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Microsoft preps new version of Windows CE

May 8, 2006

KiplingerForecasts:Microsoft Corp. developers have quietly been working on a new version of Windows CE, the operating system found in everything from sewing machines and ATMs to cell phones. A beta version of the revamped Windows CE is expected to be introduced to software developers May 9 at a conference in Las Vegas. The update will provide the basis for Windows Mobile - designed for sophisticated cell phones but a program that even the company concedes can be clunky. With Windows CE, Microsoft also is making changes that aim to please developers. It's part of the company's strategy to beat some of its toughest competition - open-source technology, whose developers believe that software improvements should be freely shared.

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