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NavReady is Microsoft's first category specific operating system

Microsoft announced a new embedded Windows operating system this week called NavReady. Microsoft says that NavReady is the first category-specific operating system it has released.

Some key features of NavReady are a small footprint that uses a componentized technology that allows the OS to be incorporated into CE 5.0 designs easily. The OS is designed to run on an ARM processor and it supports a 32-bit native real-time unified kernel.

Microsoft says that NavReady will help manufacturers build portable navigation devices (PNDs) with a highly connected design. The OS supports Bluetooth for rich hands-free usage, managed dial-up networking services and other Bluetooth features.

One key component is Live Search for devices that helps perform search quires to find points of interest. Desktop pass-though is also featured and allows the PND to establish connections to online services and the Internet when the device is connected to a Windows-based PC that has ActiveSync/WDMC installed along with an internet connection. PNDs using the NavReady OS can also act as SideShow display for Vista computers.

The internet connectivity of the new OS allows for use of MSN Direct for updates on traffic, gas prices and more. PC World reports that Mio Technology has already announced it will use the Windows Embedded NavReady 2009 operating system in its next line of Mio GPS devices.

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Perform search quires
By moflaherty on 6/17/2008 3:00:56 PM , Rating: 4
How does one perform a quire?

:)




Bit Late
By kelmon on 6/18/2008 7:32:54 AM , Rating: 2
I've got to wonder whether Microsoft is just too late to this particular party for this announcement to be of any importance. I have my doubts that the 3G iPhone is the only mobile phone with a GPS chip in it, but even if it is then I doubt even more that standalone navigation devices, aside from those integrated into cars, have much of a future. Putting GPS in a mobile phone is a natural place for it to go since you can then take advantage of location services wherever you are, which isn't convenient with current standalone devices, like TomToms, etc. If I were Microsoft, I'd concentrate more on making Windows Mobile work best with GPS because that's where the market for GPS is going to go.




BSOD
By Screwballl on 6/17/08, Rating: -1
RE: BSOD
By Mitch101 on 6/17/2008 3:13:18 PM , Rating: 4
I Have seen 2 BSOD's in the last 7 years on over 500 machines.

1- Too far of an overclock (My Fault)
2- Bad Stick of Ram. (Manufacturers Fault)

Bad Video Driver (Still unconfirmed but believed to exist)

/end reality/


RE: BSOD
By FITCamaro on 6/17/2008 4:12:58 PM , Rating: 2
Yeah I recently got my first BSOD in the past 3 years. Was while playing Age of Conan. Was either an Nvidia driver issue or something related to Visual Studio 2005.


RE: BSOD
By poothedrew on 6/17/2008 6:15:06 PM , Rating: 2
For all the chiding the MS gets about quality BSOD's have been mostly related to MS letting vendors write kernel drivers.


RE: BSOD
By dreddly on 6/17/2008 11:45:55 PM , Rating: 2
I get BSOD with vista about every two weeks, and only I use the system for email and it downloads torrents. No other programs running. Updated and virus scan active.

I have never seen a windows machine on my last 10+ systems go without a BSOD. The rest of you must be extraordinarily lucky.


RE: BSOD
By WhatAbout on 6/18/2008 7:14:10 AM , Rating: 2
The common thread is you.


RE: BSOD
By omnicronx on 6/18/2008 10:24:44 AM , Rating: 2
quote:
I have never seen a windows machine on my last 10+ systems go without a BSOD. The rest of you must be extraordinarily lucky.
No we just know how to setup our drivers properly. Video card drivers are usually the culprit *points at Nvidia*, but compared to XP, BSOD is almost non existent.

The biggest problem with BSODs is people adding new hardware that is broken or defective (memory issues whether it be ram or on devices like video cards come to mind). Rule of thumb, plug it in, if it doesnt work 100% without errors for a week, take it back, and save yourself the trouble.


RE: BSOD
By AlexWade on 6/18/2008 8:36:30 AM , Rating: 2
The only time I see a BSOD is a bad driver, bad software, failing hardware, or a hard drive error. Microsoft has really improved stability.

No, what concerns me about this is Live search. I am going to guess and say using Google or Yahoo or any other search engine will off limits. And then, oh by the way, Live search will show search ads. This is going to be a sweet plum, a monopoly on this type of searching.


RE: BSOD
By Screwballl on 6/18/2008 1:41:35 PM , Rating: 2
quote:
I Have seen 2 BSOD's in the last 7 years on over 500 machines.


As a tech for a small but expansive tech shop that handles systems across the state of FL, I have seen at least 50% of all Windows based machines needing repair of some sort come through with at minimum 1 BSOD.

Of those, somewhere around 90% were due to hardware problems or drivers, the other 10% was Windows itself having fits over no real problem (a software conflict with itself). These numbers are mostly XP, MCE, Vista and an occasionally 2000. The worst problems in the past year has almost always been Vista. XP with SP2 or SP3 and 2000 with SP4 or 5 is VERY stable with proper security so those occurrences are almost always user error. With Vista, yes a majority is hardware or driver issue but the other 10-15% is Vista not liking other Microsoft Vista ready software. I have seen so many problems with Vista from the get go and it is further compounded with SP1.

I have since gone to another company so I do not know what the numbers are for the past 3 months or so.
Of my home computers, the only ones to have had a BSOD was 3 different Vista installations on similar but different hardware, all Intel Conroe/P35/PCIe/SATA (non-RAID) setups. Vista has since been removed and those systems are now happy with no hardware changes, and using another OS (XP SP3 or Linux). Otherwise I have not seen any other BSODs since before XP SP1. Several (but not all) of my personal machines are setup for Linux and nothing at all to worry about.


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