Windows Embedded CE 6.0 R3 was finalized in September 2009 for OEMs and serves as the base platform for the Zune HD and Windows Phone 7.
New device driver model that supports both user mode and kernel mode drivers.The lower 2 GB is the process VM space and is private per process. The system components which now run in kernel have been converted from EXEs to DLLs, which get loaded into kernel space.Some system components (such as filesystem, GWES (graphics, windowing, events server), device driver manager) have been moved to the kernel space.Windows Phone 7, the first major release of the Windows Phone operating system, is based on Windows Embedded CE 6.0 R3 although Windows Phone 7 is also using Windows Embedded Compact 7 features. Windows Mobile 6.5 is based on Windows CE 5.2.
The OS currently serves as the basis for the Zune HD portable media player. Windows Embedded CE 6.0 was released on Novemand includes partial source code. Each process receives 2 GB of virtual address space, up from 32 MB. CE 6.0 features a kernel that supports 32,768 processes, up from the 32-process limit of prior versions. Windows Embedded CE 6.0 (codenamed " Yamazaki") is the sixth major release of the Microsoft Windows embedded operating system targeted to enterprise-specific tools such as industrial controllers and consumer electronics devices like digital cameras. ( August 2008) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Please help to improve this article by introducing more precise citations. This article includes a list of general references, but it remains largely unverified because it lacks sufficient corresponding inline citations.