Up until now, we'd heard and believed that Windows Phone 7 would be based on Microsoft's time-tested Windows CE 6 kernel -- aging, yes, but still considerably newer and more technically modern than ...

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Microsoft has ended support for Windows CE, an operating system you probably thought was already dead, if you knew it had ever existed in the first place. Initially developed to bring a simple ...

It was a proto-netbook. It was a palmtop. It was a PDA. It was Windows Phone 7 but not Windows Phone 8, and then it was an embedded ghost. Its parents never seemed to know what to do with it after it ...

(Windows Consumer Electronics) Microsoft's earlier version of Windows for handheld devices and embedded systems that ran on x86, ARM, MIPS and SuperH CPUs. Introduced in 1996, Windows CE was renamed ...

John T. Mawhinney, Enterprise System Engineer, Peak Technologies, Inc.

Microsoft has unveiled a test version of its Windows CE 6 operating system for embedded devices. The operating system (OS) is commonly used in set-top boxes, GPS (global positioning system) based ...

Sure, we just spent the last four or five years chiding Microsoft for its anachronistic Windows CE interface, a UI which was holding Windows Mobile back in a post-stylus world, but now that Windows ...

Microsoft has unveiled a test version of its Windows CE 6 operating system for embedded devices. The operating system is commonly used in set-top boxes, GPS (Global Positioning System) devices, PDAs, ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Ah, Windows CE aka “Compact Embedded”. It was the heart of Windows Mobile and for a long time, ...