Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 26th Jun 2006 18:37 UTC, submitted by anonymous
PDAs, Cellphones, Wireless 30 student development teams from seven countries converged on Microsoft's campus June 23-25, to compete in the third annual Windows Embedded Student ChallengE based on the theme, "Preserving, protecting, and enhancing the environment." Five winning teams collectively were awarded $24000 in cash. The entries included some clever ideas (listed in the article).
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i participated
by asabil on Mon 26th Jun 2006 19:47 UTC
asabil
Member since:
2006-03-03

i participated to this stupid competition : 1 sentence : "winCE is not yet ready for the embedded"

RE: i participated
by tomcat on Tue 27th Jun 2006 02:49 in reply to "i participated"
tomcat Member since:
2006-01-06

i participated to this stupid competition : 1 sentence : "winCE is not yet ready for the embedded"

I was very surprised to learn that Windows CE is the market leader in embedded operating systems. So, clearly, somebody thinks that it's ready for the embedded market. ;-)


http://www.internetnews.com/ent-news/article.php/3435501

http://www.windowsfordevices.com/news/NS2332906960.html

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RE[2]: i participated
by asabil on Tue 27th Jun 2006 05:23 in reply to "RE: i participated"
asabil Member since:
2006-03-03

The leader in pda is windows CE.
the leader in embedded systems is windriver vxworks.

don't mix the two

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RE: i participated
by Bit_Rapist on Tue 27th Jun 2006 03:49 in reply to "i participated"
Bit_Rapist Member since:
2005-11-13

i participated to this stupid competition : 1 sentence : "winCE is not yet ready for the embedded"

So your inability to code for the platform means its not ready for the embedded market?

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RE[2]: i participated
by asabil on Tue 27th Jun 2006 05:21 in reply to "RE: i participated"
asabil Member since:
2006-03-03

... thank you very much

It's far from being my inability to code, that system is very limited for example you cannot run more than 32 process... there is no remote desktop facility for debugging on a headless machine (except a stupid program that takes screenshots every 500ms and send them throught network)

You cannot develop for that platform unless you use microsoft tools, otherwise it's unusable.

So please stop saying non-sense, i personally think that this system is made for those generations of visual basic programmers... And I preper working on wxworks or ecos.

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