Windows Embedded Standard 8 CTP
Microsoft just released the Community Technology Preview (CTP) of Windows Embedded Standard 8 (WES8)!
It can be downloaded here and a detailed datasheet can be found here.
Windows Phone SDK on Windows 8 Consumer Preview
Like many software developers, these days I'm very excited and eager to get started using the Consumer Preview on a daily basis, both at work and at home. But Windows 8 is still a preview release, which means that there could be some sort of software incompatibilities. Prior to completely switch my workstation to the next version of Windows, yesterday I started to play with Windows 8 Consumer Preview 32bit on a secondary laptop (a DELL XPS M1330) with just a unique goal: verify which development tools work and which don't.
Read more →Windows 8 Consumer Preview Available
The Windows 8 Consumer preview and VS11 Beta are now available. If you want, you can download and try them by yourself!
Read more →Gianni’S Hub For Windows Phone
It is now possible to receive all the recent news and highlights from the blog directly on your Windows Phone, instantly.
Read more →Kinect SDK And Windows 8 Metro-Style Apps
For a master degree thesis project about NUI (Natural User Interfaces) by Marina Sabetta, student at the Polythecnic of Turin, a home-entertainment embedded system is in development stage: its purpose is to let elder and non-technologic people browse the web, send/receive e-mails, interact through Instant Messengers and use a mobile phone, in a simple and intuitive manner. The prototype is based on Windows 8 Developer Preview and consists mainly of a .NET Metro-style app which acts as Windows system shell.
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