MEDC 2006 Day Two - Windows CE 6, Surprise!!
Tuesday May 9th 2006, today is the first 'official' day of the Mobile and Embedded Developers Conference 2006 - The day started with a keynote given by Pieter Knook (Senior VP, Microsoft) and Todd Warren (VP, Microsoft), and the demo monkeys, Dave Karle (Windows Mobile), Colin Miller (.NET Micro Framework), and some Windows Embedded guy covering Windows CE 6, Windows XP Embedded, and Windows Embedded for Point of Service.
The keynote demos all worked perfectly, the keynote ran long by only a couple of minutes, perhaps a first for a Microsoft event!. What was the news in the keynote? - The big news is the release of the Windows CE 6 Beta to attendees at MEDC, a first look at the new tools, and some of the kernel changes within Windows CE.
Windows CE 5.0 and earlier versions of Windows CE were limited to running a maximum of 32 processes at one time, and each process can access 32MB of virtual memory. With Windows CE 6 the o/s now supports 32K processes!!!! and each process now runs in a 2GB virtual address space!!!! - Now that ROCKS!
But wait... there's more... Platform Builder now becomes a plug in to Visual Studio 2005 - this means that you now have one place to go to cofigure your operating system image, one place to build, test, and debug your operating system, and the same place to write your desktop, Windows Mobile, and Windows CE applictions! - now that's extremely cool, do I hear a "Woot!" ?
It's interesting to see that this news has made it over to /. (Slashdot) - what's even more interesting is reading the comments - how are people confused between Windows CE and Windows Mobile ? - I don't get it. This is NOT a new Windows Mobile release.
BTW - I've posted more photo's from todays keynote to the MEDC 2006 Flickr site - https://www.flickr.com/photos/medc2006team
Also, we've recorded a number of video interviews across MEDC, I expect these to be posted to the RSS feed later today - more to come from the Ask the Experts session later this evening.
- Mike
Comments
Anonymous
May 09, 2006
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It's interesting to see that this news has made it over to /. (Slashdot) - what's even more interesting is reading the comments - how are people confused between Windows CE and Windows Mobile ? - I don't get it. This is NOT a new Windows Mobile release.
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Errr.. Maybe because our messaging on our embedded technologies is incredibly confusing?
Heck, util a year ago or so, I confused the two things all the time. And I read about it quite often.Anonymous
May 09, 2006
you don't get a woot on pb in vs2005, because you have a huge anti-woot for allowing (forcing) bsquare to fork the tree in the first place.
fixing dev tools that should never have been broken in the first place does not count as innovationAnonymous
May 09, 2006
You didn't expect those answers, did you?
Time to defend yourself.Anonymous
May 09, 2006
Quoated from article referenced by /.,
http://windowsfordevices.com/news/NS9022042332.html
"Mukund Ghangurde, Microsoft's Group Product Manager for Windows Embedded, told WindowsForDevices that the "redesigned kernel" expands the number of simultaneous processes from 32 to 32,000, while enlarging the virtual memory that is addressable by each process from 64MB to 2GB."
64MB per process ???
Best Regards,Anonymous
May 10, 2006
So what's the non-confusing answer to what CE means? Cellphone Edition?Anonymous
May 10, 2006
Hm, interesting about that processes number and addressing space per process, I thought it's already done in WCE 5.0 kernel...
Mike, do you know why wasn't it done in WCE 5.0 kernel?
To zzz: CE is abbrevation of nothing. See http://www.hpcfactor.com/support/windowsceAnonymous
May 10, 2006
Tuesday's big event was the keynote given by Peter Knook, Senior VP, Mobile and Embedded Devices Division.&nbsp;...Anonymous
May 10, 2006
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May 10, 2006
So how do we get a copy of version 6? (I just received an eval copy of version 5 last week)...Anonymous
May 10, 2006
The only way (right now) to get the Beta of Windows CE 6 is to attend one of the MEDC events across the world.
- MikeAnonymous
May 10, 2006
Mukunds comments about 64MB VM per process is because slot 0 is the current running process (32MB) and slot 1 is for DLL's (also 32MB), the combination gives 64MB.
- MikeAnonymous
May 16, 2006
Just checked Mike’s post about the announcement of Windows CE 6.0 at MEDC. He says:
It's interesting...Anonymous
May 16, 2006
"So what's the non-confusing answer to what CE means? Cellphone Edition?"
Though I don't think MS has ever officially said so, I'd say it stands for "Consumer Electronics." Many times I've read articles and such where they use the terminology "consumer electronics" and also discuss Windows CE.
Though today, it is useful for more than consumer electronics, for example robots, gas pumps, etc. But the original versions of CE were primarily for the handheld PC, palm-sized PC, and auto PC.Anonymous
May 16, 2006
While it's true that the first devices that shipped on Windows CE were the PC Companion (also known as the handheld PC) the operating system was designed from day one to be a small footprint, componentized operating system that ran on multiple processor cores.
Over the years new processor architectures have been supported by the O/S (ARM/StrongARM/xScale for example), and new technologies have also been added - the operating system is still a small footprint, real-time, componentized operating system - in many respects you could consider the o/s to be suitable for a wide range of embedded solutions ranging from medical, retail, consumer electronics, robotics, and so on.
- MikeAnonymous
May 04, 2009
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