Mike Hall - Windows CE and Windows Embedded Lab Tour

Posted By: The Channel 9 Team | Jun 22nd, 2004 @ 3:57 PM | 38,174 Views | 16 Comments
Holy cow! Look at all these devices. Across the hall from Mike Hall's office is the Windows CE device lab. Mike, Technical Product Manager on the Windows CE team, gives us a 10-minute tour of the devices which range from retail point of sale devices, to exercise bikes, to even sewing machines.

What does all this have to do with anything? Well, tomorrow he's going to show how to build a new operating system for one of these devices.
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#Jun 22nd, 2004 @ 4:36 PM
ericch1
ericch1
NX-01, powered by .NET?
Wow, great video as always! I can't wait to get my own CE sewing machine to make my own T-shirts logos! Wink Hopefully it will be less expensive than that picture frame... ouch!
#Jun 22nd, 2004 @ 11:01 PM
Brocky
Brocky
Yes its realy me
I would like to have one of thees bikes!
How much will it cost? And will it be sold
in Germany?
I need more info about this bike!
#Jun 23rd, 2004 @ 2:16 AM
TheAsher
TheAsher
Just A Guy

With regard to Mike’s comment that people tend think that WinCE is all about PDAs & SmartPhones, that this tendency is IMHO encouraged by Microsoft, which gives a lot of justified hype to those types of devices. Just to be clear, I think that they are great pieces of technology and IMHO have a much better user & developer story to offer when compared to the competition.

 

Since the.NET CF doesn’t offer a componentization capability, severely limiting the types of application that it can be used for, or in other words limiting the types of applications that it can be used develop to devices of a gadget like nature….. Not that there is anything wrong with that.

 

Usually, when Microsoft talks about developing for WinCE they in almost all of the cases talk about developing using .NET CF and I think that the result of that is the tendency of people to associate WinCE with ‘gadget’ like devices.

 

.Asher.

#Jun 23rd, 2004 @ 8:20 AM
juliankay
juliankay
Good stuff!

I'm a Windows Embedded developer, and you hear so many people think that Pocket PC /is/ Windows CE. Now I have something to show them to prove it! Hehe

Thanks Smiley
#Jun 23rd, 2004 @ 8:58 AM
mikehall
mikehall
Mike
Don't forget the Citizen Engineer forum on Channel 9 - we're giving you the steps needed to build your own Windows CE based Picture Frame!

- Mike
#Jun 23rd, 2004 @ 9:02 AM
tLat
tLat

Channel 9 at its best! Great video guys.
Thanks.

#Jun 23rd, 2004 @ 9:04 AM
mikehall
mikehall
Mike
As far as "Windows CE == Pocket PC", the Windows Mobile team changed the way Pocket PC and Smartphone devices were named and 'marked' - in some of the older devices (Handheld PC and Palm-Sized PC [remember those?]) the devices were marked as "Powered by Windows CE", if you look on the newer Pocket PC and Smartphone devices the new logo is "Microsoft Windows Powered", totally removing any reference to Windows CE.

- Mike
#Jun 23rd, 2004 @ 3:42 PM
msemack
msemack
Embedded Systems Guy
Darn, I was hoping you'd have at least one PC/104 board there. Sad

Although, I must say this is probably one of the best videos I've seen on Channel 9.  This relates more to my line of work.  I wish there were more videos about things like XPe/WinCE and driver development.  I would love to see a video on the new Windows Driver Framework.
#Jun 23rd, 2004 @ 8:14 PM
mikehall
mikehall
Mike
What a great idea ! - go ahead and post a list of videos you would like to see - I'd also like to get more Embedded content out there...

Bring it on...

- Mike
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