Windows Embedded CE 6.0 R3 is finally available for download here. This intermediate release (while we wait for Windows Embedded Compact in 2010) brings several features, the most important of which is probably Silverlight for Windows Embedded. Download a free trial of Expression Blend to create new user interface experience for your embedded device! For more info on the features included in CE 6.0 R3 check the following links: Bruce Eitman's blog Olivier Bloch's blog Windows Embedded CE 6.0 R3 release...

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Recently we faced a strange problem on one of our x86 systems: after some successfull boots the system was unable to start the OS anymore but deleting the 'Documents and Settings' folder on the storage device (we included the hive based registry in the OS) the system behave normally. After some investigation we found out that when the system was not booting correctly the USB OHCI driver was performing an endless loop waiting for the host controller to reset (thus preventing the device manager to...

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In Windows Embedded CE 6.0, the kernel and OEM code are divided into the following three components: oal.exe (nk.exe): Startup code and the OEM adaptation layer (OAL) implementation kernel.dll: OAL-independent kernel implementation KITL.dll: This contains the platform-specific Kernel Independent Transport Layer support. In previous versions the OAL and the Kernel where linked together in one executable (kern.exe) which would possibly include KITL support (in this case the executable was kernkitl.exe)....

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