Microsoft has released it Windows Embedded Developer Update tool which updates the tools of several Windows Embedded Toolkits.
For now only Windows Embedded Standard 7 is supported but support for Compact 7 has already been announced.

To download the free tool visit the Microsoft WEDU site:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsembedded/en-us/products/westandard/developer-update.mspx

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Windows Embedded Standard 7 is now available to order and is on stock. Also Evaluation versions can be ordered now!

Windows Embedded Standard 7 is the newest Embedded release based upon Windows 7 Ultimate. It is available for both 32 bit and 64 bit platforms. Splitted in 150 feature packages and more than 300 driver packs - Windows Embedded Standard 7 offers a high flexibility to build a system fitting your needs.

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The Deployment Image Servicing and Management Tool User Interface (DISMUI) allows you to modify your Windows Embedded Standard 7 image by using an easy to use graphical user interface. By using DISMUI you can add and/or remove Feature Packages at any time by just selecting the packages. The software will take care of the rest. A dependency check ensures that all needed Feature Packages are selected.

With DISMUI there is no need to use the DISM.exe command line anymore!

Wolfgang Unger received the Microsoft MVP Award 2010.

Microsoft is pleased to recognize and award its Most Valuable Professionals (MVPs). The MVP Award is given to thank individuals for their exceptional contributions to technical communities worldwide. When a community participant sees an MVP in a technical community, whether in a newsgroup, as a user group host, a conference speaker, or a respondent in forums, that community participant can be confident that the information shared by the MVP will be of the highest caliber and will help every user make the most of the technology. 
Worldwide more than 100 million users participate in technical communities; 85 of these users are active Microsoft MVPs in the category Windows Embedded.

View the MVP Profile

Directlink: http://www.elbacom.com/blog/

Microsoft recognizes Wolfgang Unger as an 

outstanding individual from an Authorized Embedded 
Distributor who has shown exceptional ingenuity, 
productivity, and advocacy for Windows Embedded

Symptoms

If you have XP Professional Embedded with an MUI package – e.g. German installed and applied and you try to change the Product Key via the Telephone activation window (msoobe /a) the window will just hang after you click “Change Product Key”.
 

Solution

Contact us and we will send you a tool which fixes the issue automatically.

The program can be run in manual mode which displays all the MUI packages which needs a patch.

It can be also runned in unattended mode so the patch will be applies automatically to all MUI packages without any prompt.

Wolfgang Unger received the Microsoft MVP Award 2009.

Microsoft is pleased to recognize and award its Most Valuable Professionals (MVPs). The MVP Award is given to thank individuals for their exceptional contributions to technical communities worldwide. When a community participant sees an MVP in a technical community, whether in a newsgroup, as a user group host, a conference speaker, or a respondent in forums, that community participant can be confident that the information shared by the MVP will be of the highest caliber and will help every user make the most of the technology. 
Worldwide more than 100 million users participate in technical communities; 85 of these users are active Microsoft MVPs in the category Windows Embedded.

View the MVP Profile

Due to the ongoing popularity of Windows XP Professional as a robust and stable operating system, the inventory of product keys has been reduced to the point where it is necessary to add more keys in order to avoid impacting end users of Embedded Systems. These are the product keys that are printed on the Certificates of Authenticity (COAs) affixed to Embedded Systems preinstalled with Windows XP Professional for Embedded Systems.

To address the shortage of product keys, MS has released SP2c which expands the product key range to support distribution of Windows XP Professional for Embedded Systems through end of life which is currently planned for December 31, 2016.

Windows Server® 2008 without Hyper-V™ for Embedded Systems, in multiple editions, will be available on April 1, 2008.

Windows Server 2008 for Embedded Systems, with its smaller footprint, new virtualization and security technologies, and low acquisition cost, is the most robust and reliable foundation on which to deliver dedicated solutions and appliances offered by Microsoft to-date.