It is clear that Windows CE has finally reached the end of support after 26 years
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Microsoft has announced that it will end support for 'Windows Embedded Compact 2013' on October 10, 2023. This Windows Embedded Compact 2013 is a product corresponding to version 8 of Windows CE developed for mobile terminals, and after 26 years, the curtain has finally come down on the history of Windows CE.
Ending Support in 2023 - Microsoft Lifecycle | Microsoft Learn
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/end-of-support/end-of-support-2023
Windows CE reaches end of life, if not end of sales • The Register
https://www.theregister.com/2023/10/30/windows_ce_reaches_eol/
If you look at the end of support announcement page published by Microsoft, it says that support for ``Windows Embedded Compact 2013'' will end on October 10, 2023. This Windows Embedded Compact 2013 supports x86 architecture and Armv7T2 architecture, and integrates NET Compact Framework 3.9 and Visual Studio 2012/2013/2015, and when it was released in 2013, it announced that 'support will end in 2023'. It was also announced that.
Windows CE, a 32-bit OS for embedded devices, was released in November 1996, immediately after the commercial OS
According to HPC:Factor , a Windows CE user community, development of Windows CE originally started with the code name 'Windows Pegasus'. In this development, it was stipulated that the device to be operated must meet the following conditions.
・Small machine not exceeding the size of 18cm x 10cm x 2.5cm
- Operates on 2 AA batteries
・Weight is less than 500g
-Equipped with standard QWERTY keyboard including Ctrl, Alt, and Shift keys
・Equipped with a 480 x 240 pixel LCD touch screen display with 2 dpi and 4 levels of gray scale.
・Input using stylus pen
・Minimum 4MB ROM
・Minimum 2MB RAM
・Equipped with an infrared port compatible with Hewlett Packard Serial Infrared (HPSIR)
・Equipped with RS-232 serial port
・Equipped with PC card slot
・Equipped with built-in audio output device
Runs on SuperH 3 , MIPS R3000 , or MIPS R4000 processor architectures
From around 1996, small handheld computers , or personal digital assistants called PDAs, began to be produced, and Windows CE was used as the OS installed in these devices. Until the iPhone appeared as a touch display smartphone in 2007, Windows CE competed with Palm OS developed by Palm .
Since the iPhone appeared and Google announced Android in 2007 , the OS of mobile information terminals has become ``iOS (originally iPhone OS)'' or ``Android.'' Windows Phone 7 , which was released behind the scenes, was developed based on Windows CE and has been updated to version 7.8. The subsequent Windows Phone 8 was based on Windows 8's NT kernel and was a completely different OS.
Microsoft branded Windows Phone 7 and Windows Phone 8, which have different kernels, as 'Windows Phone' and marketed them to countries such as Central Europe, where smartphones were not yet widespread. However, Windows CE-based Windows Phone 7 machines, which were inexpensive but had sufficient specifications, could not be upgraded to Windows Phone 8. The IT news site The Register claims, ``This misguided branding strategy determined the fate of Windows CE.''
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