Windows CE 5.0

Windows CE 5.0 - 32-bit operating system real time for the mobile and built-in systems. There is a support of processors ARM MIPS Hitachi SuperH, and x86.

Windows CE 5.0 for the first time is released on July 9, 2004.

Innovations

• Support of new drivers of devices
• The updated means of testing and service - Windows Error Reporting (the report on the errors Windows), expansion of functionality Windows CE Test Kit (a test set for Windows CE)
• Expanded multimedia functions – Direct3D Mobile for multimedia, game and other applications
• The increased security – forecasting of dangers, security settings by default, support of the AES standard (Advanced Encryption Standard – the expanded standard of enciphering)
• For Windows CE 5.0 Microsofts mitigated conditions of the license for the operating system source code extending within Shared Source initiative. So, developers will be able to distribute the modified versions of a system in commercial purposes, reserving, at the same time, the rights to the made changes. Earlier Microsoft required to license in addition all executed modifications

See Also

• Microsoft Windows
• Microsoft corporation
• Bill Gates
• Steve Ballmer

Links

• Windows CE 5.0
• The built-in OS and OSRV on the basis of Windows. Windows CE 5.0
• Windows CE 5.0 to Include Microsoft's First Operating System Commercial Derivatives Program for All Licensees