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Windows CE Version 2.0

    

To summarise, the enhancements and features for version 2.0 include the following:

Kernel

  • Ported to the x86 family and the PowerPC family
  • Optimised to support some real-time applications
  • Supports demand paging of FAT volumes

ActiveX / COM / OLE / Automation

  • Supports ActiveX™ controls, active scripting, and compound documents
  • Supports dual interfaces for Automation (IUnknown and IDispatch)
  • Supports in-process servers

Graphics, Windowing, and Events Subsystem (GWES)

  • Supports full colour (bit-depth independence) and a new palette model in which the foreground application controls the system palette
  • Supports TrueType fonts

Communication

  • Supports the WinINET API for HTTP and FTP
  • Supports SLIP as well as PPP for serial networking
  • Provides Plug and Play support for network PC Cards
  • Supports secure communication via SSL 2.0 and 3.0 and PCT 1.0 protocols
  • Offers improvements to the desktop synchronisation model

Misc

  • Supports printing over infrared and serial connections
  • Supports a handwriting recognition engine