Windows Embedded Quebec!

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I’m sitting in the Theater here at PDC – I figured this deserved a Live Blog! Shabnam Erfani, one of our Lead Program Managers on the Windows Embedded team, is presenting “Windows Embedded Quebec: Developing for Devices”

 

There are about 150+ folks here in the room, eagerly watching and listening.

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Why, who are those folks right up front? It’s Sarah Ali, one of our Windows Embedded Program Managers, and Dion Hutchings! in the lower right corner, you can see Cuong’s arm (the real one not the CPU) smile_nerd

 

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Shabnam spends time explaining where the Embedded Family products fit in.

 

 

Formerly, folks had heard of Quebec as the Next Generation of XPE/Windows Embedded Standard. It was *rumored* to have been based off the Windows Vista Code base. Shabnam’s confirming here that we’re architecting Quebec to leverage the best features that Windows 7 has to offer, as well as adding Embedded enabling features that devices need/require to do their jobs.  

 

She also explains about some of the  cool new scenarios here that have been announced that will be enabled in the embedded world too with Quebec. Items like Multi-Touch, Silverlight, Windows Azure, Surface, etc., are all important factors, or will be very soon, as the future of the Windows product family evolves!

 

She keeps referring back to the “martini mixer” device being very important… I think she needs a drink! martini

 

we transitioned into a deep dive on the development process, where she explained the need for rapid prototyping and told us that Quebec is built with that in mind. All of your familiar app development tools like, Expression, Visual Studio 2008, Live Mesh, .NET Framework 3.5 are leveraged with Quebec.

 

Great Job Shabnam!

JC