WinCE Developers Hold Key To Digital Set-Top Success.
Multichannel News, June, 1999 by MENEZES, BILL
Microsoft Corp. is making it clear that the global community of Windows software developers is a key to gaining a dominant role in digital-cable set-top boxes. While Microsoft's annual conference last week to court developers for its Windows CE (WinCE) operating system generated little new set-top buzz, the software giant unveiled tools to help developers create software and hardware running on WinCE and to translate that work to a broader variety of devices.
One such tool, the "Common Executable Format," enables a developer to write applications that work on more than one type of microprocessor, instead of having to recompile the programs for each of the different processors used by WinCE-device vendors. Some participants at the Denver gathering...
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