Up until now, we'd heard and believed that Windows Phone 7 would be based on Microsoft's time-tested Windows CE 6 kernel -- aging, yes, but still considerably newer and more technically modern than ...

In case anyone might think the Microsoft Research project codenamed Menlo could end up derailing Microsoft's current practice of using Windows CE/Windows Embedded Compact as the core of Microsoft's ...

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 ...

ATMs were a joke. They were running NT4 in 2005 still because the financial industry is so allergic to change. Who am I kidding they’re still probably running it. I always thought the concept of ...

Since its inception as an operating system for embedded and small-footprint information devices, Windows CE has evolved into its present, fourth-generation incarnation: CE.Net. The new version, which ...

It's easy to forget -- as Microsoft wants you to -- that the Windows Mobile operating system is built on top of an embedded Windows CE core. Windows Mobile 6.5 seemingly is built on a customized ...

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 ...