“The software giant on Tuesday announced a new version of its Windows CE .Net operating system, adding broader support for its .Net services from within Windows CE, a slimmed down version of Windows used to power devices ranging from handheld computers to gas pumps.” Report is at ZDNews.
Putting a Little More .Net in WindowsCE .Net
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What is the deal with WinCE .NET? This article certainly didn’t make it clear.
Thus far, MS has market WinCE .NET as simply the next version of WinCE, with nothing really related to the .NET CLR/CLI system. Will it have run IL executables? Willl binaries- employing some subset of full, desktop IL byecode- be cross-platform across WinCE .NET devices with diverse CPUs? Or better yet, will it be binary compatible with IL binaries on the desktop, provided it uses only a subset of the APIs? Will there be the same benefits as .NET on the desktop on WinCE .NET? Or will eVB be more like VB.NET? With they switch from eVC++ to eVC# or embedded Managed C++?
Or is it just WinCE .NET 4.0, still using eVC++ and eVB as the primary development tools?
All this article talks about is WinCE .NET devices being a little bit faster, and having access to .NET services. That doesn’t mean anything- I already have access to the .NET services they mention in this article on my iBook running Linux and my Jornada 720.
C’mon MS, if you’re going to call it .NET, at least make it do somethings that .NET does. If you jsut want a stupid name, call it WinCE XP! It’ll confuse everyone even more.
Does anoyne here know?
Aaron
the hand held device is a winCE.NET device…so basicly it will have a .NET VM in it and probably use freestyle for the interface and Mira for the media.
That doesn’t mean anything- I already have access to the .NET services they mention in this article on my iBook running Linux and my Jornada 720.
The .NET services you speak of is not completely available to normal users now. The only thing available now is Passport. And besides, I think you are confusing MSN and .NET.
Besides, Windows CE .NET was name that way because it has a .NET Embedded Framework (name?) implementation built it, the same reason why Windows .NET Server is name that way too. Windows XP doesn’t have .NET Framework built in, and as long DOJ keep listening to that sourgrape called Sun, it would probably never happen.
the hand held device is a winCE.NET device…so basicly it will have a .NET VM in it and probably use freestyle for the interface and Mira for the media.
FreeStyle is a different thing altogether. It is a different version of Windows XP. Mira is something that would be built into Windows XP that enables you to pick up our CRT monitor (okay, okay, LCD monitor) go anywhere in your house, and still able to use it from the monitor via touch screen and hand writing recognition.
The interface would be little different from PocketPC, and Mira itself is based a lot of Pocket PC technology.
MS was going touse for there Embeded OS and Keiosks.
hmmm…well I would think that they would make a freestyleCE or somthing…it is a good solution for a PocketPC.
The .NET services you speak of is not completely available to normal users now. The only thing available now is Passport. And besides, I think you are confusing MSN and .NET.
No, I know what .NET is. The article talks about having access to MSN Messanger and Passport, both of which I can do now, and accessing do not depend on what we consider .NET for the desktop. Actually read the article and you’ll know what I mean.
Besides, Windows CE .NET was name that way because it has a .NET Embedded Framework (name?) implementation built it, the same reason why Windows .NET Server is name that way too.
That’s what I wanted to know. In none of the articles (that I’ve seen) do they talk about the version of the .NET framework that is apart of WinCE .NET, just that there will be access to web services now. Do you have any hard knowledge/links about what .NET Embedded is composed of?
Aaron
hmmm…well I would think that they would make a freestyleCE or somthing…it is a good solution for a PocketPC.
FreeStyle was mainly made for TVs, not PDAs.
No, I know what .NET is. The article talks about having access to MSN Messanger and Passport, both of which I can do now, and accessing do not depend on what we consider .NET for the desktop. Actually read the article and you’ll know what I mean.
The article was wrong :p. .NET isn’t MSN Messenger, though Passport is under .NET. Besides, I think you could get more info on the version of .NET CLR used in WinCe at MSDN or somewhere on Microsoft’s site. It is basically the same way J2ME is to J2SE.