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Something that confuses a lot of people, including yours truly, is the WindowsCE/Windows Mobile deal… what’s the difference, are they the same, are keyboards involved?????

Well I’m not confused about this any more, due to an excellent explanation from Microsoft’s own Mike Hall on his Blog…

Windows Embedded CE is a hard real-time, componentized operating system that can be used by developers to build a wide range of embedded devices – you can think of the operating system as a box of Lego blocks, with CE 6.0 there are approximately 700 components (or Lego blocks) that make up the operating system, a developer gets to pick and choose which components or technologies they put into their embedded operating system design 

Windows CE gets released to two sets of customers, the general embedded developer (who builds cow milking machines, sewing machines, industrial robots, set top boxes, and a range of other cool devices) and "Microsoft internal" customers (Windows Automotive, Windows Mobile, others).

The Windows Mobile team choose their own specific set of Lego blocks (operating system components), add their custom shell, applications (like Office Mobile), and device specific technologies

It certainly makes for an interesting and informative read. Read the full article here

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