As reported in New Mobile Computing, it seems that Microsoft’s buyout of Connectix is already bearing fruit, as the Visual Studio.Net 2003 developer tools will include Virtual PocketPC, a PocketPC envoronment that should make developing and testing PocketPC software on a Windows desktop easier.
i’ve been developing in visual studio for quite a while now, and you could already download a pocketPC emulator.
Now it’s just included in the VS package, no biggie. It was even included in an Everett (2003) beta released before connectix was aquired
A PocketPC emulator has been a while – in fact, I downloaded one about half a year ago and discovered it to be based on Connectix emulation technology, with parts of it looking similar to Virtual PC.
Like people are saying, you can freely download evb 3.0/eC++ from MS’s website, that includes PPC Emulator. Was only ment for dev, no actual use could be made of it.
C’mon, I mean… The Pocket PC emulator has _zero_ (I repeat, _zero_) relation to the Connectix buyout, is an altogether different kettle of fish and it would be ludricous even to consider that one had anything to do with the other…
If you want to post news, make it correct.
What if you had a beowulf cluster of these…
Dear OSnews Editors: Please do not turn this site into another /. with the incorrect new posts. This is your first time and I understand mistakes happen but please don’t do it again.
In soviet russia PocketPCs emulate you!
Still, this is a cool trinket. Anyone know if one is available for Linux? Or does WINE run it fine? A quick search on google gave no useful answers.
Does Microsoft think the world stops at the boarders of the USA?
http://www.microsoft2003launch.com/dev/
the prime example of a company who can’t grasp the realities that we live in a globalised work. Simply promoting your stuff in 300 hicksville towns in the middle of no where isn’t going to bring any fans. If it was me I would have had a “launch event” at the major cities, Seattle, Los Angles, New York, Chicago, Sydney, Auckland, London, Paris, Moscow, Berlin and Shanghi
“Simply promoting your stuff in 300 hicksville towns in the middle of no where isn’t going to bring any fans.”
Looking at that list I saw no cities that would fit your description of hicksvilles in the middle of nowhere. Granted, they weren’t all huge megatropolises but they weren’t small towns either. That being said, it is likely that a worldwide promotional event would be a lot more expensive than simply blanketing large cities throughout the US.
Or was this simply another yuropeen bashing the US trying to act kewl?
is “yuropeen” the fabulous US education system at work, the same one that teaches that everything external to the US is undemocratic and backwards? the same one where the only history taught is American History?
Actually, I studied Eastern and Western History as well as American History in public school here in the US. Apparently your fabulous European school systems failed to teach geography though. Well outside Europe anyway. Hey, on your map is the US labeled “there be injuns here”? Had you bothered to look up the cities in the list you would find they are actually respectably sized. Most might not be centers of culture and government but they aren’t hicksvilles.
Very humorous considering I am not located in Europe. Maybe instead of hiding behind an anonymous name, how about come out of the shadows and reveal who you really are.
Ok, you say you’ve “I studied Eastern and Western History”, please give me a historial outline of what happened to Charles I, why did it happen, and what role did Charles II play.
Better yet actually, give me a detailed explaination on how Catherine the Great of Russia ascended to the throne.
Ok, you say you’ve “I studied Eastern and Western History”, please give me a historial outline of what happened to Charles I, why did it happen, and what role did Charles II play.
Better yet actually, give me a detailed explaination on how Catherine the Great of Russia ascended to the throne.
And if you can tie in Connectix or Microsoft’s Virtual PocketPC, be sure to post it here. Otherwise, email each other with your pointless ego-boasting.
Yeah, don’t tie up the forums with this crap.
this nonsense of painting everyone and everything with the same brush is ridiculous, especially in the OSNEWS FORUM.
leave or get on OT
I just get pissed off when you see so many companies forget the world is a large place. Heck, I just tried to find out the price of a Siemens Workstation, they send me to the Australian site, and guess what? nothing about the so-called workstations they sell. Nice to see that Siemens are making an effort to persuade customers to buy from them through their inability to communicate.
Anway, VS .NET 2003 should be an interesting tool, and hopefully more companies will start to port their applications to .NET. God knows, the last transition from Win16 to win32 took for bloody ever with companies like Lotus taking 5years just to port Lotus 123 to Win32. In a perfect world Microsoft would put the hardword on these lazy companies and get them to port, however, things are that simple ;-(
Speaking as someone who is unfortunate enough to have to write code for these lousy things from time to time, I’d be much more interested to find out if they’ve improved the compiler and libraries since eVC++ 3. No try/catch exception handling, half the standard C library functions missing or not implemented, not to even mention the C++ libraries. It’s an embedded system, so you don’t expect everything to be there, but come on…
The do devices look fantastic, though.
Actually, there is already a PocketPC 2002 emulator based on Connectix technology bundled as a standard component in the PowerPC 2002 SDK download available from the MSDN website.
This is not a standard part of the eMbedded C++/VB SDK, but a seperate download which works with the eMbedded tools to update the components to PocketPC 2002. (eMbedded tools 3.0 is fairly old already – the PocketPC support is for the original release of PocketPC such as that used on the iPaq 3100 and 3600 family).
To confirm this (if you don’t believe me), install eMbtools and the PocketPC 2002 SDK, and then start up the PocketPC 2002 emulator and read the about dialog…