfully clever blog people have created a web page that updates every 5 minutes to show the most up to date list of TechEd 2005 Podcast Videos – here’s the link. http://strategery.geekswithblogs.net/TechEdPodcast.aspx – Mike
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Wednesday, June 08, 2005 8:16 PM

Podcast Videos at TechEd 2005 - includes Don Box Pod Attack

And here’s the rest of today’s Podcast Videos from TechEd 2005 PodAttack on Don Box - TechEd 2005 Keynote Day 2 - PreShow Interview - Tim Keynote Day 2 - PreShow Interview - Troy Keynote Day 2 - PreShow Interviews Keynote Day 2 -
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Wednesday, June 08, 2005 5:26 PM

TechEd 2005 - Videos so far...

Here’s the list of videos we’ve produced so far at TechEd 2005 – We’re in the middle of uploading a TON of videos including a PodAttack on Don Box right in the middle of his modelling session (hope to have that up tonight). My favorites right now are
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Wednesday, June 08, 2005 2:12 PM

TiVo and Microsoft working together - get your TiVo shows on PMC, Pocket PC and Smartphone...

Interesting news here. TiVo (TIVO), Microsoft (MSFT) and Intel (INTC) announced a nationwide upgrade to the TiVoToGo service, enabling people for the first time to move TiVo content stored on a Microsoft Windows XP-based PC onto Windows Mobile-based
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Wednesday, June 08, 2005 8:16 AM

TechEd 2005 - Radison Hotel Lake Buena Vista Room Service.

The Radison hotel (7 miles from TechEd) has excellent room service, in the room there’s a card (see first image below) that states “Please circle the item needed on the inside cover, record your suite number and I will be happy to deliver the requested
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Tuesday, June 07, 2005 9:55 PM

TechEd 2005 - Interviews with the Vice Presidents...

One of the great things about TechEd 2005 is the number of Microsoft people on hand to discuss tools, products, technologies, and roadmaps. Yesterday we caught up with three VP’s who work in the Mobile and Embedded Devices group (MED), Office Server,
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Tuesday, June 07, 2005 5:04 PM

TechEd 2005 - Steve Ballmer Keynote, behind the scenes...

The Behind the Scenes Keynote video from MEDC was one of the most popular downloads from the MEDC Podcast – since it would be rude not to continue the tradition (yes, ok, MEDC was the first one) here’s the link to Behind the Scenes at the TechEd
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Tuesday, June 07, 2005 9:13 AM

TechEd 2005 - Keynote and Messaging and Security Pack for Windows Mobile 5.0

Yesterday was the first day of TechEd 2005 – during the keynote (transcript here – video here) we announced the Messaging and Security Feature Pack for Windows Mobile 5.0 (MSFP for WM5.0 – why are these names sooooo long?). MSFP for WM5.0 provides
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Saturday, June 04, 2005 8:46 PM

Podcast: TechEd 2005 - First three videos are up...

What a long day, Iit’s now 8:40pm in Seattle, 11:40pm in Orlando/Florida, I’ve been travelling since 6:30am this morning… Florida is just like Seattle, wet, thunderstorms (but somewhat warmer, it’s about 80F outside right now). Keynote setup and rehersals
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Wednesday, June 01, 2005 9:52 PM

TechEd 2005 - Mobilizer Madness.

Are you going to TechEd 2005, don’t have anything planned for the evenings, want to win a Smartphone ? – then sign up for Mobilizer Madness – Here’s the description of the game from the web site. Mobilizer Madness is coming to TechEd 2005!
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Wednesday, June 01, 2005 9:46 PM

New Office File Formats Announced.

Check this out on MSDN Channel 9 – Office will support XML as it’s default file format, what does this mean ? – it means the file format for Office will be open for anyone to create or manipulate office documents – think about non-Microsoft platforms,
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Wednesday, June 01, 2005 6:59 PM

What makes a good Keynote ?

So, TechEd 2005 is next week, and as usual there’s going to be a Keynote, this year delivered by Steve Ballmer – There’s going to be over 10,000 people in the audience for the keynote – what, for you, makes for a good keynote ? – demos (or demo’s that
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