Windows Embedded evangelist Olivier Bloch confirmed today in a blog update that Windows Phone 7, Microsoft’s next smartphone OS, is based on the unannounced and unreleased Windows CE 7 core.
“Windows CE is NOT dead. Our devs are heads down finalizing Windows Embedded Compact 7 that will ship soon and that Microsoft will support over the next 10 years (at least),” Bloch said. “[The] Windows Embedded team is investing a lot in adding new features, creating new tools to support these new features, analyzing the Embedded market really seriously… Does that sound like a dead product? Definitively not”
“By the way, Windows Phone 7 is based on the Windows Embedded Compact 7 core,” he finished.
Very little is known about Windows Embedded Compact 7, but it has previously been confirmed that binaries from the desktop edition of Windows 7 have inspired the operating system’s design. The same design philosophy is also expected to dictate the design of Windows Embedded Standard 7, which is being prepared for thin clients, STBs, point-of-sale devices or other small systems.
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