Since its inception as an operating system for embedded and small-footprint information devices, Windows CE has evolved into its present, fourth-generation incarnation: CE.Net. The new version, which ...

Gates said a number of portable device manufacturers are already using the new OS in products. Among those companies unveiling Windows CE .Net handhelds at the show were Symbol Technologies, Intermec ...

Microsoft plans to announce on Monday a new, more widely available test version of "Talisker," the code name for the next version of its Windows CE operating system. Beta 2 is designed to be the last ...

It was a proto-netbook. It was a palmtop. It was a PDA. It was Windows Phone 7 but not Windows Phone 8, and then it was an embedded ghost. Its parents never seemed to know what to do with it after it ...

As part of its effort to deal with the threat of open-source software, Microsoft plans to let device makers modify more of the source code of its specialized Windows CE operating system. But some say ...

Microsoft Corp. is expanding a source-code sharing program for its Windows CE mobile operating system and giving users and software developers the ability to alter ...