Windows CE and the Future of Embedded Devices
Want to build your own Windows XP Embedded Kernel? Want to know the ridiculous amount of embedded devices that are expected to sell in 2010?
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26.12.2007 Microsoft Previews Windows CE 6 Operating System
Latest embedded software represents 10 years of industry-leading innovations.
In a packed hall of developers and industry partners at Microsoft Corp.?s annual Mobile & Embedded DevCon, the company announced the availability of a beta release of Windows CE 6, the next generation of its industry-leading, real-time software used to build customized operating systems for devices such as Internet Protocol (IP) set-top-boxes, Global Positioning System (GPS)-based devices, and industrial automation and medical devices.
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9.5.2006 Windows CE 6 Beta running in Virtual PC
The first Virtual PC lab is now tested/running (see the screen shot below) - I'm handing the lab over to MSDN today for testing and to release to the MSDN Virtual Labs web site.
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13.7.2006 Suggestions For Future Versions of Windows
The Windows Early Feedback program was created by Microsoft as a means of rounding up suggestions and feedback that may be considered for implementation in future iterations of the Windows operating system.
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11.11.2007 No Future for Windows XP SP3?
Make no mistake about it, June 30, 2008 is the beginning of the end for Windows XP, even with Service Pack 3 available for two months now, since May 6.
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13.6.2008 Windows XP SP3 - No Future
With Windows XP but four days away from the June 30 end-of-sales date, various scenarios are depicting the operating system as already dead.
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26.6.2008 The Future of Windows Is Manycore-Multicore
Microsoft has little say in the matter, as does the entire ecosystem of software developers that will have to step up their game and fall in line with the evolution of hardware, further and further into the territory of parallel computing.
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9.8.2008 The Future of Windows Live Mail Desktop
There hasn't been much news on Windows Live Mail desktop since 2006, with a minor update being released in February.
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13.3.2007 Bill Gates on Windows Past, Present, and Future
It's hard to believe that twenty years ago, Microsoft Windows was the underdog of the industry, now shipped on 95% of PC's worldwide PC Magazine poses the question, Whats beyond Vista? to Bill Gates.
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Microsoft gets an earful on what users want in future Windows releases
In December 2006, Microsoft requested feedback from a select group of invitees regarding what they would like to see fixed, changed and/or added to future Windows builds.
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12.7.2007 Forget about Vista – Onward to Future Versions of Windows...
In November 2006 and in January 2007, Windows Vista came to plug the gap that stretched all the way back to the late 2001 release of Windows XP.
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12.11.2007 Windows Media Center Survey for Possible Future Beta Testers
Microsoft is looking for people committed and interested in beta testing a future version of Windows Media Center.
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19.4.2007 Microsoft exec: Future versions of Windows to be fundamentally redesigned
Microsoft executive Ty Carlson spoke about the future of Windows recently during a panel discussion at the Future in Review 2007 conference held in San Diego, California.
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30.5.2007 The future of Xbox Live
Aaron Greenberg, responsible for the Xbox Live Marketplace content, was interviewed in a podcast of VGM Daily, and some interesting news surfaced:
First of all, the Xbox 360 is getting a "Virtual console" feature similar to what Nintendo planned for the Revolution, meaning older games (from other platforms) will be downloadable for a small price. The service will be officially announced at E3.
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14.4.2006 Perfect wife from future :)
Ballmer: Advertising Is the Future
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer wants to grab the worldwide advertising opportunity by the horns. It's one big steer to bring to the ground.
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14.11.2007 DirectX 10 & the Future of Gaming
How is DirectX 10 and its Unified Architecture going to benefit gamers? What is the gamer going to need to take and advantage of it? We recently sat down with ATI and talked about DirectX 10 and how their next generation desktop GPU will benefit.
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2.5.2006 Microsoft Home of the future v2.0
In a teenager's bedroom of the future, the interactive wallpaper will combine images of friends, favorite bands and places to create something akin to an online MySpace page in the real world.
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2.10.2006 Microsoft's future is in 64-bit
With the launch of Vista coming over the next few months, Microsoft has had little opportunity to talk about anything else.
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27.11.2006 Nokia CEO: The Internet is the Future
Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo told attendees of the Nokia World 2006 Conference that Internet functionality will be the driving force in the next phase of mobile phone industry growth.
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29.11.2006 Nokia’s N97: Is this your future netbook?
Nokia on Tuesday rolled out its N97, a high-end smartphone with a 3.5 inch touch display, QWERTY keyboard and social location software to allow people to use Facebook, MySpace and other sites on the go.
