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You are right, of course...

You are right, of course...

Posted Jan 23, 2009 22:16 UTC (Fri) by khim (subscriber, #9252)
In reply to: WinCE is not even Win98! by i3839
Parent article: Mobile Linux at linux.conf.au

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...


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