Pocket PC 2003's Support for XScale Confirmed!

The impression I got from Erick's posting (one that I quoted and others I didn't) was that they will create a version of OS for XScale so that I takes the advantage of new instructions that XScale provides which could boost some performance.

Apps written specifically for XScale won't run on ARMS processor because they will be using these new instructions... and these new instructions supposed to improve performance.

[merle]

Take a look at this. I'm still trying to figure out the relationship between Win CE .net and Pocket PC. I believe that Pocket PC 2002 is built on top of Win CE 3.0, but that they are not the same thing.

http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/0...ate.xml?s=IDGNS

Windows CE update set for mid-2003 release

By Sumner Lemon
January 13, 2003 5:23 am PT

TAIPEI, TAIWAN -- The next update to Microsoft's Windows CE .Net OS, which has been given the code name McKendric, will ship before the middle of 2003 and include several new features, a company executive said at the Microsoft Embedded DevCon 2003 conference being held here.

Expected to be called Windows CE .Net Version 4.2 when it hits the market later this year, McKendric offers several improvements over the current version of the OS, Windows CE .Net 4.1. It will incorporate new features, such as support for VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol), a firewall, and wireless networking support for residential gateways, said Chip Schnarel, group program manager for Windows CE OS development at Microsoft.
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Looking past McKendric, Microsoft is working on another version of Windows CE, called Macallan, that is expected to ship in 2004, Schnarel said, without discussing specific features of the future OS.

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This explains that Pocket PC 2000/2 are just shells that run on top of Windows CE. So I guess a new shell might need to be written before Windows CE 4.2 can be used on Pocket PCs.

http://216.239.39.100/search?q=cache:dD-4S...&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

[Forge]

EXCELLENT POST MERLE!

That was very informative. I've been trying to understand the link also since, in many articles I've read, CE and PPC are used interchangeably.

From reading the two, it certainly would seem that the release of CE still entails some work to get it to our Axims - both in terms of the shell as well as the tweaking that Dell may/will need to do to get it to work on our hardware.

Thanks again.

[jaja_75]

"Microsoft presents next version of mobile phone software for devices with touch screen : Pocket PC 2003 Phone Edition. The software will be based on Windows CE 4.2, compared to Windows CE 3.0 on which current Pocket PC 2002 Phone Edition is based."

Preview: Pocket PC 2003 Phone Edition
See succesor of Pocket PC 2002 Phone Edition for yourself!
http://msmobiles.com/article.php/31.html

[peterbright]

Any idea when the updates will be available?