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Windows CE wasn’t renamed and rebuilt as PocketPC: PocketPC was a variant.
WinCE could be used in a whole range of different configurations, ranging from a headless and extremely light OS burnt into an appliance all the way up to thin clients, tablets and ‘Handheld PCs’ (as Microsoft called them - we’d call them netbooks now).
One particular configuration was of a PDA-style device. WinCE in this configuration, along with some additional applications from Microsoft, was called PocketPC. Getting a license for WinCE didn’t get you the extra goodies PocketPC had, and licensing PocketPC didn’t get you support for all the other stuff that WinCE had. A superset of a subset, if you will.
(Microsoft later augmented all of this by offering Windows XP Embedded, which was sort of a [much] bigger brother to WinCE, but had the advantage that it could run the same applications - dependencies allowing - as a normal copy of XP, though only on x86, and with much higher storage and RAM requirements than WinCE).
Comment by Mo — Thursday 4 February 2010 @ 1:56 pm
I still occasionally miss the Psion 5MX - it was well ahead of its time, the keyboard / clam shell design was great. It had banking via a Lloyds Electronic Chequbook too - anyone remember that?
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/06/26/psion_special/ is worth a read.
Comment by Allan Edwards — Thursday 4 February 2010 @ 2:05 pm