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An anonymous reader writes "WindowsForDevices has published a big article showcasing seventy-three consumer devices that were on display in Microsoft's device expo at the recent Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Each device runs Windows CE, Windows Mobile (Pocket PC, Smartphone, etc.), or Windows XP Embedded. A photo and brief description are provided for each. Some cool stuff!"
While everyone (here at least) would rather see *nix running on these devices, I'm none too suprised that Microsoft is pushing embeded Windows.
Their basic strategy from their inception has been to throw money at a problem untill someone finds a fix. Look at the X-Box (the lack of a Japanese market) or any number of their other projects.
Since Microsoft already has strong ties with most of the vendors, and plenty of money to throw at promoting embeded Windows, it only follows that they will continue to grow in that market.
"See you, space cowboy." -Spike
If you had read the link you posted you would have discovered that the BMW which trapped the minister in his car was a 520. Windows is in the BW 7 series so how was it possible for Windows to have trapped a person in a car without being the OS which controls these systems? Even on the BMW 7, Windows only controls the entertainment, climate, and security controls. If BMW crashes because of an OS problem, you won't be able to finger Windows. Nice try though.
I am about as big a Linux bigot as anyone, but give me a break. Can't you appreciate innovative devices or new ideas for their own sake? There are some cool devices there and for whatever reason windows CE got the design win.
BTW, I'm pretty much pissed at MS for the fact that I'm 3 hours into a cleaning of my employer dictated development platform right now because of MSIE vulnerabilities. But at least I can look at another engineers work and appreciate the appeal of their product without belittling it just because they didn't use my preferred OS.
The difference between a PocketPC Phone Edition and Smartphone is the later is phone first, pda second, the former is pda first, phone second. So do your research and buy the righ tool for the job.
Is it just me or are these predictable blue screen comments getting boring? I've been using NT4 > Windows 2000 > Windows XP > Windows 2003 for 6 or 7 years now, and I can recollect 4 or 5 blue screens, most of them on NT4 and in all cases running dodgy software. I don't know anyone who does get regular bluescreens on the NT kernel based windows.
I dual booted and installed Redhat 7.1 a few years back and got 2 kernel dumps in 2 days... sure, I probably did something wrong, but the machine was running windows fine.
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