Not to be confused with updating from Windows 8 to Windows 8.1 .. Do a Bing on Windows 8.1 Update and you'll see what I mean!

Now available on MSDN, dated 3rd April 2014. It comes in three downloads.

• RT: mu_windows_8.1_rt_update_arm_4046909
• X86: mu_windows_8.1_windows_embedded_8.1industry_update_x86_4046911
• X64: mu_windows_8.1_windows_server_2012r2_windows_embedded_8.1industry_update_x64_4046913

Feature Summary: One Small Step for Touch Users.. one Giant Leap for Desktop Users.

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Announcements were plentiful at BUILD this week. Highlights include new developer opportunities on the Windows platform with a common platform across devices, a single toolset, a common infrastructure across the Windows and Windows Phone stores, and a clear commitment to interoperability. Specific announcements included:

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With a week later than the expected output, I finally released in Beta an MQTT broker completely developed in  C# that can run on .NET Framework and .NET Compact Framework 3.9 (on systems with Windows Embedded Compact 2013) his name is ... GnatMQ ! It has the M2Mqtt library “core” with which it shares the features of MQTT protocol about the part of the connection to the clients and the messages management. Obviously, it is completely open source and available on CodePlex but is currently in Beta version (aspect numerous reports on your part!). Main features included in the current release : All three Quality of Service (QoS) Levels (at most once, at least once, exactly once); Clean session; Retained messages; Will message (QoS, topic and message); Username/Password via a User Access Control; Subscription to topics with wildcards; Publish and subscribe handle using inf ...

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Coming soon, Compact13TileShell as an alternative to Compact13MinShell:

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  Yesterday, my afternoon's work was interrupted by one of the most beautiful email that I could receive: I was nominated as a Microsoft MVP for Windows Embedded category ! This award is the result of my passion and desire to share my knowledge with other people that started in 2011, the year in which I began to follow events organized by my current regional community DotNetCampania, which are subsequently became a member. Kidnapped from the soul with which they were held events, I have decided to become an active part of it and my first thanks go to all those that are part of it, because it is thanks to them that I have received this award which of course is for all them ! Thanks to Cristina Gonzalez Herrero who is my MVP community lead starting from yesterday and who will follow me in this year to do better for the community. Thanks to all the Italians Windows Embedded MVP who believed in me. In the time order I first met them, thanks to Valter Minute, the first guru and symbol of the Microsoft e ...

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The update for Compact 2013 is finally up on MSDN. This works in Visual Studio 2013. 
Windows Azure is to be renamed Microsoft Azure.
WEShapWiz can directly generate a C# Compact 2013 project as an OS Subproject that builds with the OS!

Topics:

• Compact 2013 vNext (Update) Released
• Compact 2013 Videos on Youtube by Doug Boland
• New Tool: WECSharpWiz
• Managed Code Development as part of the OS Build: WECSharpWiz

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Paolo Patierno, an active contributor to the Embedded101 community, received the Windows Embedded MVP award from Microsoft.

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  Today is "born" a new dedicated website by Microsoft on the Internet of Things that talks about the Internet of Your Things and highlights that the IoT can be achieved by each of us with his own "things" that can interconnect with each other through the Cloud. On the website you can find all the information about this new (or already mature ?) project on which Microsoft is focusing its business using what is already good for the embedded world (all operating systems of the Windows Embedded family to which I would add the .NET Micro Framework) and joining it to the powerful of the Cloud (Microsoft Azure is well known). It's true what the new CEO Satya Nadella said with intention to want "a cloud for everyone , on every device" for which the #cloud4device can be understood in its most general main, not only smartphones and tablets but also devices and "things" that connect to the big network ! You can subscribe to a newsletter that will begin on July 1st, but ... maybe from that date ... we'll see ...

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In December 2013, DMP released new platforms based on the Vortex86 architecture and compatible with the well known Arduino programming model. I ordered one of these platforms and made my first tests during the week end.

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If using 3.1.0.0 version you realize that Connect and Disconnect events are not raised ... it is correct ... they are not handled in the client and you need to update the library or ignore them !

I released an update M2Mqtt library (version 3.2.0.0) that lays out this oversight.

Following the code merge between the M2Mqtt client library and the future GnatMQ broker I made the mistake of including the SUBSCRIBE, UNSUBSCRIBE, CONNECT and DISCONNECT messages handling also in the client (of course without any sense) with the corresponding events.

The update is available as always on Nuget and I proceeded to update the corresponding M2Mqtt4CE component for Windows Embedded Compact 2013.