Comments on: Windows 7 for ARM? (Microsoft calls it Windows Embedded Compact 7…)

By: 3tarnish

3tarnish — Mon, 10 Jan 2022 18:00:56 +0000

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By: registrycleaner

registrycleaner — Sun, 24 Oct 2010 15:49:00 +0000

Windows CE is also disigned to run on different CPU architectures.

By: Best reg cleaner

Best reg cleaner — Sat, 16 Oct 2010 03:54:00 +0000

Many cell phone use Windows Embedded Compact as OS, it seems good.

By: Charbax

Charbax — Tue, 11 May 2010 23:04:56 +0000

In reply to Alex Taylor. Could there be some kind of binary conversion system which would allow developers to port their x86 Windows apps over to the Embedded Windows OS?

I understand none of the x86 .exe applications will install, I just wonder what will Microsoft try to do to make it a significant upgrade from previous Windows CE.

What do you mean by "shared source (i.e. you can access the code)", does that mean Windows Embedded Compact 7 is open-source, only Microsoft makes changes to it, and costs a licence to be used?

By: Alex Taylor

Alex Taylor — Tue, 11 May 2010 22:55:44 +0000

Hi Charbax,

Windows Embedded Compact 7 is a very distant relative to the Windows NT group, such as Windows 7, but has its own strengths and weaknesses compared to that. However there is zero application compatibility, so should be treated as a totally different OS!

Being based on Windows CE, it will largely be shared source (i.e. you can access the code, so there are few issues of hidden, private APIs that only MS can use) and your licence fee will has traditionally been somewhere between $3 and $20, depending on what applications you need and how many licences you buy.