October, according to the company.

(Click here for a larger view of Microsoft's "WES201" presentation from ESC Boston)

Microsoft's presentations, listed on the company's MSDN website, comprise the 12 sessions delivered at ESC Boston last Oct. 28 and Oct. 29, concerning Windows Embedded Standard (WES) and Windows CE 6.0. Unfortunately, as the company's bloggers have conceded over the past few weeks, the online replay of these useful presentations has been bedeviled with technical difficulties.

The documents were originally posted in mid-November, but accidentally included DRM (digital rights management) that rendered them unopenable. Now, according to a blog posting this week by Microsoft software architect Mike Hall, "the ESC Boston presentations are now really online and DRM-free."


The ESC Boston presentations must be viewed within Internet Explorer
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Though they derive from PowerPoint originals, the documents can only be viewed using Microsoft's Internet Explorer and XPS Viewer, as pictured above. (The XPS Viewer comes with Windows Vista, but must be downloaded for Windows XP as part of the .NET Framework 3.0, according to Microsoft.)

Unfortunately, in attempting to download these much-anticipated presentations this afternoon, WindowsForDevices.com found three that still refused to load, which we have duly noted below. For those that did load, we obtained the presenters' names, and have added them to the descriptions provided by MSDN.

The presentations devoted to WES are listed by Microsoft as follows:

• WES201 -- "Introduction to Windows Embedded Standard and roadmap," presented by senior lead software design engineer Tom Xanthos
  
• WES301 -- "Windows Embedded Standard: Developer considerations from image inception to deployment" (did not load for us)
  
• WES302 -- "Using write filters to build reliable devices," presented by software development engineers Chesong Lee and Joe Ayala
  
• WES303 -- "Leveraging the Windows Presentation Framework (WPF) in an embedded environment" (did not load)
  
• WES304 -- "Windows Embedded Standard: Remote debugging," presented by software development engineer Preston VanderWeyst
  
• WES305 -- "Servicing devices and integrating System Center products with Windows Embedded Standard" (did not load)

The presentations devoted to Windows CE are listed as follows:

• CE201 -- "Discover Windows Embedded CE technologies, tools and roadmaps," presented by senior development manager Kurt Kennett
  
• CE301 -- "Deep Dive into the build process of Windows Embedded CE," presented by technical evangelist Olivier Bloch
  
• CE302 -- "Building real-time systems with Windows Embedded CE," presented by Kurt Kennett
  
• CE202 -- "Develop the next generation of Windows Embedded CE applications using Visual Studio and .Net or native code," presented by Mike Hall
  
• CE303 -- "Debugging Windows Embedded CE kernel and applications," presented by software design engineer Travis Hobrla
  
• CE203 -- "Building connected and distributed systems using Windows Embedded," presented by Mike Hall

Further information

To see Microsoft's list of Windows Embedded presentations from ESC Boston 2008 and download the files, visit the company's website, here. To see Mike Hall's blog posting about the presentations, see here.

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