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MS PDC, Thursday, Day 4, October 15, 1998, Denver Colorado
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Harel Kodesh, Microsoft VP,
Consumer Appliances Division |
Mark Gentile, Odyssey Software
demonstrating CE Fusion |
Todd's Notes
Harel Kodesh, Microsoft Consumer Appliances Division VP, gave the keynote
address today. His keynote focused entirely on Windows CE.
Harel noted that the H/PC Pro is using has gone 16 hours, so far, on a
single charge.
Steve G. (sp?) demonstrated the Windows CE veresion of WebTV as well as the Sega Dreamcast
game console built around Windows CE and DirectX driven 128-bit graphics.
Both demonstrations were very interesting.
Mark Gentile (sp?) from Odyssey Software demonstrated the firm's CE Fusion product
that provided seamless connectiviy between SQL server and a PA-2400 CE slate.
It was noted several times that there are two major types of CE devices.
[1] PC Companions: H/PC, H/PC Pro, P/PC, A/PC and
[2] Home Companions: WebTV, Sega Dreamcast, Set-top boxes, Media players
(DVD units running Windows CE), and Webphones.
Extending Web Content To PC Companions With Mobile Channels
by Jay McClain, Development Lead, Windows CE Internet Core
- A Mobile Channels enabling download for H/PCs and H/PC Pros is scheduled for release
during the week of October 19, 1998.
Jay demonstrated Mobile Channels displayed on a Sharp Mobilon HC-4500 H/PC.
- The version of Pocket Internet Explorer that ships with H/PC Professional systems
provides support for HMTL 3.2 (vs. HTML 3.0 on H/PCs) and Javascript.
- CE Services 2.2 (shipped with H/PC Pros) can filter internet content for a mobile device.
For example, it can automatically adjust the color range of an image to look best on the
H/PC Pro color display.
- In listing Mobile Channel resources, Jay listed our buddy Chris De Herrera's site.
Unfortunately, he listed Chris' old URL. Chris' current URL is http://www.cewindows.net/.
Unfortunately, Jay did not list MSN's (my) Windows CE Forum. Sniff sniff...
Developing Great Applications for the Palm-size PC by Timothy Sharpe, Software
Design Engineer, Mobile Electronics Group
- Virtual Keyboard Tips: [1] Slide stylus up a key to capitalize the letter.
[2] Slide the stylus left across the keyboard to backspace.
[3] Slide the stylus right across the keyboard to insert a space.
- Casio estimates it sold 1,500 Casio E-11 units to PDC attendees this week.
That works out to 27% of the 5,500 developers who attended the event.
Let's hope we start to see 1,500 new applications soon!
- Active Desktop Tip: If you switch to the desktop (House/Clock icon on the bottom
left portion of the screen), you can return to the previous application by sliding your stylus
up over the Desktop icon.
- Undocumented Feature That May Be Removed in Future CE Devices:
This tip is mostly for developers who do not want to use an installer to test applicatins.
[1] Bring up the virtual keyboard.
[2] Tap run23.
Run your application the command line. Enjoy!
But remember that this undocumented feature could disappear in a future release!
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Farewell to the PDC and Denver |