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They simply don't know what to do with embedded. They had a great push in the early 2000's. I started on CE 4.0, delivered products on 4.1, 5.0 and now Windows Embedded Compact 7. Very solid platform.
That said, they had this great idea with .net 2.0 and then later versions to be brought to CE. They made commitments to the developer base, and then abandoned .net support. To say the developer meetings were heated is an understatement. Along about this time, the little company called google started bringing Android to market. The rest is history.
Pulled defeat from the jaws of victory.
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And as a side note, what the hell is wrong with Microsoft and their anal desire to constantly rename products?
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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Embedded?
You mean their entire Windows NT based OSs (XP, Win7), with a handful of UI components removed?
Well, you could call them embedded, if you had something the size of a desktop to embed them in! 
Or do you mean the weird latest IoT embedded, that run on linux?
I havent seen the former for quite a while, I guess it died. As for the latter it seems to live in the 'Windows IoT' stable, along with what is left of CE and Windows 10 (or 11 as it should be called).
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More like the embedded world abandoned MS.
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gave up more like it.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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AFAIK there is Windows 10 LTSB (which is by the way the platform I'm writing from).
Windows didn't change, it's a while that even the GUI is "optional"... the only change is that there's no Cortana nor Windows Store on LTSB and some components are wonkier than usual.
GCS d-- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Quote: some components are wonkier than usual
OK so no change there then!
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Not quite what you mean, but I'm currently working on a project that's PIC18 (4k ram. OS? LOLWUT!!) on the backend, and UWP on the front.
Other options had been considered for the embedded part including an RPi or some other ARM board running both halves, but time to market requirements on our clients part meant there wasn't time to switch to a new hardware architecture.
Other than needing to add a work queue to avoid race conditions decoding messages when the board is being extra chatty I was able to use the UWP serial IO sample more or less out of the box. Other than being limited to FTDI chips (so no hardware COM port support) the UWP RS232 library has worked great out of the box. After the utter farce that was their implementation in the main .net framework they've apparently managed to get it right this time.
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Hm, as an old time (since the 70's) embedded engineer, I've never used a Microsoft embedded OS. By the time CE came out I was already familiar with multiple RTOSes and CE was really lacking compared to the RTOSes I'd used. The CE display side was ok though since the RTOSes I used didn't have any display features built into the RTOS itself. Display for the RTOSes (if any) were in a separate library/module. However, in all my years of embedded development, I've never worked on a device that had a built in display so I never bothered to look at CE. Heck, the device I'm developing for now has, to me, lots of RAM (256k) and FLASH (1Mb). From what I remember of the old Windows CE and and Windows Embedded, it's not going to fit (compact version required 1Mb of RAM) and I'm betting their new IoT system isn't going to fit either. So to finalize, in my 'embedded' world, Microsoft was never in the race.
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Hololens runs its own version of Windows 10 that just recently got an update; which included specific device usability enhancements.
"(I) am amazed to see myself here rather than there ... now rather than then".
― Blaise Pascal
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They used to think it was the soul coming out of your nose, but now we know it snot.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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boogered
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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Mucus be kidding! You've really blown it this time - perhaps it is some tissue you have with nostrils? I think I'll just drip the subject.
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One of those guys that nose-it-all!
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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I'm still awaiting the coming of the Great Green Arkleseizure.
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Quote: In the beginning was the Creation of the Universe. This has made a lot of people angry, and has been widely regarded as a bad move.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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what's the difference between broccoli and snot?
This internet thing is amazing! Letting people use it: worst idea ever!
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Lopatir wrote: what's the difference between broccoli and snot?
Kids will actually eat snot? 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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I sure hope no one ever sends you out for some broccoli.
(In the case of Okra, there is no difference).
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Bless you anyway. 
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A mucus joke is snot funny.
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I was looking for a game called "Honger of Erosie", and found Food Force Game - Download and Play Free Version![^].
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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It all went downhill when I sawQuote: Designed by the United Nations
So it'll be weak and feeble, but thinks it's doing something important then.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OriginalGriff wrote: So it'll be weak and feeble, but thinks it's doing something important then.
It is used in schools, by their own claim
Educational software; it's not like it is a giant ad for WFP filled with their logo, no it actually teaches kids stuff. Like how it is important to find out what hungry refugees need before acting and changing a tire by turning the wrench with the LMB
Also the game states that it costs 19ct per day to feed a kid. That means one normal hamburger per week at MacDonalds should be plenty.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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