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Saturday, July 15, 2006 11:47 AM

Windows XP Embedded Boot.ini and Arc path.

Ever wondered how the boot.ini and arc path settings are used to determine the boot device on your Windows XP Embedded system? - Sean Liming has an article on Windows for Devices that explains the boot arc path settings. - Mike  
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Thursday, July 13, 2006 9:32 AM

Windows Fundamentals for Legacy PCs "Eiger" Released.

Windows Fundamentals for Legacy PCs is based on Microsoft Windows XP Embedded Service Pack 2 (SP2) and is designed for companies with a significant number of older Windows PCs that they aren't ready to replace and that can't be easily upgraded to Windows
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Monday, July 10, 2006 9:07 PM

Windows XP Embedded - .NET Framework 2.0 Released !

Thought this might be useful to people building on Windows XP Embedded - the .NET Framework 2.0 has now been released as a component - you can download/install the from here. - Mike
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Monday, July 10, 2006 10:09 AM

Windows XP Embedded Feature Pack CTP

The Windows XP Embedded team has been working on a Feature Pack with a bunch of interesting features and are getting close to making this available as a Community Technology Preview (CTP), note that this isn't a Beta. I snagged the following from the
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Thursday, June 15, 2006 2:57 PM

MEDC 2006 - Next stop, Malaysia.

The first leg of the MEDC International events is done (Las Vegas/USA, Melbourne/Australia, Tokyo/Japan, and Nice/France) - the second leg of the tour gets started this coming weekend with Taiwan, China, and then Malaysia - unfortunately I don't get to
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Thursday, June 08, 2006 6:38 AM

Windows CE 6 or Windows XP Embedded ?

Windows CE 6 Beta is being given out at MEDC 2006 world-wide events - Windows CE 6 supports 32K processes (up from 32 processes) and 2GB Virtual Memory per process (up from 32MB per process) - this is now very much in line with Windows XP and therefore
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Monday, May 29, 2006 9:23 PM

FurryGoat - Booting from USB Disk on Key.

Steve Makofsky over at the FurryGoat Experience has some helpful hints/tips on how to get booting from a USB disk on key - Mike 
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Monday, May 29, 2006 12:47 AM

MEDC 2006 Japan - May 31st

Next stop on the MEDC World Tour is Tokyo - this is going to be a one day event keynoted by Michelle Freed (GM, Mobile Information Worker, Mobile and Embedded Devices group). Loke and I are delivering keynote demos and I'm also delivering a session
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Monday, May 29, 2006 12:38 AM

MEDC Oz

MEDC Australia has been and gone, there were two tracks each covering four sessions - on the "Embedded" side of the house we had Windows CE 6 Kernel, Windows CE 6 tools, Windows XP Embedded, and Windows Embedded for Point of Service (WEPOS).
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Monday, May 29, 2006 12:02 AM

Windows XP Embedded - Custom MFC 8.0 Shell.

I'm sat in the eskybar at Sydney airport waiting for my Qantas flight from Sydney to Tokyo - we've arrived at the airport early expecting to check-in for the flight and drop bags, get through security and then sit in the Sydney Qantas Business
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Tuesday, May 23, 2006 9:12 PM

Wednesday 24th May - MEDC 2006 Australia Keynote Rehearsal

It's 2:15pm, Wednesday 24th May, the day before the MEDC Australia event - We're in the Microsoft Melbourne office doing keynote rehearsals. Check out the amount of gear that I needed to bring with me from Seattle for the keynote! (bottom right
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Tuesday, May 16, 2006 5:25 PM

MEDC Oz - May 25th, Melbourne - Embedded Content.

The MEDC international tour gets started this weekend with Loke Uei (Content owner for MEDC Las Vegas, and Windows Mobile developer type), Andreas Penna (Windows Embedded Compete) Doug Boling (Windows CE, great speaker, book author), Sean Liming (Windows
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Tuesday, May 02, 2006 5:45 PM

MEDC Down Under - Who's Presenting/What's the content ?

The Mobile and Embedded Developers Conference (MEDC) is coming to Australia on May 25th - here's the Event Web Site. I'm going to be covering the new Windows CE 6 tools, giving a walkthrough of the new developer experience, showing how
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Monday, May 01, 2006 9:22 PM

T-1 Week - A look ahead to MEDC 2006

With just one week to go before the start of MEDC 2006 there's plenty to look forward to - here's some thoughts (in no particular order). A look at the next release of Windows CE - plenty of sessions and labs! Keynote demos! Plenty
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Tuesday, April 25, 2006 9:59 PM

MEDC Keynote Cart.

It's Tuesday 25th April - MEDC is a couple of weeks away, we have two keynote rehearsals a week at this point - next week we have a rehearsal each day of the week. I have so much gear for the keynote (three demos, one on Windows CE, Windows XP Embedded,
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