How is Windows Mobile related to Windows CE?

re: How is Windows Mobile related to Windows CE?

Windows Mobile ISV - Developer — Fri, 22 Apr 2005 20:25:22 GMT

It's not true that a "developer can rely on the features being present and operating in the expected way." The problem is that MS expects WM to be a standard platform, but still allows the OEMs to modify the sources. If it's meant to be a common experience like the desktop, why doesn't MS ship OEMs just the binaries like they do with the desktop? My dev team spends more than 50% of its time working on device-specific issues exactly because MS does NOT enforce a standard WM OS image. The "paper definition of required functionality" is often laughably ignored", but the OEMs still claim to ship "Windows Mobile." Windows CE should be the platform if the device developer wants to roll its own, and WM should be a standard platform for a consistent consumer exeprience.

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re: How is Windows Mobile related to Windows CE?

WM OEM Engineer — Thu, 28 Apr 2005 14:55:40 GMT

Actually, OEMs cannot modify the base WM image. There are logo tests that validate the OS components to ensure they have not changed from what MS released. If there is a mismatch, then the device does not recieve logo and therefore cannot be called a WM based device....

re: How is Windows Mobile related to Windows CE?

Scott Arnold — Thu, 28 Apr 2005 23:00:31 GMT

What about the early years of Windows CE?

From what I can tell, the finished Microsoft OS running on early handheld devices was called "Windows CE". This seems to be true for Windows CE versions 1.0 (nov 1996), 2.0 (late 1997), and 3.0 (June 2000). Windows CE isn't clearly a separate piece until Windows Mobile 2003 (June 2003). I've also found reference to a Windows CE 4.0 (March 2002) but have no idea what the OS was called that year.

I could be wrong about alot of this, as I have never given PDAs any thought until just recently when I needed to do some research on them for work. I'm just going by various sources I've found on the web (many of which could be inaccurate or misleading).

It's all very confusing.

re: How is Windows Mobile related to Windows CE?

Scott Arnold — Thu, 28 Apr 2005 23:07:33 GMT

Note that I was limiting my scope to PDAs, which for the Microsoft inspired platform is the Pocket PC. However, before Windows CE 3.0 they were called "Palm-sized PCs", and I am uncertain as to whether these would be considered PDAs.

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Smartnaute - Windows Mobile Smartphone au quotidien — Tue, 03 May 2005 21:22:02 GMT

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re: How is Windows Mobile related to Windows CE?

marcpe — Wed, 04 May 2005 17:59:57 GMT

I have posted my answers to these comments here:
https://blogs.msdn.com/marcpe/archive/2005/05/04/414644.aspx

Marcus

re: How is Windows Mobile related to Windows CE?

Neelam — Mon, 27 Mar 2006 12:04:36 GMT

I am new to this site. But after going through this i found it useful and thought of posting my query here.

I am currently working on Image Update feature provided by Windoes Mobile. Has anybody tried applying packages to the WM OS image? I tried that by writing the package name in the menifest file (pkgs.lst) along with the image name. The image gets downloaded to the NAND Flash on the device but package copying gives me error.

Please let me know if somebody has any experience with packages.

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zfyhhp — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 09:23:45 GMT

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Marcus Perryman's WebLog : How is Windows Mobile Related to Windows CE (2)

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