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Keynote speech of Bill Gates from MEDC 2005 : even podcasts were mentioned ! May 10, 2005 [General] | By Edward J. R. Yes, even word "podcasts" was used in this keynote speech, albeit not by Bill Gates himself but by one of Microsoft employees, who were presenting within frame of this keynote - in short demonstrations - various new capabilities of Windows Mobile and Visual Studio 2005. In this news item we present some highlights from this keynote plus whole keynote as a podcast (MP3 file downloadable to your MP3 player of choice): Read on! Highlights: this keynote took place during MEDC 2005 conference on Tuesday, May 10, 2005, 9-10 a.m. PDT, in Las Vegas, USA not only Windows Mobile but also embedded Windows - Windows CE and Windows XP embedded are discussed Windows Mobile 5.0 is being introduced for the first time. The official release of information about Windows Mobile 5.0 at the website of Microsoft was withhold until this keynote speech in presentations in this keynote speech - presentations made by various Microsoft employees - the HTC Universal Pocket PC phone is used in operation. HTC Universal offers VGA display (640x480 pixels), 3G/UMTS/GSM radio interfaces plus full Qwerty keyboard and built-in Wi-Fi. HTC Universal was presented with Windows Mobile 5.0 running in it. Samsung i300 - a Microsoft Smartphone powered by Windows Mobile 5.0 for smarpthone was also presented. This phone has built-in hard disk of size: 3GB. new fantastic emulators of Windows Mobile have been presented. These emulators emulate not only operating system but also processor - so they are binary compatible with all existing ARM applications ! In other words: you can run binary existing ARM in your PC in an emulator of Windows MObile 5.0 ! This is incredibly important for developers, but may be useful also for end users. new APIs of Windows Mobile 5.0 have been presented in demonstrations. For example using location API in combination with SQL Mobile of Outlook to set appointments from application into Outlook Mobile and further to Outlook in a desktop PC. Here is how Microsoft describes this keynote: Bill Gates Keynote from the Microsoft Mobile & Embedded Developers Conference in Las Vegas At the Microsoft Mobile & Embedded Developers Conference in Las Vegas, Bill Gates' keynote announced the launch of Windows Mobile 5.0 and the company’s long-term development strategies for mobile applications and embedded operating systems. To view webcast (video recording) of this keynote click here. Once transcript of this keynote will be available we will update this news item with a link to this transcript! In meantime you can download podcast with this whole keynote here (format: MP3, size: 30.1 MB) - you can put it to your MP3 player of choice and listen to this keynote wherever whenever you wish. URL to RSS feed of all msmobiles.com Podcasts is here - you can find ther interviews, latest news and other audio recordings in form of podcasts. Phrase "even podcasts" can be heard at 25:56 (25 minutes, 56 seconds after start) in this podcast. Post your comment (free registration is required to post, but if you register you can edit your posts later) << Previous Story Next Story >>

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