Windows Embedded Compact 7 CTP

Steve Gugenheimer - Corporate Vice President OEM Division Microsoft - announced the next version of Windows Embedded Compact 7 (formerly known as Windows Embedded CE) during his keynote yesterday at Computex in Taipei.

In addition Microsoft also announced the Windows Embedded Compact 7 Community Technology Preview (CTP) which can be downloaded from Microsofts Connect Site.

Although you cannot ship any devices using the CTP version of Compact 7 you most certainly can start evaluating the operating system and all the new stuff which will be shipping with Compact 7, hopefully sometime this year.

So login to Microsofts Connect Site with your Live ID and start downloading those bits today - over the neyt couple of weeks and months we will of course post information around the Windows Embedded Compact 7 CTP - so stay tuned!

Also get yourselfs to TechED US where you can meet up with Olivier Bloch, Dion Hutchings and our Jochen Dieckfoß - and get more information on tomorrows innovations.

So long and thanks for all the fish!