Windows Embedded Handheld Revitalized

This is very exciting to see. It really seems that Windows Embedded Handheld devices will be important in the upcoming future. As a matter of facts, so important that a brand new blog by Dion Hutchings is not published on MSDN. Different from Windows Phone, Windows Embedded Handheld devices

  • can have different form factors
  • have access to Win32 API’s
  • can run native and managed applications
  • can have additional hardware resources.

For a while it seemed that Microsoft quietly would let go of Windows Mobile (or Windows Embedded Handheld, as I should call it these days). However, with this brand new blog, but also with some encouraging words from Kevin Dallas, it seems that Windows Embedded Handheld is alive and kicking.