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You're pretty much correct, but some slight variations on your Handheld PC comment. Just to note, the "Handheld PC" (aka H/PC) was the "widescreen" clam-shell with a keyboard.....like a mini-laptop.
Windows CE 1.0 was released for the H/PC, and was basically just a scaled-down version of Windows 95. Not too many manufacturers implemented CE 1.0, and CE 2.0 was released less than a year later to replace it.
So Windows CE 2.0 came along, also for the H/PC, and was Microsoft's first "accepted" PDA OS. It was also made with similar functionality to Windows 95, to keep it user-friendly. The main advantages to CE 2.0 over CE 1.0 was it's ability to run on both half-VGA and full-VGA screens, as well as it's increased communications support. This was also the version that began support for the common MIPS, SH3, and StrongARM processors.
Windows CE 2.1 was the first version of CE to be released for "Palm PCs", but due to legal reasons the name was changed to "Palm-Sized PCs". It was sometimes referred to as "Pocket PC", but to my knowledge this wasn't an official Microsoft name for it.
Windows CE 3.0 was the next to come along. Within a month of the core release, we saw the HPC2000 (Handheld PC 2000) OS and PPC2000 (Pocket PC 2000) OS emerge.
This remained for about a year, until the PPC2002 (Pocket PC 2002) OS was released. PPC2002 was still built on the Windows CE 3.0 Core. The following year, Microsoft released the Smartphone 2002 OS, also on the Windows CE 3.0 Core.
Next the Windows CE 4.0 Core was released to developers, then the CE 4.1 Core, and finally the CE 4.2 Core. This past June (2003), Microsoft released the WM2003 (Windows Mobile 2003) OS which was built on the Windows CE 4.2 Core. Some users unofficially refer to it as PPC2003 (Pocket PC 2003).
Windows CE 5.0 Core (code-named Macallan) is rumored to have a release set for sometime in 2004.
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