Wednesday 23 November 2011

SPS / IPC / DRIVES 2011

Hello and welcome to SPS 2011 in Nürnberg. It’s not too late to visit us at the Microsoft booth. The SPS 2011 will continue until Thursday 24th November 2011. So make sure you stop by in hall 7A booth 150.

If you are around tomorrow, Thursday, November 24th at 2pm, make sure you visit my half an hour talk on Windows Embedded Compact 7 driver development at the VDMA Forum in hall 4A booth 541!

In the meantime here are some impressions from this year’s SPS – enjoy!






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Tuesday 15 November 2011

Windows Embedded Roadmap 2011 announced!

Hi folks,

I promised you some very interesting news in my Windows Embedded Channel & Partner Summit 2011 post and I can finally share them with you:

Yesterday Microsoft presented a long overdue Windows Embedded roadmap (find the official press release here).

The roadmap focuses on next generation embedded devices known as Intelligent Systems that extend cloud services and enterprise software to specialized devices. Basically an Intelligent System consist of
1. Thin client devices collecting data in the field
2. Connected to any number of servers running intelligent back-end application(s) analyzing and computing the collected data. Upon completion of data analysis instructing the thin client(s) what to do in this specific situation
3. Thru continuous collection of data by the thin client(s) (over years) the Intelligent System gets better and better results

This scenario shows that data and insights become the fundamental benefits.

Microsoft promises a One Platform approach to best support Intelligent Systems:

Windows Embedded Standard v. Next:
- Based on Windows 8 technologies
- Componentize able version of Windows 8
- Supports x86, x64 and ARM SoC
- Natural User Interface (NUI): touch, gesture, speech, …
- Community Technology Preview (CTP): first quarter 2012
- RTM: 3 quarters after Windows 8

Windows Embedded Enterprise v. Next:
- Based on Windows 8 technolgies
- Supports x86, x64 only
- NUI
- RTM: 1 quarter after Windows 8

Windows Embedded Compact v. Next:
- Still based on CE core: real-time, small footprint
- Smart Device support for native application development support in Visual Studio 2010 and Visual Studio v. Next
- Unfortunately no mentions of future of managed application support as well as future of .NET Compact Framework
- File system improvements to handle generated and collected data
- Kernel improvements
- RTM: 2nd half 2012

Windows Embedded Handheld, Windows Embedded Automotive, Windows Embedded POSReady v. Next:
- Microsoft is investing in the future of these products

With this roadmap, Microsoft does show their long-term commitment in the embedded market so go ahead and start you Windows Embedded project with a quiet conscience!

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Thursday 3 November 2011

SPS/IPC/DRIVES 2011 in Nürnberg/Germany November 22nd to 24th 2011 – Save the Date

Hi folks,

EB will have a Partner Pod on the Windows Embedded booth in hall 7A, booth 150 on the SPS/IPC/DRIVES taking place form November 22nd to 24th in Nürnberg. Register here for your free ticket!



There will be 6 free Windows Embedded Hands-On Labs, two of which I will co-host with Adrian Zalevski from Arrow:

Tuesday, November 22nd, 10:00-12:00: Next generation User Experience (UX) with Silverlight for Windows Embedded under Windows Embedded Compact 7 (register here).

Tuesday, November 22nd, 14:00-16:00: Next generation User Experience (UX) with Silverlight for Windows Embedded under Windows Embedded Compact 7 (register here).

Other Hands-On Laps are:

Wednesday, November 23rd, 10:00-12:00: Roadmap and news from Microsoft’s latest operating systems with product presentation (register here).

Wednesday, November 23rd, 14:00-16:00: Introduction to Windows Embedded Standard 7 SP1 (register here).

Thursday, November 24th, 10:00-12:00: Introduction to Windows Embedded Compact 7 (register here).

Thursday, November 24th, 14:00-16:00: Roadmap and news from Microsoft’s latest operating systems with product presentation (register here).

You can also register for the free Hands-On Labs on site at the Windows Embedded booth. Just be there 5 min prior to the Hands-On Lab and we will guide you to your session. If you are late, don’t worry, we will lead you to the session every 5 minutes until 10 minutes after the session has started.

You can also attend my talk:

Thursday, November 24th, 14:00-14:20, booth 4A – 541: Windows Embedded Compact 7 – Device Driver Development Best Practices.

I am looking forward to meet you at SPS/IPC/DRIVES!

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