Another nail in the coffin!

And in the article linked further down the page http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/09/as-dell-drops-out-microsoft-still-doesnt-give-buyers-a-reason-to-pick-windows-rt/ folks there don't have much good to say about the Surface, either.

Discouraging; it's all going Zune (two of which I own).

Jake

So what will they be using in embedded devices, GPSs, and the like? I don't see Windows CE going away - I just see it becoming more concealed.

Actually I think you'll see GPS devices start going with Android...

For embedded devices, most have ARM processors, and that is what the article was about...expanding Windows Phone 8 to work with everything that is ARM based and dropping RT completely.

That will certainly end any hope of Embedded Compact 7 to ever gain any momentum...which it really never has anyways. I've yet to see any tablet with it even though it has been out several years now....not that I really care since it doesn't run any of the older CE stuff anyways...

But you don't even see CE6 tablets these days either...

The big advantages of CE are that it has a small footprint and can run well on low-power devices. I have to wonder whether Android would perform well on a GPS. Maybe more GPSs will rely on smaller versions of Linux than Android, though, given that some GPSs were already Linux-based before the Android era.

I thought we had a similar discussion 20 months ago...
http://www.hpcfactor.com/forums/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=16581&posts=8&start=1

Android is no smaller than Windows Phone, as Linux is no smaller than Windows NT... it all depends how much you want to include in your build. so yea its entirely possible to have an embedded system running a form of Windows 8 - if not the entire thing.

Just went by my local Big Lots. Having a pre-Christmas sale I guess. I picked up an Emerson EM545 Android Tablet. It is a little 4.3" Android 4.1 capacitive touch screen tablet...pretty nice really

Anyways, the cost was $29.99 on sale with another 40% off. My entire cost after Michigan taxes.....$19.07.

I can't believe how cheap these things are these days....another reason for the demise of CE






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I have a 7" Android 4.2 tablet, and I'm already tired of having to repeatedly use a file manager to close apps I stopped using a long time ago (hasn't anyone heard of an 'Exit' command?), and tired of it confusing swipes with taps. It's not as wonderful as it's been made out to be.

You get no argument out of me about how convoluted Android is...I agree. I love CE hands-down! But for the average person on the street with little or no knowledge of CE, all they have to choose from are various versions of Android tablets since nothing else is on the market. And the price...wow, what a driving factor.

I just don't see anyone else being able to compete...

Gotta admit I can't argue with that. I paid about 75 USD for mine, including a USB keyboard case.

Android would be better if it wasn't so locked down to a single UI. Other Linux distros give you the option, why not Google. The OpenPandora's desktop UI (XFCE) is nice but unfortunately the hardware is too geeky, too expensive, and not even close to mass production. I can see it as a good model for future devices but most companies don't see where the profit is, so there's no chance of that happening.

The closest we've got so far is some Android UMPCs that were made in limited quantities and to an extremely limited market. There's nothing now that fulfills all the requirements that were met, say, 10 years ago.