27 Aug
2000
27 Aug
'00
11 p.m.
What the hell is Windows ME? Windows MistakE? FWIW
Windows CE is now
offically dead. I guess Billy Boy is going to try and pull another fast one
on us and try to convince us that now we need to spend more money and buy
his new and improved OS.
CE is not dead (trust me, every day I test software for it at work).
Microsoft's Web site also mentions that CE 3.0 just became available.
If you are talking about that "PC Powered" hoopla, that was a slimy
marketing move (picking a new name for the same old stuff -- MS is very fond
of that maneuver). It was not a slimy engineering move, which would have
been much worse. Microsoft seems to have decided that it was a bad idea
because I don't think they're using the term these days. They probably want
people to forget it ever happened.
They _do_ have something called NT Embedded but I don't know anything about
it (my company works with it, but it's a different part of the company).
-- Derek