Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5 and Kinect for Windows v1.6 Templates Are Now on ECE

The following feature updates are now available on ECE:

• Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5 template and redistributable installer for Windows Embedded 7 SP1.
• Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5 redistributable installer for Windows Embedded POSReady 7. 
• Microsoft Kinect for Windows v1.6 template for Windows Embedded 7 SP1.

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Microsoft Kinect for Windows v1.6 template allows for the installation of Kinect for Windows Runtime v1.6 on Windows Embedded Standard 7 SP1.  Highlights of new features supported in v1.6 runtime are:

• .NET Framework 4.5 support
• Accelerometer Data APIs - sensor's accelerometer is now exposed in the API
• Extended Depth Data Is Now Available - provides details beyond 4 meters
• Color Camera Setting APIs - Camera Settings can now be optimized to your environment
• More Control over Decoding- Bayer to RGB conversions on CPU or GPU
• German Language Pack for Speech Recognition
• Infrared Emitter Control API - new API for turning the infrared emitter off.
• Infrared Stream Is Now Exposed in the API

Project Information URL: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windows-embedded/archive/2013/01/03/microsoft-net-framework-4-5-and-kinect-for-windows-v1-6-templates-are-now-on-ece.aspx

Contact Information:

• Blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windows-embedded
• Twitter: @MSFTWEB

If you’re not aware of Ford SYNC, it’s Ford’s next generation in car entertainment and communication system, which includes in car 3G Wi-Fi (via USB dongle or smartphone tether via Bluetooth). It’s been available in the US for some time and now looks to be heading to Europe. 

It’s controlled via an 8” colour display that’s a world away from your current in-dash display, and is used to manage climate controls, mobile phone calls and contacts, satellite navigation and in car entertainment. You’ll also find a web browser with tabbed page navigation, Adobe Flash support and bookmarks.

With regard to music, you can play music from CDs (but who still does that, right?), smartphones, MP3 players and USB drives attached to one of two ports in the centre console. You’ll be able to hit up the cloud courtesy of a link to Spotify, as well as play video from YouTube and BBC iPlayer (when the car is stationary, of course).

Many of the in car controls are voice activated (even current Fords have an amazing voice recognition system) and according to Crave, you’ll be able to have text messages read out to you whilst on the move, with abbreviations and emoticons read out to you – “gf” becomes girlfriend and is translated as “happy smiley”.

The new Ford Focus with SYNC is expected to land in April next year. 

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Windows Embedded is the general term for all Windows embedded products including Windows Embedded Standard, Windows Embedded Compact (aka CE), Windows Embedded Server, Windows Embedded Enterprise.

For the Windows Embedded Standard product line, product examples are Windows XP Embedded (aka XPe), Windows Embedded Standard 2009, Windows Embedded Standard 2011, Windows Embedded POSReady 2009.

We figured it would be a good idea to meet some of the developers who write Windows Embedded Standard to get a better understanding of, well, exactly what it is and where it is going. Here, we meet and chat with Windows Embedded Standard developers Oren Winter, Jon Parati, Mike Moini and Milong Sabandith. What are the key new features in Windows Embedded Standard 2011? What is Windows Embedded Standard 2011, exactly? What's Windows Embedded CE, again? How is Windows Embedded related to Windows proper? Windows Embedded Standard 2011 is built from the same sources that make up Windows 7? What's different between the two and why? How is Windows Embedded Standard able to be so modular? What's the developer story for Windows Embedded Standard 2011? And more. Tune in. Classic Channel 9.