Actually, Crossbow will be released Q4 this year, but probably won't ship on units until 2007. And Crossbow will just be an incremental OS update like WM2003 SE.
The next major WM OS will be
Photon, which should be the first WM OS based on Windows CE 6.0. It is not expected to be shipped on units until the beginning of 2008. The following is from a presentation at Microsoft Tech Days '06 held March 23 to 26, 2006, in Switzerland; it was originally quoted on these forums 2 months ago by
LocutusBorgMan:
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Photon Wave: Photon is a very strategic release for Microsoft. The vision of a unified platform, modular architecture, and a customizable user interface are all focused on enabling our OEMs to deliver a wider range of differentiated products to meet the unique needs of target market segments. As we considered the scope of the Photon release, the Crossbow schedule and goal of the long term roadmap, it was clear that adjusting the Photon schedule was also necessary. We, therefore, plan to make Photon available to OEMs in Q4 2007, to start the commercialization process. This adjustment should help enable OEMs to ship Crossbow devices throughout 2007 and provide necessary time to commercialize Photon devices for a 2008 release. This adjustment should also help enable us to base Photon on the next major release of Windows CE (“Yamazaki”). “Yamazaki” will provide an improved kernel, a new security model, and a number of other enhanced features.
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