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____/ Peter Köhlmann on Monday 08 June 2009 13:31 : \____
> chrisv wrote:
>
>> Homer wrote:
>>
>>>Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
>>>> Microsoft won't offer Windows for smartbooks
>>>
>>>No kidding.
>>>
>>>How many decades would it take them to port their unmanageable, tangled
>>>mess of spaghetti slop to another architecture? I mean, they couldn't
>>>even simply update XP to Vista properly on the /same/ architecture in
>>>the space of /six years/, so what hope would that bunch of Dilberts have
>>>of porting it to ARM?
>>>
>>>Of course, there's always that utterly dysfunctional PDA crap, "WINCE".
>>>
>>>LOL.
>>>
>>>I could believe they'd actually release WINCE for smartbooks ... after
>>>all, they were desperate enough to suggest a "Three App Limit" version
>>>of Vista7, so why not shovel their antiquated toy CE into smartbooks?
>>
>> What does "CE" mean? I thought of "Crapware Edition", but that would
>> be rather redundant...
>
> Originally it was "Compact Embedded"
They bought Danger. CE is neglected now and it may not have a future. Microsoft
lost a fortune in Windows Mobile (Mobile Unit) and its chief quit Microsoft
last year, escaping to Vodafone IIRC.
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