Flair, Ibexx & All, MSFT Mobile CE Push - Coming Sept 29 to a customer near you,
- $500 mobile devices
- Windows CE 2.0
- Universal Virtual Machine, supporting Visual C++, Visual Basic & Visual J++
A few extracts:
Microsoft's UVM will let enterprise developers build applications once, using Visual C++, Visual Basic, or Visual J++, and run them unchanged on any of the six RISC processors that are supported by the lightweight Windows CE operating system. Right now, the only way to build applications for CE is to use Visual C++, then recompile the applications for each of CE's target processors -- a tedious and error-prone process, developers say. Adding Visual Basic to the lineup of CE-capable languages opens the door to millions of enterprise shops interested in extending their VB applications out to the field.
Initial reaction to Microsoft's plan from enterprise VB developers is one of surprise and excitement. "We have a manufacturing shop floor here," says Owen Johnson, MIS director at Lewis Machine & Tool Co. in Milan, Ill. "We could replace the notebooks and desktops on the shop floor, and have people entering information on little Windows CE machines connected to the network. That's a great data-entry scheme, especially when you consider we can hook them into our VB client-server applications."
techweb.cmp.com
[Whoops, there goes some more pieces of Scott's & Larry's ears.]
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