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Windows CE, Microsoft's stunted middle child, reaches end of support at 26 years

• extraduder_ire 3y ago
  I wonder what migration path they suggest, if you want something like CE. Windows 10 IoT? Keep using CE?
  • pjmlp 3y ago
    > ... move to Windows 10 IoT Enterprise, utilize the Windows CE App Container with Windows 10 IoT Core, or continue licensing Windows CE 2013. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/iot/windows_ce/windows-ce-migration-faq#what-does-that-mean-for-existing-solutions--- https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/iot/windows_ce/win...
• guestbest 3y ago
  The promise of the first version of WinCE were so great as it was a complete 32 bit operating system written from scratch without any legacy issues, but the slowness of the machines, even as they could run on a pair of AA batteries, lack of software library and wireless infrared communications never really taking off for internet usage hampered the machines. Also, the 5 different CPU architectures became an issue for the touch screen devices before ARM processors became the norm. My favorite non ARM device was the wonderfully customizable Be-300 which had a few dedicated websites to hacking it. As a reminder all of these devices wince mainline operating systems came with handwriting recognition built in from the same people who built the software recognition for the Apple Newton.
• JoeAltmaier 3y ago
  Written clean-slate by people who hadn't written an OS before. And boy, it showed! Naive implementations of timers, interrupt handling, network management etc abounded. We had a license for source and spent a lot of time fixing it. Of course, Microsoft didn't want most of our fixes. Too proud or arrogant. They would just deny there was a problem etc, re-releasing broken code again and again. We would apply our fixes to our copy each release and continue on our merry way.