Windows Embedded Blog

Posted By Walter Sullivan

Walter Sullivan, senior project manager for Windows Embedded Automotive

Ten years ago, in April of 2003, a small team from Fiat and Microsoft got together in Redmond, in Microsoft’s Building 32, to talk about a potential collaboration. I was lucky enough to be in this meeting, unsure of whether there was any real opportunity. Through the course of the discussion, we started to realize that Fiat and Microsoft had a very common vision for how mobile devices would be integrated into the driving environment; both companies recognized the growth in personal mobile devices we were about to see. In fact, as we were prototyping our concept, the engineers at Fiat and their Research Center (CRF) were working on a very similar concept, which we saw for the first time later in 2003 as we continued our discussions. We at Microsoft called ours T-Box; Fiat called theirs Convergence. The similarities were uncanny.

Posted By Simon Francis
Solutions Specialist

Our two-part blog series on “smart” shopping trends continues with this analysis from Simon Francis on dressing-room innovation.

Posted By Guillaume Estegassy
Windows Embedded Business Group Lead for Japan

From attracting customers through digital signage to creating in-store dressing-room intelligent systems, technology is no doubt transforming the consumer experience. Today, Guillaume Estegassy brings you part one of our two-part blog series exploring these ‘smart’ shopping trends.

Posted By Steve Dunbar
Windows Embedded Lead, Northern Europe

Hello, blog readers! My name is Steve Dunbar, and as you can see from my bio, I am the business group lead for Northern Europe. The London newspaper The Times recently published a feature examining The Future of Retail, particularly how High Street brick-and-mortar operations are leveraging data to compete with online retailers to offer more personalization and lower prices. This conundrum was a core topic of discussion at a partner event I recently attended in Majorca, Spain, as it has a lot of relevancy to our own intelligent systems vision.

Posted By Pranish Kumar
Group Program Manager, Windows Embedded Automotive

Today, Microsoft launched the “Designing the Future of the Intelligent Car” digital series to showcase the team we have working on Microsoft’s automotive solutions and our vision for the intelligent car of the future. To kick-off the series I’ve asked the leader of the Windows Embedded Automotive team, Pranish Kumar, to provide some perspective on the team and the work they are doing.

Posted By David Wurster
Windows Embedded Senior Product Manager

Last night Tami Reller discussed some of the milestones we’ve reached as a company over the past six months since Windows 8 GA, including 100 million licenses sold. Tami also shared her thoughts on the evolution of the PC and a broader device market driven by mobility – asserting Microsoft’s commitment to “deliver the latest new innovations across an increasingly broad array of form factors of all sizes…while creating new opportunities for our ecosystem.” An update to Windows 8 codenamed Windows Blue – available later this year – is indicative of this company-wide devices and services commitment.