Windows Archive

Denso and Toshiba jointly develop world's first multi OS environment for car navigation systems, which supports µITRON and Microsoft Windows Automotive. Check our NMC site for more embedded news.

In this technical article titled "Scripting your Windows XP Embedded components", software consultant Hans de Vetten offers guidance on how to script Windows XP Embedded components. The article describes some steps that lead to more user-friendly components.

"Microsoft has been tarred as an illegal monopoly and a copycat. Its flagship Windows operating system gets knocked for its security holes and user-unfriendly quirks. So what is the world's dominant software company doing? Betting billions that its next generation of Windows, code-named Longhorn, will be the breakthrough technology that quiets its critics." Read the rest at CRN.

WinBeta has a few screenshots of Longhorn for 64-bit CPUs.

Microsoft's Tablet PC OS and a bunch of new tablets that support it are among the meager highlights of a Comdex politely described as "sedate" by some and "dead on arrival" by others. Read it at ZDNews.

One-year anniversary is marked by new hardware and software, growing customer adoption. New features include enhanced "ink to text" experience, integration in Microsoft Office 2003 and Office OneNote 2003 and new dev capabilities.

Competitors say the software giant need not cripple its popular Windows operating system to comply with European regulators' demands.

I am waiting for Longhorn. Thus, I was very interested in the new 4051 build. Here are my findings.

Is Microsoft's new version of Windows a radical innovation or a return to the company's winner-take-all software strategy from a decade ago? Read the report at News.com.

Get details on the over 140 sessions presented at PDC 2003, including slides and source code downloads for many of the sessions.

Longhorn is the .NET version of Windows which finalizes the replacement of the WIN32 API with a managed system, as well as a massive rethink as to the way developers write applications for Windows and consumers interact with their computers. Read the article at ZDNews.

Ian Griffiths posted to Longhorn user group detailing some of the kernel improvements that we can be expecting from Longhorn. Longhorn will feature CPU time reservation, and disk access scheduling. These changes are being added mainly for the benefit of the media services. MS wants movies and other media to play without interruptions. Additionally, GotDotNet is featuring a diagram showing how Longhorn is built.

Here is a chat log of Microsoft/Neowin/Stardock chat regarding PDC and Longhorn. On the last day of the Microsoft Professional Developer Conference, Stardock's Brad Wardell, Jed and Jana from Microsoft and Creamhackered from Neowin hosted a Neowin.net live chat to answer questions and provide information on Longhorn, the next version of Windows due out in 2006. The chat is very interesting and should help more people understand --in plain english-- what Longhorn has to offer. Elsewhere, ExtremeTech posted a preview of Longhorn with screenshots. Update: Another preview.

Microsoft introduced the next version of Windows, code-named “Longhorn,” at its Professional Developers Conference this week in Los Angeles. Although Microsoft has leaked details of Longhorn before, the conference offered the first official look at many of the technologies coming when the operating system ships sometime in 2005 or 2006. Elsewhere: "Today was the 4th and final day of the Microsoft Professional Developer's Conference in LA. If you were there, things were a lot quieter than previously. Most sessions had to do with creating software with all the new goodies." Read it here.