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I think that porting WinCE in the same manner would be more promising. That OS had was really a solid foundation, I have no idea why MS abandoned the project.
by c-smile 4y ago
I think that porting WinCE in the same manner would be more promising.
That OS had was really a solid foundation, I have no idea why MS abandoned the project. To make modern UI layer on top of it and it may fly.
- dmitrygr 4y agoDo it. sounds cool!
- c-smile 4y agoI did UI part of it. Up until last year my Sciter ( https://sciter.com https://sciter.com ) worked on WinCE. Dropped support after my last customer that was using WinCE decided to drop support of that OS. WinCE had pretty solid and stable core runtime and API. Graphics was limited by GDI (no antialiasing and alpha channel) but that was the only major problem.
- garaetjjte 4y agoFrom my experience "WinCE" and "solid" doesn't really belong in the same sentence. It felt like hodgepodge of various pieces outsourced to lowest bidder, with atrocious documentation. I don't know, maybe it was late stage decline and it was actually better in early versions (I only used WEC7). Why would they want to keep developing this instead of migrating to NT?