Microsoft Preps New Version of Windows CE

Saw this headline and thought folks might be interested:

Microsoft Preps New Version of Windows CE

I wonder if it has any implications for HPCs?

The new Windows CE version is codename Cardhu, it's closed details have been known for a while.

Exciting times, but remember this is a core release not a platform.

I have no doubt that we will see it in some form or another on a clamshell style device, whether that is a WM6 or CE6 device remains to be seen. It's my view that the market can't support core OS release devices currently, so unless Microsoft pull a white rabbit from a hat with Cardhu, expect platforms.

I agree - platforms for the consumer. The core OS is used in a lot of things these days but most are not seen by the consumer.

Anyone else catch the fact that the announcement came on the tenth anniversary of the birth of Windows CE?

Windows CE's Birthday wasn't on May 9th 1996 though....

when was it? september? any exact dates?

November.

Let me clarify the above here too, Windows CE's birtday - i.e. the date it was finished isn't May 9th. It may have been announced to the public for the first time May 9th, but it wasn't born on May 9th.

Well, I quote the following article in WindowsForDevices.com cited by tenjeangosi in a similar thread:

http://windowsfordevices.com/news/NS9022042332.html

"Happy 10th birthday, Windows CE!

"Microsoft also noted that the May 9 release of Windows CE 6 comes on the tenth anniversary of the original introduction of the OS."





Edited by CE Geek 2006-05-11 3:41 AM

Well er, Microsoft's press library and public relations events archive disagrees

Well, what is indisputable is that that day (9 May 2006) is the first anniversary of my entry into cyberspace - the day I started receiving Internet service for the first time. (Soon thereafter, I began visiting a site called HPC:Factor on a regular basis.)

Edited by CE Geek 2006-05-12 4:41 AM

You only got Internet access 3 days ago?
My, you must have spammed this forum rotten to have gotten a 1155 post count in that time

I got on in the January/February of 1996, so we all share the same anniversary. You, me and CE.

internet? only 1999 here and even then i couldn't use it (only my brpther who ordered it), had to wait 1 year

Uh, read the post again. I said 9 May 2006 was the first anniversary. I've been online a year.

Not as amusing though

so if this is the 6th version of windows CE,will it look like other versions of windows CE?And when they release this version of CE,dose it mean that handheld PCs are back in style?(will they start mass producing them again)