Microsoft Windows CE 4.20 - McKendric
Released in April 2003, Windows code name McKendric became the most widely adopted edition of the Windows CE .net series. It was the only edition to be converted into a Windows Mobile Platform with the release of Windows Mobile 2003 some two months later.
The CE 4.2 release is a core OS release, and as such lacks the integrated Pocket Office
applications akin to its Handheld PC Platform predecessors All of the viewer applications made a welcome return in CE 4.2, with some very minor modifications.
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By the release of Windows CE 4.2 only one manufacturer was actively developing a Clamshell 640x240 program. OEM's were at liberty to release hardware specifications of their own choosing, which provided some freedom for devices released under the 4.2 lineage, however the release was destined to be nothing more than a niche market product.
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| Windows CE 4.2 Desktop |
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| 'My Computer' or Windows CE Explorer |
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| The About Box in the System Applet |
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| The Start Menu |
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| Control Panel |
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| Wordpad. Cosmetically similar to Pocket Word, but not identical |
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| Microsoft Excel Viewer 2.1 (Licensed from WestTek LLC) |
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| Microsoft PowerPoint Viewer 2.1 (Licensed from WestTek LLC) - with external VGA support |
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| Microsoft Word Viewer 2.1 (Licensed from WestTek LLC) |
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| Microsoft's PDF Viewer 2.1 (Licensed from WestTek LLC) |
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| The Windows CE Image and Thumbnail Viewer |
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| Internet Explorer CE 6.0, About and HPC:Factor's home page |
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| Windows Media Player 8 for Windows CE |
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| Help - Still a windowed application, despite NEC' Comic Sans experiment |
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| Date & Time |
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| Terminal |
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| The Remote Desktop 5 client - heavily modified from the default to fit on HVGA |
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| The all important Solitaire game |
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| Visual MSMQ Client |
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| Pocket Command 4.20 |
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| Instead of OOBE, under Windows CE .net first-run users are simply asked to calibrate the touch screen |
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