Large software projects are invariably shipped later than expected. Operating systems are no exception to this rule, and a quick glance through The Mythical Man-Month will explain why. Thus it did not ...

It was a proto-netbook. It was a palmtop. It was a PDA. It was Windows Phone 7 but not Windows Phone 8, and then it was an embedded ghost. Its parents never seemed to know what to do with it after it ...

(Windows Consumer Electronics) Microsoft's earlier version of Windows for handheld devices and embedded systems that ran on x86, ARM, MIPS and SuperH CPUs. Introduced in 1996, Windows CE was renamed ...

As far back as the late '80s, Bill Gates has floated the idea of "Windows Everywhere." The idea, as you can probably guess, is to put a Windows operating system on any and all devices with a CPU ...

Sure, we just spent the last four or five years chiding Microsoft for its anachronistic Windows CE interface, a UI which was holding Windows Mobile back in a post-stylus world, but now that Windows ...

Every operating system places requirements on device drivers. Here's a quick tour of the Windows CE rulebook. Microsoft Windows CE is a modular and scalable operating system that supports a variety of ...

Finally, there are meaningful choices to be made again between computers. Those of you who remember the bloody wars among Apple, Cromemco and Atari (the computer, not the game machine) know what I ...

Microsoft Corp. last week announced an update to its Windows CE .Net embedded operating system that includes support for the latest IP networking technology and a new beta-test version of its .Net ...

connected and small-footprint devices. Gates introduced a new low-cost license, Windows CE .NET 4.2 Core, with an estimated retail price (ERP) of $3 (U.S.). This new low-cost offering enables device ...

Microsoft has ended support for Windows CE, an operating system you probably thought was already dead, if you knew it had ever existed in the first place. Initially developed to bring a simple ...

[Remy van Elst] found an obsolete bike navigation system, the Navman Bike 1000, in a thrift store for €10. The device was a rebadged Mio Cyclo 200 from 2015. Can a decade-old GPS be useful? Well, the ...