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Microsoft Announces New Challenge for Embedded Enthusiasts

Redmond-based software company Microsoft announced on Tuesday the RTM of new Windows Embedded solutions, including Windows Embedded CE 6.0 R3 and Windows 7 technologies for specialized devices (Windows 7 Professional, Windows 7 Ultimate and Windows Server 2008 R2 for Embedded Systems), but also announced the launch o...

23 September 2009
12:08 GMT

Microsoft RTMs Windows 7 Technologies for Specialized Devices

One of the latest solutions that came from Redmond-based Microsoft includes Windows 7 technologies for OEMs of specialized devices, which the software giant made available through the RTM of new Windows Embedded Enterprise and Windows Embedded Server platforms. The company announced the release at the Embedded System...

23 September 2009
08:27 GMT

Windows Embedded CE 6.0 R3 Gets a Silverlight Makeover

Microsoft Corp. announced on Tuesday the release to manufacturing (RTM) of Windows Embedded CE 6.0 R3, enhanced with Microsoft Silverlight, which should provide a rich application experience through Silverlight for Windows Embedded user interface (UI) framework. The new release is expected to enable designers and dev...

23 September 2009
02:16 GMT

Download New Windows 7-Based Release: Windows Embedded Standard 2011

While Windows 7 client and Windows Server 2008 R2 have been released to manufacturing for over a month now, the journey of Microsoft’s latest Windows iteration continues. Windows 7 is by no means limited to clients and servers, and an illustrative example of this is codename Quebec. On September 1st, 2009, the ...

1 September 2009
10:30 GMT

Coca-Cola Freestyle Powered by Windows Embedded

The Coca-Cola Company has debuted testing of a new proprietary, software-driven fountain dispenser in the United States, dubbed Coca-Cola Freestyle. Bsquare Corporation, the lead systems integrator working on the project, and a Microsoft Gold Partner, has built Windows Embedded into the fountain dispenser. More speci...

21 July 2009
05:19 GMT

Windows Can Be Used to Balance a Stick

Yes, among its countless utilizations the Windows operating system can also be used to balance sticks. While it might sound trivial, this is not the case. Stick balancing, the demonstration that comes from Beckhoff in the video embedded at the bottom of this article, is proof that Windows is a Hard Real-Time Embedded...

27 April 2009
06:46 GMT

The Smart Pill Wins SPARKs Will Fly Developer Contest

Through the SPARKs Will Fly contest, Microsoft invited developers to imagine the “home of the future” with the Windows Embedded operating system at its heart. The Smart Pill was the winning project, out of the submissions entered by over 140 participants worldwide. Doug Conn, the author of The Smart Pill,...

6 April 2009
04:22 GMT

Visual Studio 2008 Professional Edition with MSDN Embedded

Microsoft will be unveiling today, March 31, 2009, a couple of new offerings focused on its lineup of embedded platforms. Both the Visual Studio 2008 Professional Edition with MSDN Embedded and the Windows Embedded Developer Update are scheduled to be announced at the Embedded Systems Conference (ESC) Silicon Valley ...

31 March 2009
10:52 GMT

Download the Latest Windows Platform from Microsoft

The latest Windows operating system is available for download as of June 16, 2008. And no, it's not a new release of Windows 7, nor the first taste of Windows 7 Server. In fact, it has nothing to do with the client and server products, or with Windows for mobile phones. It simply is a new release under the Windo...

16 June 2008
12:25 GMT

Windows Codename Quebec Will Be Vista-Based, Just like Windows 7

Windows 7 will not be the only Microsoft operating system that will use Windows Vista as its foundation. Sure enough, Microsoft officially confirmed that the next iteration of the Windows client will feature evolutions of the Vista kernel, as well as the graphics and audio subsystem and overall architecture, featurin...

6 June 2008
12:12 GMT

Windows Embedded SPARK

The Windows Embedded SPARK Your Imagination Program is essentially an extension of the code-named "SPARK" initiative introduced by Microsoft in November 2007. The SPARK program focused on Windows Embedded is now live, and hobbyist developers as well as members of the academic community have access to a $1,300 packag...

15 April 2008
13:00 GMT


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