http://www.osnews.com/story/24479/Microsoft_Releases_Windows_Embedded_Compact_7 Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2013, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Sun, 19 May 2013 04:59:16 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com http://www.osnews.com/thread?464451 http://www.osnews.com/thread?464451 http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=0a8709b... Tue, 01 Mar 2011 17:07:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (BloopFloop) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?464458 http://www.osnews.com/thread?464458 Added Tue, 01 Mar 2011 17:31:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Neolander) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?464459 http://www.osnews.com/thread?464459 It says it runs "Customized Win 32 Applications". It also says it runs on the ARM.

Would you have to recompile the code or doesit do some sort of emulation? Tue, 01 Mar 2011 17:33:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (kop316) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?464471 http://www.osnews.com/thread?464471 "the arm?" hehe so they have windows on watches now? =D Tue, 01 Mar 2011 18:49:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (judgen) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?464475 http://www.osnews.com/thread?464475 The Windows CE api is not 100% equal to what Win32 offers, since its tuned for small devices, hence the need to modify the application in some cases.

For example, in the early versions there were certain limits for the amount of running processes. Tue, 01 Mar 2011 19:27:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (moondevil) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?464481 http://www.osnews.com/thread?464481 If this could be tweaked to run on the Zune HD that would be really cool. Tue, 01 Mar 2011 20:04:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Ventajou) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?464494 http://www.osnews.com/thread?464494 I actually had a preview of this last thursday at one of Microsofts distribution partners.
One of the things that struck me as very odd was the fact that support for armv5 was not available before this version of windows embedded.
Apart from that it is interesting that more memory can be used in each process compared to CE6r3 and it was impressive to see the silverlight demonstrations. Tue, 01 Mar 2011 21:23:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (error32) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?464507 http://www.osnews.com/thread?464507 Not quite ... but you can have .NET...

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/TheNETMicroFrameworkHardwareForSoftwa... Wed, 02 Mar 2011 00:04:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (lucas_maximus) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?464517 http://www.osnews.com/thread?464517 The subset of Win32 that WinCE offers can be targeted to any of the supported platforms, but you would need to recompile the code. Wed, 02 Mar 2011 02:04:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (mappy) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?464748 http://www.osnews.com/thread?464748 In order to develop for this platform you are stuck with Microsoft's last generation of developer tools--Visual Studio 2008 and Expression Blend 3. I guess it's obvious that all the love went to Phone 7 (sensibly), but for a final platform release this is just ridiculous IMHO. You'd think it wouldn't be that hard to port over the Windows Phone 7 Silverlight 4 runtime.... Considering, it *is* essentially the *same platform*.Edited 2011-03-04 12:09 UTC Fri, 04 Mar 2011 12:07:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Moochman) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?464775 http://www.osnews.com/thread?464775 Here's a decent video of the product manager explaining the use cases:

http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/presskits/embedded/videoGallery....

He manages to sell it, but I still don't understand why MS isn't supporting Visual Studio 2010. The idea of having to install two versions of Visual Studio and/or two versions of Expression Blend in order to be able to simultaneously develop for Windows Phone 7 and Windows Embedded Compact is kind of ridiculous. Fri, 04 Mar 2011 18:38:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Moochman) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?464836 http://www.osnews.com/thread?464836 No it isnt. Silverlight for embedded and Silverlight as it stands on WP7 are two different beasts.

Silverlight for embedded allows you to essentially write XAML UIs and hook them up to events in C++, its really basic.

Silverlight for Windows Phone 7 includes the full .NET stack and supports full Silverlight 3 (+ a few more things).

Silverlight for embedded doesn't even support proper databinding.

This is mostly a tool for OEMs wishing to write their own shells over WinCE. Sun, 06 Mar 2011 00:27:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Nelson) Comments