Windows Mobile

Cell phones are starting to become really powerful computing devices. They are getting high res cameras, GPS's, better screens, more APIs, and even hard drives. To find out what's the latest we visited the Windows Mobile group and found Ford Davidson  (he's a product…

On the Channel 9 team we get a ton of email. It's overwhelming at times, actually. So, we were very interested when Eric Horvitz (Microsoft's most prolific inventor) said "I have something that can help."That something is the Outlook Mobile Manager. It prioritizes your messages and makes…

Chris Gray, a developer in the Windows Server team (yes, we've seen Chris before in the Windows CE videos) shows how to use managed code running on a Windows Mobile device to upload photo's from a Pocket PC to a home server - the demo shows the back end 'server' code and the code running on the…

Anil Dhawan, a Program Manager in the Windows Mobile group, provides a look at Bluetooth programming on Windows Mobile devices and shows remote control of PowerPoint from a Smartphone using Bluetooth. Mike Hall is the interviewer and camera guy.

While we were at the Topcoder contest last month handing out Nine Guys we met Alex Kipman (he is lead program manager on MS Build). He has a cool demo of using Visual Studio to build a system for a variety of mobile devices. Of course the demo was done in a hotel lobby of a Silicon Valley hotel.…

Joe Morris, lead program manager on the Windows XP Embedded team, demonstrates the security enhancements made for developers in Windows XP Embedded.

Joe Morris, lead program manager, on Windows XP Embedded has a chat with Mike Hall about Windows embedded about what's involved in developing for XP embedded. If you're interested, take a listen, or head over to the MSDN Embedded Developer Center.

"What about those buttons on the Tablet PC?" That got Bert Keely to talk about a future input device he helped design that might show up on Tablet PCs. (Bert is one of the visionaries behind the Tablet PC's development). That led Bert to talk about how the Tablet PC might work…

Mike Hall took his camcorder over to the mobile devices team and met with Constanze Roman, a programming writer. They talk about what working as a documentation writer is like.

VOIP to SOIP. That makes us laugh. But, how the telephone is changing is no laughing matter. Combining video, voice, and data are changing the way we work. Balz Wyss, product manager for Windows Mobile, gives us a short primer on the trends he's seeing in the voice over IP market. We're seeing…