Tuesday, July 30, 2002
Windows CE.NET 4.1 ships
Posted by Ed Hansberry in "NEWS" @ 12:00 PM
http://news.com.com/2100-1040-947180.html?tag=fd_top
As we told you yesterday, there were some updates announced to the Windows CE.NET platform this morning. Some of these items will be familiar to you. We told you about several items nearly a month ago. They are actually calling this Windows CE.NET 4.1, so it isn't minor bug fixes. I am pretty sure this is the project formerly code named Jameson.
Here are the highlights:
• Native document viewers for Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Adobe Acrobat, GIF, BMP and JPG files
• IPv6
• Support for speech recognition
• Web browsing 15% faster than in CE.NET 4.0
• Windows Media Player is 20% faster than in CE.NET 4.0
The updated OS is available and shipping now. Remember that Pocket PCs are based on the Windows CE 3.0 platform, the predecessor to Windows CE.NET. I don't know when a Pocket PC will be released with CE.NET underneath though, or if it will be CE.NET 4.0, 4.1 or Macallan, also known as CE 5.0. Macallan is supposed to ship in early 2003. Both CE.NET and Windows CE 3.0 have features not supported by the Pocket PC, so just because you see it in the list above doesn't mean your new iPAQ 5000 will support it, but we can hope!
Thanks for all those that sent in the links to this and similar articles.
As we told you yesterday, there were some updates announced to the Windows CE.NET platform this morning. Some of these items will be familiar to you. We told you about several items nearly a month ago. They are actually calling this Windows CE.NET 4.1, so it isn't minor bug fixes. I am pretty sure this is the project formerly code named Jameson.
Here are the highlights:
• Native document viewers for Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Adobe Acrobat, GIF, BMP and JPG files
• IPv6
• Support for speech recognition
• Web browsing 15% faster than in CE.NET 4.0
• Windows Media Player is 20% faster than in CE.NET 4.0
The updated OS is available and shipping now. Remember that Pocket PCs are based on the Windows CE 3.0 platform, the predecessor to Windows CE.NET. I don't know when a Pocket PC will be released with CE.NET underneath though, or if it will be CE.NET 4.0, 4.1 or Macallan, also known as CE 5.0. Macallan is supposed to ship in early 2003. Both CE.NET and Windows CE 3.0 have features not supported by the Pocket PC, so just because you see it in the list above doesn't mean your new iPAQ 5000 will support it, but we can hope!
Thanks for all those that sent in the links to this and similar articles.
