New Books

Two new books are available for the Windows Embedded CE 6.0 operating system

• Professional Microsoft Windows Embedded CE 6.0 from Samuel Phung

• Windows® Embedded CE 6.0 Fundamentals from Stanislav Pavlov and Pavel Belevsky

Another FREE companion book for this technology is the Microsoft Certification for Windows Embedded CE 6.0 Exam Preparation Kit, from Nicolas Besson, Rajesh Kakde and Ray Marcilla from Adeneo.

- Nicolas

Hardware runnning Windows CE ?

From the Microsoft website you can find the referenced hardwares running Windows CE.

Have a look to this list here.
- Nicolas

Search Engine for Windows CE

Looking for a Windows CE API definition, but want to get only the one for this specific OS... try the Live Search engine for Windows Embedded CE 6.0.

Go there.

[Note] Thanks to Pierre for this link.
- Nicolas

An alternative solution to web browsing for Windows Mobile

The Mozilla Labs has posted a video of an alternative solution to web browsing, a direct competitor to the Pocket Internet Explorer. The Firefox browser for Windows Mobile, with current project codename Fennec.

See the video here
- Nicolas

Microsoft North America Awards 2008

Microsoft announced during the TechEd in Orlando, FL the list of the Windows Embedded Partner Excellence Awards for North and South America.

Awards were listed by Microsoft as follows:

• Distributor -- Bsquare, "for continuing to raise the bar on providing Microsoft customers with world-class professional services and logistics capabilities for connected devices"

• Independent Hardware Vendor -- Phytec, "for driving adoption of Windows Embedded CE by providing single board computers and board support packages"

• Portable Navigation Device Partner -- Intrinsyc, "for the impact it has had with its strategic OEM design engagements"

• Silicon Vendor -- RMI, "for its innovative work in providing highly integrated system-on-chip modules"

• Systems Integrator -- Bsquare, "for its leadership role in providing a broad range of engineering services for Windows Embedded CE and Windows XP Embedded"

• Training Partner -- Adeneo, "for its leadership in providing a variety of innovative training deliverables"

• WEPOS (Windows Embedded for Point of Service) OEM -- NCR, "for its commitment to leading how the world connects, interacts, and transacts"

• WEPOS partner -- Odyssey Software, "for delivering innovative device management solutions to key strategic retail customers"

• Windows Embedded CE OEM -- Magellan, "for its commitment to creating devices"

• Windows XP Embedded OEM -- HP, "for its continued leadership in the thin-client space"

- Nicolas

Windows Embedded CE book

A good way to learn about Windows Embedded CE 6.0 is by reading the training book associated to the Microsoft Certification for Windows Embedded CE 6.0 Exam.
Enjoy the reading here.

- Nicolas

Who want to be an MCP II

As discussed in a previous post, Microsoft launches a certification program for Windows Embedded CE 6.0. This MCP Exam is officially launched and to be ready to pass the exam, Microsoft provides a FREE Training Kit that review all the subjects covered by the test. The Training Kit is a FREE 6 Chapters electronic book available for download. For now only Chapter 1 and 3 are ready for download but others will follow in the next days.

• Chapter 01: Customizing the Operating System Design


• Chapter 02: Building and Deploying the Runtime Image


• Chapter 03: Performing System Programming


• Chapter 04: Debugging and Testing the System


• Chapter 05: Customizing a Board Support Package


• Chapter 06: Developing Device Drivers

The authors, Nicolas Besson, Ray Marcilla and Rajesh Kakde have a deep experience in the development of BSP, drivers and runtime images, and provide tips to improve your skill before passing this exam.

If you are not a English native reader, this book will be translated in 5 additional languages in the next weeks and will be also accessible for download for FREE.

I hope that you will enjoy reading this book as much as I had writing it.

For the exam details and download follow the link .

- Nicolas