Hey, check this out, the new Moto Q has been announced - doesnt this looks like the latest iPaq ?

-Gursharan

 

Longhorn Release

The next version of Microsoft Windows code named "Longhorn" beta1 is on its release trail now with the official name Windows Vista.

 Sounds cool eh!

was wondering why dun they give such cool names to windows CE? Like, Windows Robot System or the Windows ChipDeCarpeDiem !!

 

Check out the official naming ceremony at http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2005/jul05/07-22LHMA.mspx

 

Enjoy!

Cool App

Was watching the CNBC Bill Gates talk. He foresees  Win CE / Mobile as a potential product from Microsoft in near time( by potential i mean something like XP). While watching him say about camera stuff on smartphones, a very smart idea for an app took birth. Imagine a web service that can give all the historical monument info by taking its picture as input. So you go to Statue of liberty, click its pic, process it locally( as can be given to the web service) and send it OTA. The web service in response to the pic sends back a whole book worth of info to you. Pretty cool Nah!

Think over it….

-Gursharan

 

Your stats

Check it out…..Works fine????

 

http://www.danasoft.com/sig/gurshi.jpg

 

INDIGO

Heard about it at the techEd. Came across nice tutorial in the WHIDBEY release notes. Indigo as MSDN says is the new standard for building and running connected systems. Like previous distributed technologies like web services, Remoting, MSMQ etc, it is a Service oriented programming model built on .NET framework. Will be available for Longohorn natively, and requires some SDKs( right?) for win XP and server 2003 development.

Sounds like next big thing!

-Gursharan

 

BillG - the STANDING man!

 This is BillG at the inaugral ceremony and the flag off dinner talking to the contestants at the WESC . His presence was for around 15 mins, and nobody dared to blink!!

 BillG briefing about the foray of Microsoft into embedded and the future of winCE. At back is Ivan Joseph, Product Manager, Academic, the great organizer of WESC and a wonderful guy to talk to….

Windows CE in Automobileeee

So, while reading Paul Yao’s( great guy to meet) master piece, I came across this info that windows CE is being presently used by Intermec, Psion Teklogix, Symbol Tech for board scanners. By Viewsonic, Philips and Silicon on displays and by BMW( with help from Siemens VDO), Citroen, Fiat, Mitsubishi, Subaru, Toyota and Volvo in AMobiles. Hope the VxW guy reads this!:-)

MS TechEd Over!

So the TechEd 2005 at New Delhi was over today with hands on sessions which were good. Ravi Soin from Microsoft Redmond was found to be the most active tutor! Was good. So, alls well that ends well is all what I can say right now (tired hell) . Next update soon !!

-Gursharan

 

Microsoft TechED 2005 great question

From past two days, I have been attending each track of the Mobile and Embedded devices group talks and in crux it was , Mind Boggling! The intensity with which Windows Mobile and CE is shooting ahead is tremendous. People from the globe were discussing how is Windows CE better than vox 330 or RTLinux. The guy giving talk on win CE was Asang Dani from Kanetkars insti in Nagpur – Dcube s/w I suppose.( former Dow Jones and Microsoft Employee). A VxW employee buckled him at the point that is Windows CE a Hard or a Soft RTOS and he was  like……. I took pleasure in clarifying and told him that Windows CE Automobile edition is on way now and is already being used by Lego robots…..Again he asked the same question. I wonder how smart employees VxW has. Its catastrophic for a Robot to have a soft RTOS !( Am I right? – comments appreciated)

 Visit for win CE Automobil http://www.winplanet.com/article/1153-.htm

 

-Gursharan

 

Placement Co-Ords.

Hi comrades

Its getting late now to decide who will be the class co-ord from our batch for this year’s placement session. Bhatia Sir has announced special rewards( or bribe as you may like to take it) for the co-ords.

1. Team leadership Certficates– CAT ppl where’s your oppurtunistic instinct

2. Special Recommendations to the visiting companies

The Co-Ords will be required to connect to the companies on their own with Bhatia Sir just giving the initial and the final strokes. So, I request ppl to leave their names on the Blog or poll( lets first poll to get the contestants:-)) on the blog, whatever you feel comfortable in.

Thnx and Kia

Gursharan

 

Testing BlogJet

I have installed an interesting application - BlogJet. It's a cool Windows client for my blog tool (as well as for other tools). Get your copy here: http://blogjet.com

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