Mike Temporale
09-21-2006, 04:45 PM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://blogs.msdn.com/mikehall/archive/2006/09/17/760076.aspx' target='_blank'>http://blogs.msdn.com/mikehall/archive/2006/09/17/760076.aspx</a><br /><br /></div>Windows CE 6.0 has been officially released to manufacturing. That means that it's code complete and ready to build upon. Windows CE is used in a number of different embedded devices, including the Windows Mobile. Our current batch of Windows Mobile 5 devices are based on Windows CE 5. There is a very good chance that future versions of Windows Mobile will be based of CE 6.0. So, what's new in the lastest release? I'll let Mike Hall's words outline the latest features: CE 6.0 now supports upto 32k processes with 2GB virtual memory per process (CE 5.0 supported a maximum of 32 processes with 32MB Virtual Memory per process) <br /> Operating system processes moved to kernel space (GWES, Device driver manager, file system manager are all in kernel space - improves performance) <br /> New Kernel mode and user mode driver model (CE 5.0 only supported user mode drivers) - kernel mode drivers for performance, user mode drivers for stability - plus you can now have multiple instances of the user mode driver manager (hey, you have upto 32k processes!) <br /> Strict partitioning of user mode and kernel mode (no SetKMode!)