Palm licensed its operating system to Nokia and Handspring, cutting Microsoft Windows CE off at the knees.
We had a chance to learn more about WMTs CE business at CES, and we are impressed with what WMT is doing and where the company is going in this critical category.
So Microsoft shifted gears and developed the Extender model which put a CE device at each TV with the real brains of the operation on a PC hidden away back in an office -- where PCs belong.
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While that display won't best any brand-name slab on the market, it's certainly usable, even in bright sunlight, as we experienced today at CE Week in New York City.
Before the Chinese restrictions on exports the La and Ce were often selling at a discount to production cost: for they were simply by-products of the extraction of the more desirable and more expensive elements.
Mrs Brewer is a keen churchgoer and had acted as church warden at her former parish of St Clement's in Chorlton and her current parish at St Thomas's CE Church in Helmshore, Lancashire.
Windows CE, on the other hand, is targeted at the hand-held and embedded-systems market.
The CE industry is cyclical and eventually new technology will reach the market at compelling price points to keep retailers in business.
Currently, 86 percent of U.S. households own at least one computer, making it the third most owned CE product category behind televisions and DVD players.
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That was the topic of discussion at the fourth annual HDTV conference yesterday, unlike the movie studios and CE companies backing the two formats, they are directly seeing the negative affects of dealing with two formats and the growing pains of each.
This will enable CE manufacturers to provide wireless display connectivity with best-of-breed video quality and practically zero latency at an extremely attractive price points.
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But before we tell you to jump past the break to check out the short demo, we want to break the news to you that this UI was created just to show off the capabilities of the new CE platform -- there's no plan to bring it to market as is on Microsoft's end at the moment.
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