“I’m going to do Windows and then I’m going to do Windows Mobile and I’m going to do Windows embedded.” (all on intel x86)
As someone who worked on Windows Mobile and Windows Embedded, it's funny because that's what management was hoping, but it was so different. I don't think any of the phones had an x86 chip in them, although that was our debugging setup so we could use vastly more powerful desktop machines as devkits (although we still had devices to). Having to port parts of Windows to ARM and even MIPS was a giant PITA.
Windows Embedded is closer since it was based on XP, but also a completely different branch from what I remember from Win Mobile.
A lot of people think it's easy to port things, and hard to write things. With really, really complicated software, it's still really hard just to port things.
“I’m going to do Windows and then I’m going to do Windows Mobile and I’m going to do Windows embedded.” (all on intel x86)
As someone who worked on Windows Mobile and Windows Embedded, it's funny because that's what management was hoping, but it was so different. I don't think any of the phones had an x86 chip in them, although that was our debugging setup so we could use vastly more powerful desktop machines as devkits (although we still had devices to). Having to port parts of Windows to ARM and even MIPS was a giant PITA.
Windows Embedded is closer since it was based on XP, but also a completely different branch from what I remember from Win Mobile.
A lot of people think it's easy to port things, and hard to write things. With really, really complicated software, it's still really hard just to port things.