On June 17. 2010 Microsoft announced their roadmap for the new and improved Microsoft Windows Embedded platform, suited for LOB (Line of Business) type of devices and applications.

One of the major changes from the earlier versions from a developer perspective is the upgrade from the Windows CE 5.x kernel to the 6.0 kernel, which now can handle more than 32,000 simultaneous processes. A huge improvement from the 32 processes the previous 5.x could handle. Each of the 32,000 processes has a upper limit of 2GB of virtual memory space, in 5.x you had 32MB…. Windows Embedded 7 will also support touch, gestures and Silverlight, something that improve the UI and UX capabilities immensely.

he full set of features for Windows Embedded can be found here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsembedded/ce/dd630616.aspx and “What’s new in CE 6.0″ can be found here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa924105.aspx

Windows Embedded will come in 6 base flavors and below  is a short description of each copied from http://www.microsoft.com/windowsembedded/en-us/products/default.mspx. Continue Reading

Windows Phone and Mobile developers are waiting for Microsoft to reveal the development environment for the new WPO7 Series platform. This will happen at the MIX 2010 conference in Las Vegas 14. – 17. March. Until then Microsoft employees find themselves “hunted down” for information and leaks on what to come.

Leaks are starting to spill out and wmpoweruser.com and engadget.com has released leaked documents on development guidelines and policies.

While reading this i can finally ”confirm”  that WPO7 Series is based on Windows CE 6. For us developers this is great news! Continue Reading

Psion netBook of Y2K

What’s now called a smartmobile, smartphone or pocket pc was once called a PDA – it was a Personal Digital Assistant and part from Psion’s first attempt in 1984, no one has had any real success until Apple launched the iPhone. As a curiosity in this day of buzzword technology – Psion released a netBook in March 2000. The first netbook, as they were first with the PDA? Exciting to see the result on the oncoming counter suit from Psion for Intel’s use of the term “netbook”

The early years Continue Reading