Microsoft: Playing with Embedded Division
Corporate reorganization puts group under command of Xbox exec. How can that be a good thing?

Autum Leaves
Nokia joins Eclipse; Wind River CEO presents; PC/104 seeks awards entries; Microsoft elevates Wipro.

September Songs
Enea Debuts Element; Green Hills Embraces Eclipse; VDC Defends Wind River, Applauds MontaVista.

Palm OS Changes Hands
Access of Japan acquires PalmSource; MontaVista releases Pro 4.0 RTOS; EclipseCon call for papers; and more.

Falling Ahead
Device makers get Daylight Savings Time extension; Fed approves Green Hills software; kit for Win Embedded; Trolltech mulls IPO.

Pre-Labor Day Labors
Eurotech joins DSO bandwagon; Microsoft re-issues WinXP embedded security updates; Wind stock bounces back.

What DSO Did On Its Summer Vacation
Wind River financials rise, stock falls; SBS loves WinXP Embedded; Enea joins auto club; and more.

Early Days? Make That Very Early Days
New Gartner Hype Cycle shows why full acceptance of DSO could be as long as five years off.

PalmSource and DSO: Close, No Cigar
By migrating its proprietary OS to a Linux kernal, the PDA software company should get many, if not all, of the benefits of device software optimization.

Learning From Microsoft
For the DSO community, the fortunes of the software giant's mobile and embedded devices business provide three important lessons.

We Love Linux...Or Do We?
Without buy-in from developers, the open-source OS could flounder. DSO proponents, take note.

Field of DSO Dreams
Green Hills joins Wind River in endorsing device software optimization...with Enea said to be making it three.

A Good Idea. Now What?
Device software optimization remains largely in the conceptual stage--and a controversial one at that.

DSO by Any Other Name
DSO as a category is fast emerging, but confusion during the establishment of the category is not unusual.

Healthy Project, Unhealthy Company
A DSO project at Nortel succeeds despite corporate walls crumbling down around it.

Offshore Outsourcing: Hard to Love, Harder to Resist
Competitive issues move some DSO development to low-cost workers in India.

A Better Plan for London
Technology can play a peaceful role, too.

Introducing Industry View
A new series of opinion columns from top executives of device-software hardware, software, and services vendors.

DSO Wants You!
As the site completes its first full month, we ask DSO leaders and innovators to share their success with the community.

The Real Winner in Wind River/Green Hills Legal Settlement?
A little thing called DSO.

In Memoriam: Jack Kilby
Where would we be today without the pioneering invention of this brilliant yet modest engineer?

Reader Mail: Long Live Apple!
To care or not to care (what's powering our computing devices). That is the question.

Eclipse Device Software Project is Good News
Eclipse Foundation's board of directors approved the project on June 14. Here's why that matters.

Power To The Patents!
Intellectual property disputes highlight growing importance of device software.

Intel Inside at Apple? Say It Ain't So, Steve
The computer company seems to have forgotten that components matter.

A Matter of Ethics
As the importance of device software grows, so too do the demands on manufacturers.

Microsoft Moves In
Its new POS version of Windows Embedded is a clear sign of things to come--though not of the ultimate outcome.

Letter from Orlando
In which our editor gets a DSO reality check at Wind River's first user conference.

Welcome, Device Software Optimizers
Peter Krass welcomes you to our new site and his new blog...explains how the site is organized...and invites you to send him DSO comments, suggestions, and questions.