New Website Targets Windows Embedded Developers

Posted on October 30, 2002

WindowsForDevices.com is a new independent online technical community and information site targeted exclusively at developers using the Microsoft Windows Embedded operating systems. Headquartered in Palo Alto, Calif., WindowsForDevices.com launched in October 2002.

The new site showcases technical content, including articles, opinion, news and discussion forums, from experts in the Windows for embedded devices community. Microsoft has agreed to support the site with editorial content created by developers at its Embedded Appliance and Platforms Group and its Mobile Devices Division. More than 1,500 Microsoft Embedded Partners will also contribute. A staff of embedded industry veterans will independently edit and operate the site.

"Now that smart phones and other Internet-enabled devices are driving the deeply embedded design cycle, I believe Windows CE .NET is primed for significant growth in the next year," said Rick Lehrbaum, founder and editor in chief of WindowsForDevices.com. "On the industrial and single-board-computing front, interest in Windows XP Embedded is also strong. There's going to be a huge demand for quality technical information on both fronts, which is what WindowsForDevices.com is going to supply."

In addition to its technical content, WindowsForDevices.com will track and provide links to downloads of available Windows Embedded software development tools. WindowsForDevices.com also will provide a weekly newsletter, device profiles, quick reference guides, new product information, job listings and aggregated news. The site will be sponsored by multiple vendors, including Microsoft, Intrinsyc Software Inc., OpenSystems Publishing and RTC Group Inc. Also sponsoring the site is Venturcom Inc., recognized as an industry leader in supporting real-time developers working with Windows Embedded.

"We're going to be the single independent place to get objective, balanced technical information and to communicate with your peers in the engineering community," said Alexander Wolfe, executive editor and senior analyst of WindowsForDevices.com. Wolfe has covered the embedded industry for almost two decades; he is best known for having broken the 1994 worldwide story about Intel Corp.'s floating-point Pentium bug.

The WindowsForDevices.com management team includes Rick Lehrbaum and Alexander Wolfe. Lehrbaum, editor in chief and founder, has spent 20 years in the embedded community, including a stint at Ampro, where he served as vice president of engineering and as interim president. He later formed the PC/104 Consortium. He also founded the Embedded Linux Consortium and the LinuxDevices.com website. Wolfe, executive editor and senior analyst, has spent nearly 20 years tracking the industry for publications such as Electronics magazine, Supercomputing Review and Embedded Systems Programming.