WinCE 6.0

Windows Embedded CE 6.0 (codenamed "Yamazaki") is the 6^th major release of Windows Embedded Operating System targeted to enterprise specific tools such as industrial controllers and consumer electronics devices like digital cameras. CE 6.0 features a completely redesigned kernel, which supports 32,768 processes, up from 32 process support of the previous versions. Each process receives 2GB of virtual address space, up from 32MB.

Windows Embedded CE 6.0 was released on November 1, 2006, and includes partial source code. The OS currently serves as the basis for the Zune HD. Windows Mobile 6.5 is based on Windows CE 5.2. Windows Phone 7, the latest major release of the Windows Phone operating system, is powered by Windows Embedded CE 6.0 R3; although Windows Phone 7 is also utilizing Windows Embedded Compact 7 features.

New features

Some System components (such as file system, GWES (Graphics, Windowing, and Events Server), device driver manager) have been moved to the kernel space. The system components which now run in kernel have been converted from EXEs to DLLs, which get loaded into kernel space.

New Virtual memory model: The lower 2GB is the process VM space and is private per process. The upper 2GB is the kernel VM space.

New device driver model: that supports both User mode and Kernel mode drivers.

Limit Exceeded: The 32 process limit has been raised to 32,768 processes.

Virtual Memory: The 32 megabyte virtual memory limit has been raised to the total virtual memory (Up to 2GB of private VM is available per process).

Platform Builder IDE: The Platform Builder IDE is integrated into Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 as plug-in (thus forcing the client to obtain Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 as well), allowing a single development environment for both platform and application development.

UDF 2.5: Read-only support for UDF 2.5 files system.

exFAT: Support for Microsoft's exFAT file system.

Wifi: 802.11i (WPA2) and 802.11e (QoS) wireless standards, and multiple radio support.

Architectures: CE 6.0 works with x86, ARM, SH4 and MIPS based processor architectures.

Cell core components: New Cell core components to enable devices to easily make data connections and initiate voice calls through cellular networks.