Thursday, September 21, 2006
Windows CE 6.0 Released To Manufacturers
Posted by Ed Hansberry in "NEWS" @ 04:00 AM
http://blogs.msdn.com/mikehall/archive/2006/09/17/760076.aspx
Windows CE is the underpinning of Windows Mobile. Microsoft has just released 6.0 to their OEM partners, and I am sure the Windows Mobile group has had a few of the betas to play with and are ready to incorporate it into an upcoming Windows Mobile release. New features include:
• Support for 32,768 processes in 2GB of memory. Current versions support 32 processes in 32MB of virtual memory. No more running out of memory with a lot of apps/processes/Today screen plugins starting at boot time.
• Operating system processes, like GWES, device driver manager and file system manager have been moved to the kernel, which should improve performance.
• New user mode and kernel mode driver model. Previous versions only supported user mode drivers.
I don't know when CE 6 will make it to the core of Windows Mobile. Pocket PC 2000 had CE 2.x under the hood, Pocket PC 2002 had CE 3.x, both Windows Mobile 2003 and 2003SE had 4.x and Windows Mobile 5 has CE 5.
Windows CE is the underpinning of Windows Mobile. Microsoft has just released 6.0 to their OEM partners, and I am sure the Windows Mobile group has had a few of the betas to play with and are ready to incorporate it into an upcoming Windows Mobile release. New features include:
• Support for 32,768 processes in 2GB of memory. Current versions support 32 processes in 32MB of virtual memory. No more running out of memory with a lot of apps/processes/Today screen plugins starting at boot time.
• Operating system processes, like GWES, device driver manager and file system manager have been moved to the kernel, which should improve performance.
• New user mode and kernel mode driver model. Previous versions only supported user mode drivers.
I don't know when CE 6 will make it to the core of Windows Mobile. Pocket PC 2000 had CE 2.x under the hood, Pocket PC 2002 had CE 3.x, both Windows Mobile 2003 and 2003SE had 4.x and Windows Mobile 5 has CE 5.
