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WinCE is not even Win98!WinCE is not even Win98!Posted Jan 22, 2009 10:13 UTC (Thu) by khim (subscriber, #9252)In reply to: WinCE runs on ARM by i3839 Parent article: Mobile Linux at linux.conf.au
Windows CE is totally different from desktop Windows! It has quite different API (there are common Win32 subset shared between Windows CE and Windows NT - but it's surprisingly small). Windows CE has ton of applications designed for PDAs and cellphones, but nothing for desktop. And it's kind of pointless to have Windows will all associated problems if you can't even use Windows applications!
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WinCE is not even Win98! Posted Jan 23, 2009 1:54 UTC (Fri) by i3839 (guest, #31386) [Link]
Windows CE might be crap and useless, but it's still MS Windows. Win98 doesn't run modern MS Windows apps either. Point being, some version runs on ARM. No idea how hard it is to port a modern version to ARM though, surely they got enough money and manpower to do it.
You are right, of course... Posted Jan 23, 2009 22:16 UTC (Fri) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link] Win98 doesn't run modern MS Windows apps either.And that's why systems capable of running Win98 are thrown away - there are more Linux systems then Win98 system in most countries! Some are not so modern and are still using Win98-capable stuff (Office XP, etc) - these are used. Where programs incompatible with Win98 are common - there are no Win98... Point being, some version runs on ARM. No idea how hard it is to port a modern version to ARM though, surely they got enough money and manpower to do it.They can port it to ARM but they can not port all the applications - and Windows without applications is useless...
WinCE is not even Win98! Posted Jan 29, 2009 21:42 UTC (Thu) by oak (subscriber, #2786) [Link]
> Windows CE has ton of applications designed for PDAs and cellphones, but
nothing for desktop.
I guess that's why some of the smaller laptops have WinCE with Vista.
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