Security issues - your system will not have an ability to patch new digital threats that appear on an annoyingly regular basis, so your devices and data will become increasingly vulnerable as time passes.The top three reasons why you shouldn’t use obsolete software are: But it will hardly be a beneficial practice. These significant disruptions to data systems will put numerous businesses at risk, including those in transportation and delivery, manufacturing, retail, warehouse and more.
It means that any company that continues using legacy OS versions on its devices will be unable to download new applications, ask for help in fixing bugs, and therefore will not provide full defense from viruses. However, Microsoft will stop releasing updates, security patches and any kind of support for this OS, which can negatively affect business processes. Devices running legacy software will continue to operate. Does It Mean That Devices Will Stop Working? VersionĪs you can see, Windows Embedded Handheld is living out its final days, while the Compact version still has some time. In the table below, you can find the end-of-life dates for several versions. The reason is that Microsoft is ending all types of support for Windows CE. Read also: SaM Solutions Earns Microsoft Silver Cloud Platform Competency Using hundreds of available components, developers can create a custom image of the operating system, which will include only the functionality necessary for a particular device. But the system supports only part of Win32 and is complemented by a specialized API for embedded solutions. This system was also the basis for Microsoft’s mobile platform, prior to WinPhone 8.Ī multitasking, multi-thread and multi-platform OS with real-time operations, WinCE supports Visual Studio and provides application developers with a set of APIs based on the standard Win32 API. However, most people still refer to it as WinCE. Later, it was renamed Windows Embedded CE and Windows Embedded Compact.
Note that these features listed here are not all specific to Windows Phone 7 or the Zune HD.Leverage our 28+ years of embedded and firmware development experienceĪ version of a desktop Microsoft Windows operating system, Windows CE (Consumer Electronics) was launched in 1996, aimed at handheld computers, industrial controllers, cable TV boxes, automobile PC and other embedded systems.
Infrastructure technology to manage multiple network interfaces on the deviceĪpplications to render Microsoft Office Word, PowerPoint, Excel and Adobe PDF content on the device Plug-in engine to enable natural input abilities such as four-point multi-touch, advanced gestures and complex 3D animations Has multi-touch panning and zooming abilities and a customizable interface to optimize the browsing experience on devicesīrowser plug in to render rich media websites not available in Windows Phone 7 CE 6.0 R3 includes the following new features and abilities:Ībilities brought to Windows Embedded CE to create rich applications and user interfaces Windows Embedded CE 6.0 R3 was finalized in September 2009 for OEMs and serves as the base platform for the Zune HD and Windows Phone 7. New Cellcore components to enable devices to easily make data connections and initiate voice calls through cellular networks.CE 6.0 is compatible with x86, ARM, SH4 (only up to R2) and MIPS based processor architectures.802.11i (WPA2) and 802.11e (QoS) wireless standards, and multiple radio support.Support for Microsoft's exFAT filesystem.Read-only support for UDF 2.5 filesystem.The Platform Builder IDE is integrated into Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 as plugin (thus forcing the client to obtain Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 also), allowing one development environment for both platform and application development.The 32 megabyte virtual memory limit has been raised to the total virtual memory up to 2 GB of private VM is available per process.The 32 process limit has been raised to 32,768 processes.New device driver model that supports both user mode and kernel mode drivers.The lower 2 GB is the process VM space and is private per process. The system components which now run in kernel have been converted from EXEs to DLLs, which get loaded into kernel space.Some system components (such as filesystem, GWES (graphics, windowing, events server), device driver manager) have been moved to the kernel space.