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2.12.2008 Take Two Talks Future Nintendo Collaboration
Following a financial report which showed a disappointing fourth quarter loss, double that incurred in 2007, and a overall yearly profit of 97 million dollars, mostly derived from sales of Grand Theft Auto IV, Take Two is looking at 2009 as a difficult year, mainly because Rockstar's franchise will only see the release of the Nintendo DS bound Chinatown Wars.
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18.12.2008 Microsoft Talks Up Visual Studio Future
Microsoft may have just shipped Visual Studio 2005, but the company is already starting to discuss its future plans for the development suite. Service Pack 1 is in the works for next summer, says Visual C# product manager Scott Wiltamuth, and Orcas -- the next VS release -- is being hashed out.
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Microsoft Powers Gas Pump of the Future
I saw this at CES last January. A gas pump that can fuel your car while loading up your iPod with MP3 files took top honors at Microsoft's Mobile & Embedded DevCon, now underway in Las Vegas.
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11.5.2006 Microsoft DirectX 10 & the Future of Gaming
Way back in the ?dark ages? of computer gaming there were few choices to achieve hardware acceleration for 3D. The two most notable methods were OpenGL and 3dfx? proprietary ?Glide.? Glide required the use of specific 3dfx hardware while OpenGL is an open platform that is supported by the community and can also run under a Linux operating environment. With Windows, Microsoft decided to capitalize on what they saw becoming the multimedia experience.
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7.5.2006 Gates sees a home server in your future
LAS VEGAS--Having helped get PCs into most American's homes, Bill Gates now wants people to bring in a server.
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8.1.2007 Microsoft Predicts The Future With Vista's SuperFetch
SuperFetch, a feature within Vista, predicts which applications are used when, then pre-loads them so that they're instantly available.
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22.1.2007 Ballmer hints at Microsoft's future in the 'cloud'
The software maker has been talking for some time about its plans to have a full-fledged platform that lives on its servers, as opposed to a set of discrete services, as is the case today.
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11.7.2007 Week in review: Microsoft's cloudy future
Microsoft plans to open up its underlying Internet services to developers as part of an ambitious makeover some refer to as "Cloud OS."
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14.7.2007 Analyst sees terabyte iPod in Apple's future
Apple could possibly create an iPod with 1 terabyte of storage, as well as a true ?iPhone? says one analyst. ?A terabyte iPod might sound crazy today, but we believe in five years a terabyte iPod will emerge as a portable home media center,? says Piper Jaffray senior analyst Gene Munster in an research report obtained by iLounge. ?We continue to believe that Apple will enter the mobile phone market. We would not expect an ?iPhone? to be launched for at least 12-18 months.?
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Windows CE and the Future of Embedded Devices
Want to build your own Windows XP Embedded Kernel? Want to know the ridiculous amount of embedded devices that are expected to sell in 2010? Satisfy
your curiosity! Here’s a short video of Channel 8’s Christian Liensberger interviewing Olivier Bloch (from Microsoft France’s
Embedded Devices group) at the TechEd's "Ask The Experts". Olivier talks a bit about what they’ve been working on for the last ten years
and shows a few very small devices that are capable of, and are, running Windows CE. He also talks about how students and hobbyists will be able to
get involved without having to worry about major costs (free SDK but the image will be time-bombed). If you’d like all the juicy details on the
future of Embedded Devices and Windows CE tools, you’ll have to wait until next week for the Microsoft announcement! For now, you'll have to
be satisfied with this 10 minute video, which just so happens to be packed with juicy details.
Read full story.....
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25.12.2007Windows Embedded CE 6.0 R2 Available
This download is an incremental release to Windows Embedded CE 6.0, if you do not have CE 6.0, you can also download an evaluation copy from
Microsoft® download center. Windows Embedded CE 6.0 R2 provides the latest breakthrough technologies that help Windows Embedded CE 6.0 device makers
efficiently build small footprint devices that connect to Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008.
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11.11.2007Windows CE 6 to be Completely Shared
This morning, during a
"virtual launch"
event, Microsoft announced it
will now be licensing the
entire source code of the new
version of what's now called
Windows Embedded CE to
purchasers of Windows Embedded
CE 6.0 for development into a
platform...
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02.11.2006Next Sidekick to run on NetBSD?
Fans of the Sidekick, who have fretted over its fate since the purchase of manufacturer Danger, Inc. by Microsoft, apparently don't have Windows CE
in their favorite handset's future. Instead, Microsoft's looking for... NetBSD programmers?..
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04.02.2009Microsoft 'Chelan': A new Windows Embedded platform takes shape
It's easy to forget as Microsoft wants you to that
the Windows Mobile
operating system is built on top of an embedded Windows CE core.
