Thread: Elops oh s**t moment for Meego
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Bernard is offline Bernard
2011-06-14 , 09:35
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Originally Posted by kanishou View Post
The latter. Elop has said this quite clearly, they don't want to split developer resources and complicate matters.

It's fairly sensible, though at least being able to run native C++ backend code would certainly simplify some porting efforts.
I wonder if SIlverlight and Windows Phone is really a long-term solution for microsoft. It feels like a transitional product, just like Symbian^3 and Maemo Harmattan, but microsoft is less open about its plans.
In a year Microsoft will probably release Windows 8 with touch support based on NT kernel not CE, support ARM chips, and much of the graphics effects seem to be HTML based (IE10), not Silverlight.

This positions Windows Phone at the lower-end of the smartphone range with "real windows" on higher powered devices.

Considering that all other "low-resources" OS-es have been killed (Newton OS, Palm OS, Symbian OS) because modernizing them would have been too much work, why would CE be in any better shape? I think it is much more likely that Microsoft is planning to kill CE, and that future mobile os-es will be windows NT based, they are just more secretive about it.