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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 10:03 AM

Microsoft, LG-Nortel Sign MoU to Develop and Market Windows CE based IP Phones

Interesting news from the LG-Nortel web site - Microsoft and LG-Nortel announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for broad range collaboration in Voice over IP (VoIP), including Windows CE-based IP terminals and a new Windows CE 6.0
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Thursday, July 13, 2006 9:57 AM

LSP (Layered Service Providers) sample for Windows CE - CodePlex Community Project.

The number of Windows CE community projects is growing - over the last couple of days a Phidgets and LSP sample have bee added to the community projects. Expect to see some additional projects being added shortly. - 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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Wednesday, July 12, 2006 1:32 PM

Microsoft: Institute for Personal Robots in Education (IPRE)

Check out the following Microsoft/Robotics/Academia press release, and the second Microsoft Robotics announcement <snip> Microsoft Corp. today announced the creation of the Institute for Personal Robots in Education (IPRE) in partnership with the
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Tuesday, July 11, 2006 10:48 PM

Status of First Windows CE 6 Virtual Lab.

You will be pleased to know that I've finished building the first (of several) Virtual Labs for Windows CE 6 - the first lab is going to be based on the MEDC 2006 Windows CE 6 Beta drop and will cover configuring a Windows CE 6 operating system, adding
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Monday, July 10, 2006 10:23 PM

Windows CE 6 and Windows Mobile Virtual Labs

I'm working on a number of Windows CE 6 Virtual Labs - if you want to see what the experience is like you might want to check out some Windows Mobile 5.0 Virtual Labs I know that Loke Uei is working on some more Windows Mobile labs as we speak
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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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Friday, July 07, 2006 10:52 AM

x86 & ARM Phidgets driver/sample available on CodePlex

Phidgets have released an x86 and ARM driver and sample applications for Windows CE 5.0 - here's a link to the CodePlex Phidgets workspace - Mike
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Thursday, July 06, 2006 8:38 AM

Microsoft MES has been selected as the official ECU supplier to the FIA Formula One World Championship in 2008, 2009 and 2010

This extract from SpeedTv.com - Bridgestone and Microsoft have been granted exclusive contracts to be the sole suppliers, of tires and ECUs respectively, of Formula 1 beginning in 2008. The move to a single tire supplier and standardized ECUs (Electronic
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Wednesday, July 05, 2006 7:09 PM

WE-DIG July 2006 - Managed Development

This evenings WE-DIG session is covering some of the updates to the .NET Compact Framework v2.0 SP1 - There are a ton of useful updates, including headless support for embedded devices! - more information on the update to v2.0 sp1 can be found on the
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Monday, July 03, 2006 6:44 PM

Monitoring Critical Processes on Windows CE

As an update to the "Flying with Unreliable Penguins" post I thought it would be useful to point you at the WatchDogTimer APIs on Windows CE - Watchdog timers are used to make sure critical processes are running as expected. Typically, every critical
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Friday, June 30, 2006 3:17 PM

WE-DIG Meeting, July 5th - Managed Code and XNA

Date: Wednesday July 5, 2006 Time: 6:30 - 9:00pm   At: Bldg 117, Chinook, Microsoft Campus, Redmond, WA   ===== Theme: Update on Managed Code =====   This past spring, Microsoft announced XNA - a managed code framework for game developers
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Friday, June 30, 2006 10:36 AM

Smart Devices Remote Tools Framework Powertoy Released

The Smart Devices Remote Tools Framework is a powertoy for use by mobile and embedded system developers building on the Microsoft Windows CE platform. The package contains a pre-built host and device side components (for ARM devices only), a set of sample
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Monday, June 26, 2006 5:20 PM

MEDC Malaysia

Today, June 27th is MEDC Malaysia - the keynote speaker is Tony Mestres, Senior Director in the Mobile and Embedded Devices Group in Redmond (see below). As we've been traveling around the world we've been purchasing various local items for the WEPOS
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