| Microsoft Rolls Out Windows CE 6 |
| Wednesday, 10 May 2006 by Michel Roth | |||
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The upgrade sports a redesigned kernel that implements a significant increase in the number of simultaneous application processes, along with increased per-process virtual memory addressability. Mukund Ghangurde, Microsoft's Group Product Manager for Windows Embedded, told WindowsForDevices that the "redesigned kernel" expands the number of simultaneous processes from 32 to 32,000, while enlarging the virtual memory that is addressable by each process from 64MB to 2GB. Despite the added functionality, "the footprint of the kernel is pretty much the same as what it was before," Ghangurde said. "The [Windows CE 5.0] kernel is about 300KB in size, and our development team assures us that [the Windows CE 6 kernel] is going to be pretty much in that same ballpark," he added. "Clearly we don't know yet, because there's still development work being done, but our objective is to be very close to that. We realize that for our customers, footprint is very important." Read on here.
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