When I first started writing embedded software, the environments that I found to be the most efficient and easiest to use were only available on Microsoft Windows. In fact, it wasn’t uncommon for ...

Microsoft Corp. announced the release of its Windows Embedded CE 6.0 R2 offering, designed for developers and device-makers wanting to quickly build smart, connected, hard real-time commercial and ...

Microsoft is trying to foster more interest in embedded software, encouraging amateur developers to experiment with programmable components in devices from toasters to televisions. The "Spark Your ...

Windows also gives embedded-device designers access to a variety of third-party applications to simplify software development. For example, you can purchase off-the-shelf auxiliary functions, such as ...

Back in 2003 when we all had travel budgets and that sort of thing, Microsoft would fly journalists out to locations like Brazil to cover the finals of its student developer competition which it calls ...

Windows Embedded (which includes Windows Embedded CE and Windows XP Embedded) is the name given to the variations of Microsoft's Windows operating system that are built to run on minimalist computers ...

The service pack incorporates Windows XP SP1, including the .Net Framework and changes to the user interface as required by the company's antitrust settlement with the government. The SP1, announced ...

Rounding out its line of recent Windows 8 releases, Microsoft has posted a community technology preview of the next Windows OS for embedded systems, Windows Embedded Standard 8. The release closely ...

Interview: Kevin Dallas discusses Microsoft's strategies for smartbooks and other devices, such as the company's Haiku concept device Microsoft plans to use Windows Embedded to combat rival operating ...