Welcome to HPC:Factor

A name that any veteran of the Windows CE community will instantly recognise. Henri Spagnolo aka HPC:Factor member Henri was the creator of the legendary Jornada 700 series site Handheld Attitude - which remains online to this day!

In addition to being a core member of the Handheld PC website... Continue Reading »

Continuing our trip through the small world of Windows CE software developers who are still actively selling their software. This week, we look are looking at developer and published author Viktor Toth.

Viktor's website is still alive and well, offering information on his C++ books, research articles and publications as well... Continue Reading »

HPC:Factor has lacked it since it's inception - in fact both S|HPC and c e 3 2 0 before it both also lacked it: Robust search.

A project was attempted back in 2005 to try and implement full site search. Unfortunately as any desktop Windows user will be able to tell... Continue Reading »

Let's face it, there are very few commercial software developers left in the Windows CE world from whom you can still buy software.

In the first of what I hope to be a focus on our few remaining active commercial developers, I stumbled on a pleasant surprise this week when I... Continue Reading »

Did you WinCE the first time you heard Windows CE spoken aloud?

Microsoft aficionado, developer and tech enthusiast Raymond Chen did.

Chen, creator of the 'The Old New Thing' website and blog on Microsoft.com and author of the book 'Old New Thing, The: Practical Development Throughout the Evolution of Windows' has been... Continue Reading »

When both the Hardware Compatibility List (HCL) and the Software Compatibility List (SCL) were originally conceived. It was always the intention that community feedback for HCL peripherals and SCL apps would be used to derive the read-out for whether a particular app/device was compatible with any given version... Continue Reading »