Currently, there's a lot of hype around Android on ARM-based netbooks, a type of netbook arriving later this year. However, despite the obvious choice for Android and other Linux systems, NVIDIA has openly stated their preference for... Windows CE. ARM and Asus are also quite sceptical about Android on ARM netbooks.
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Member since:2006-01-03
Sorry Mr. Know All About CE, I thought you had no clue since you stated it ran Office, which is blatantly not true. It is not true either that they did not turn their back on Linux with Tegra. When they launched, all the web pages where carpeted with pictures of WCE software and written references and eulogies, while the word "Linux" failed to appear a single time, which was very unusual.
As a kernel, CE might be OK, although it is far from impressive. However, there is hardly any general-interest software of note that runs on it. Where CE is successful is in embedded industrial applications with graphical interfaces, custom apps for restricted markets. Oh, and the Windows Mobile ecosystem, which everybody around here, seemingly including you, agrees is a stinking pile of crap.
The non-WM GUI does look like W95, but is such an ugly and antiquated looking piece of software it is amazing you have the courage to defend it over and over. It looks like it has not been updated since far before 2000. Possibly nobody demands much from it, since practically all non WM apps for CE load on boot and take over the system, which is built to revolve around them.
The development system for CE is indeed very good, an makes it very easy to put a GUI in your custom device. That used to be much more difficult for Linux, which tended to own the market in non-gui industrial apps. With Android providing a more easily identifiable target, this is bound to change, though.
I have not modded you down, nor have any plans of doing so. Your victimism is laughable, though.
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2005-07-13
uggg, ok people stop posting about things you don't understand. First off, Nvidia is developing drivers for linux AND Android for the Tegra platform, they didn't turn their back on it. Secondly one of the reasons they are picking WinCE is due to the fact that it is tried and trusted. It has been around for a while and Nvidia knows what to expect. Android doesn't have that kind of existing track record due to it being fairly new. Also the waranty for WinCE from Microsoft is 10 years, 10 years! Anyone know what, if any, Android has? I don't know personally.
Here are the features of the WinCE OS: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb158484.aspx
Here is it's printing suport and driver that is included for USB printers (since some people don't think it can at all): http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa929632.aspx
This is the standard shell that comes with CE and can be chosen when building your image. Note that it looks exactly like the desktop shell from 98 and ME: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb905634.aspx
Or you can build your own, it's easy. Also QT is suported on WinCE so you could make a KDE style shell if you wanted: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc440279.aspx
I could go on all day and night about all its features and subsystems that are all execently documented and supported, but I won't. As is I keep getting modded down by people who have likely never don't any of this and just don't like my opinion. All I put up were facts, and that I like WinCE.
Also the mobile version of office is using the mobile shell, it can use the standard shell and then it becomes usable in a desktop style environment.
So I am sorry that I seem to have offended enough people with suported information information. I forgot that if you say anything in suport of an MS product you get obliterated by people who don't know any better. I am not bashing android or linux, I am just trying to explain why, a company with a lot of money riding on mobile offerenings, would want to possibly choose WinCE for their device.
So if you have expereince with WinCE on a build to order level and have done so, feel free to mod me down to 0 and beyond. But if your only experience is through end use of a Windows Mobile powered phone, please ACTUALLY research it a bit BEFORE giving your opinion on something that is not infact a custome built netbook tailered version of WinCE. Thanks.