Windows Mobile 6.5 seemingly is built on a
customized version of Windows Embedded CE 5.X.
Windows Mobile 7 is likely to be built on the Embedded CE 6.X platform, I’d wager. (I’m hedging because don’t know either of these
things for a fact, as Microsoft hasn’t answered my questions about this.)
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14.05.2009Nvidia: For smartbooks, Windows CE beats Android
Despite the hype surrounding Google Inc.'s Android operating system, Nvidia Inc. sees more immediate promise in Microsoft Corp.'s Windows CE for
ARM-based netbooks.
Mike Rayfield, general manager for Nvidia's mobile business unit, said Nvidia preferred Microsoft's Windows
CE over Android because of CE's maturity. He said Android currently has a rough user interface.
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19.06.2009Qt release supports Windows CE targets
Trolltech has started shipping a preview version of Qt that supports Windows CE as a build target. The Qt toolkit allows desktop applications built on
Qt to be recompiled for Windows CE with minimal changes, according to the company.
Qt is an application development framework intended to let
developers compile binaries for various platforms -- Windows, Mac, Linux, and now Windows CE -- from a single C++ code base. Its API (application
programming interface) comprises some 400 C++ class libraries, and is consistent across all supported platforms, Trolltech says.
<...> Pre-release downloads of Qt 4.4 are available on Trolltech's website,
here . A link for the latest technical preview of
Qt for Windows CE had not been provided at the time of writing, but more information should be available from the company's website,
here . Additionally, a five-minute "screencast" demo may
yet be available
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26.02.2008Flash-Based Ultraportable Runs Windows CE
Another new ultramobile.
What's different this time?
It runs Windows CE instead of
Vista or XP. This means (a) it
will be cheap, (b) the
batteries will last longer and
(c) the makers have sat down
and thought about how
ultramobile PCs are actually
used, instead of how the
Origami marketers would like
them to be used.
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15.06.2007Windows Embedded CE 6.0 Gets a 200% Boost with Datalight Software
Datalight, Inc. today
announced support for the
Microsoft Windows Embedded CE
6.0 platform within its
patented data management
software. Datalight Reliance
and FlashFX Pro can double
performance on Windows
Embedded CE 6.0 when
implemented together.
As embedded device
memory requirements grow more
complex, the case for
professional data management
software becomes more
compelling. Datalight FlashFX
Pro is a flash media manager
that offers drop-in support
for over 200 different flash
parts. Reliance is a file
system that gives developers
control over performance
without risking data
corruption. When used
together, Reliance and FlashFX
Pro create a seamless flash
file system that vastly
outperforms native and "home
grown" solutions, with
performance increases for some
operations of over 200%.
FlashFX Pro
is ideally suited for projects
where performance cannot be
sacrificed. Test results have
shown that when using FlashFX
Pro in a Windows Embedded CE
6.0 environment, write
performance on NAND flash can
be increased by more than
200%, while read performance
improves by at least 20%...
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08.08.2007Microsoft Delivers New Capabilities for Windows Embedded CE
Today at Embedded Technology 2007, Microsoft Corp. announced the release of its Windows Embedded CE 6.0 R2 offering, designed for developers and
device-makers wanting to quickly build smart, connected, hard real-time commercial and consumer electronics devices.
With new
features, including the Web Services on Devices API, voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) telephony capabilities and thin-client technology
enhancements, Windows Embedded CE 6.0 R2 enables devices to seamlessly connect to computers running Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 as well as
other devices. In conjunction with this announcement, Microsoft also announced the launch of its community-focused initiative, code-named śSPARK,ť a
joint offering between Microsoft and select hardware vendors. The program is designed to bring the benefits of embedded development on Windows
Embedded CE 6.0 and Visual Studio 2005 to hobbyist developers and the academic community.
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14.11.2007Portable development platform runs Windows CE
Future X Technology of Taiwan has announced a compact development platform based on Freescale Semiconductor's i.MX21 system-on-chip (SoC). Presently
known only as the "Freescale i.MX21 3.5-inch TFT handheld," the device allows creation of portable devices that run Windows CE, according to the
company.
The i.MX21, targeted at mobile wireless applications by Freescale, is based on an ARM926EJ-S core with 16 KB of I-cache
and 16 KB of D-cache, clocked at either 266MHz or 350MHz. It incorporates a 16/18-bit color LCD controller with resolution up to 800 x 600 pixels.
Video playback capabilities include support for H.263 and MPEG-4 codecs, with CIF (352 x 288) resolution at up to 30 fps.
