Monday, April 26, 2004
Windows CE 5.0 Preview
Posted by Ed Hansberry in "DEVELOPER" @ 03:00 PM
http://msdn.microsoft.com/embedded/prodinfo/future/techpreview/default.aspx
Pocket PCs are based on Windows CE. Pocket PC 2000 and 2002 were based on CE 3.0 and Pocket PC 2003/2003SE devices are based on CE 4.2. Microsoft is ready to launch Windows CE 5.0 and it is a good bet that the Mobile Device group at Microsoft has their hands on CE 5 right now.
Windows CE 5, which has been known as Macallan, has several improvements over CE 4.x.
• Increased Driver Support - device manufacturers can reduce their overall development time and costs with both a unified build and increased driver support.
• Mobile Direct3D - Macallan introduces COM-based Direct3D style programming model that is built on Microsoft DirectX® 8. This provides a smaller design of the Direct3D (D3D) API desktop implementation.
• Enhanced Security - With Macallan, we are continuing to build on all of the work done in previous versions of Windows CE. This includes additional network security optimizations to existing features, AES (Advanced Encryption Standard), FIPS 140-2 Level 1 certification, and Credential Manager enhancements for secure caching of credentials.
You can read more about it at the Windows CE Product Roadmap page and if you are a developer, you might want to get in on the preview. You'll need between 1.7GB and 14GB of hard drive space, including the Platform Builder tool set, depending on which options you install. 8O
Pocket PCs are based on Windows CE. Pocket PC 2000 and 2002 were based on CE 3.0 and Pocket PC 2003/2003SE devices are based on CE 4.2. Microsoft is ready to launch Windows CE 5.0 and it is a good bet that the Mobile Device group at Microsoft has their hands on CE 5 right now.
Windows CE 5, which has been known as Macallan, has several improvements over CE 4.x.
• Increased Driver Support - device manufacturers can reduce their overall development time and costs with both a unified build and increased driver support.
• Mobile Direct3D - Macallan introduces COM-based Direct3D style programming model that is built on Microsoft DirectX® 8. This provides a smaller design of the Direct3D (D3D) API desktop implementation.
• Enhanced Security - With Macallan, we are continuing to build on all of the work done in previous versions of Windows CE. This includes additional network security optimizations to existing features, AES (Advanced Encryption Standard), FIPS 140-2 Level 1 certification, and Credential Manager enhancements for secure caching of credentials.
You can read more about it at the Windows CE Product Roadmap page and if you are a developer, you might want to get in on the preview. You'll need between 1.7GB and 14GB of hard drive space, including the Platform Builder tool set, depending on which options you install. 8O
