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Re:The Windows Update Marathon in a VM: From Windows 1.01 to XP by scarface74 on Tuesday November 05, 2019 @05:04PM (#21457238)
Google supposedly didn't support windows phone, in part, because they were upset that they couldn't use the wince apps as a base.

I was a WinCE developer - both .Net and MFC. Trust me, no one wanted to use WinCE for anything. Besides, MS abandoned WinCE with VS 2010.

I can’t speak for performance, but the resource requirements for Windows is huge compared to Linux and that really makes a difference in cloud environments when it comes to price (even excluding licensing cost) and startup time - that makes a difference when you need elasticity and to scale up and down fast.

You can do a lot with a 128MB/.25 vCPU Linux instance. You can barely get away with a 4GB RAM Windows instance with 1 vCPU.

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Re:The Windows Update Marathon in a VM: From Windows 1.01 to XP by toast0 on Tuesday November 05, 2019 @11:56PM (#21459821)
> Trust me, no one wanted to use WinCE for anything.

Well, maybe nobody wanted to, but to support a new platform with unknown uptake, would you rather use your existing code, write something new on a less capable api[1], or just walk away?

[1] well, a lot of wince stuff was still there on wp7, if you were willing to do terrible things in order to get available features that weren't exposed.

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