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04.01.2008Intel unveils Canmore 1080p system-on-chip for CE devices
Intel just took the official wraps off their Canmore HDTV system on chip described as a "CE system and an Internet system." Available in the second
half of 2008, it will feature a powerful PC-class processor core with "leading edge" A/V processing that can plan 1080p video and serve up 3-D
graphics with 7.1 surround sound. Expect to see them in future set-top boxes, media players, and TVs.
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08.01.2008CES Trend #9: Will CE vendors start steering clear of DRM?
Our countdown to next week's CES centers now on whether the CE industry will at last reach a solution to the DRM conundrum. The new trend toward
DRM-free music doesn't appear to be shaking the Blu-ray and HD DVD folks, who continue to cling to proprietary disk formats. Will consumers seek a
video alternative, and might it come from China?..
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31.12.2007Microsoft Updates Windows for Robots
Microsoft said Monday that it
had released a improved
version of its Robotics Studio
platform, adding support for
Windows Embedded CE 6.0 and
Windows Mobile, as well as
programming improvements...
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10.07.2007Intel to ship CE 3100 CPU to Samsung and Toshiba
Anticipating strong demand for more Internet connectivity in consumer electronics devices, Intel will soon start shipping its CE 3100 system-on-chip
(SoC), designed for low-power, multimedia-rich connected devices, to Samsung Electronics and Toshiba in September, according to industry sources.
Other leading consumer electronics makers are also expected to employ the CE 3100 CPU in their products, they added.
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04.09.2008US-CERT Warns of Microsoft Windows CE Trojan
The WinCE/InfoJack Trojan hijacks the infected device's serial number, operating system and other information and uploads it to an
attacker-controlled Web site. The U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team has raised an alert for an in-the-wild malware attack against Microsoft
Windows CE powered mobile devices. According to the US-CERT warning, the Trojan horse program is capable of disabling Windows Mobile application
installation security.
The Trojan, dubbed WinCE/InfoJack by anti-virus vendor McAfee, has been programmed to hijack the infected
device's serial number, operating system and other information and upload it to a Web site controlled by the attacker. "It also leaves the
infected mobile device vulnerable by allowing silent installation of malware. The Trojan modifies the infected device's security setting to allow
unsigned applications to be installed without a warning," McAfee said in a post on its Avert Labs blog.
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27.02.2008Toshiba announces 160 GB 1.8" CE-ATA hard drive
Coinciding with the release of a 160 GB iPod, Toshiba today announced a 160 GB 1.8" hard drive, which will be available with a CE-ATA interface later
this year.
Toshiba's new MK-series 160 GB drive is the highest-capacity drive announced in the 1.8" segment so far, but is also
the firm's first hard drive to integrate a CE-ATA interface, which has been developed for consumer electronics applications.
The
MK series comes in two versions, as a PATA 1-platter 80 GB versions as well as the CE-ATA 2-platter 160 GB model. The storage density is 228 Gb/square
inch in either case. The PATA model is rated at a slightly higher performance (66 MB/s data transfer rate) than the CE-ATA version (52 MB/s), but the
CE-ATA model is promised to be more power efficient (0.002 watt/GB compared to 0.004 watt/GB in the PATA version “ which means that both drives are
rated at the same power consumption overall).
The 160 GB "MK1626GCB" is also slightly higher at 8 mm, as compared to the 5 mm
height of the 80 GB "MK8022GAA", which is interestingly about the same difference that is listed by Apple for the new iPod Classic models.
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06.09.2007Windows CE-based PMP outputs HD video
Korean company Maxian has introduced a personal media player (PMP) that features Windows CE 5.0 and a 4.3-inch touchscreen display. The E900T also
includes a receiver for terrestrial digital multimedia broadcasting (T-DMB) television broadcasts, and optional GPS functionality, according to the
company.
The E900T comes with a choice of either 30GB or 60GB hard drives. Its case -- white on the 30GB unit, blue/black on the
60GB device -- incorporates stereo speakers, four function keys and a mini joystick.
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03.01.2008Windows may be coming to your shopping cart this year
What hopes to be the final form of an innovative new grocery shopping aid device using Windows CE will go into beta this spring, with a possible
nationwide rollout by the end of the year...
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15.01.2008Mini-laptop runs Windows CE
U.K. retailer Robert Dyas has announced a mini-laptop of its own, based on Windows CE 5.0. The "Cuol Book" features a 7-inch screen, 512MB of RAM,
and 1GB of flash storage, plus three USB ports, WiFi, and five hours of battery life, the company says.
The Cuol Book seems an
unlikely offering from Robert Dyas, a company that has existed for more than 100 years as a "home and garden specialist." Alerted to the device, no
doubt Chinese-sourced, by a helpful reader, we've attempted to trace other versions -- with no luck so far.
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