Roadmap for Windows mobile devices that are not primarily phones

Factual Questions
1

Windows Mobile is a popular OS for non-phone devices such as data capture terminals. At present, all of the offerings on the market seem to top out at v6.5.

As I understand it. Windows Mobile 7 is quite a phone-centric OS, and is a different animal to those in the Windows CE stable.

So what’s the roadmap for data capture terminals in future? I presume WM6.5 won’t stay around for ever without stagnation. Is there a business/corporate/utility build of WM7?

2

Windows Mobile is dead and good riddance. Windows Embedded Compact is the CE-based successor to WM. Windows Phone 7 is also based on Windows CE but with a different user interface on top of it.

3

Thanks for that (and I agree with the sentiment). I didn’t realise Phone 7 was CE-based - thought they’d re-engineered the whole architecture. That’s interesting…

4

welp, CE is the underlying kernel and system bits; the stuff on top (user interface APIs and the like) are all new. for all intents and purposes, from a user standpoint they pretty much did re-engineer the whole thing.

ETA: and to confuse things further, Windows Embedded Standard is not based on CE, rather it’s a version of XP that can be stripped apart into components based on what the implementer needs.