Koan has been Windows CE beta tester since 1997 and was the first italian company MSWEP Microsoft Windows Embedded Partner
Since 2010 KOAN no longer supports Windows systems to fully focus the efforts on embedded Linux
Windows CE – Embedded And Real Time
Microsoft Windows CE .NET, is the new real-time operating system. It was created by Microsoft to develop sophisticated applications for devices based on microprocessor architecture. Microsoft Windows CE .NET supports hundreds of different microprocessors from four different families (x86, ARM, MIPS, PPC) providing each of them with excellent development capabilities.
Window CE .NET has a wide range of development tools including Embedded Visual C++ and Visual Studio .NET. These tools allow very complicated applications to be built at a low-cost and a considerable reduction in processing power. This aspect combined with Microsoft’s new marketing policy enables Windows CE .NET to build low-cost devices.
With a complete operating system feature set and comprehensive development tools, Windows CE .NET contains the features developers need to build, debug, and deploy customized Windows CE. NET-based devices.
The platform development tool, Platform Builder, is a fully integrated development environment (IDE) and includes a software development kit (SDK) export tool.
Windows CE .NET supports Microsoft eMbedded Visual C++® and Microsoft Visual Studio® .NET, providing a complete development environment for building Web services and applications for the Microsoft .NET Compact Framework, a subset of the Microsoft .NET Framework on the desktop. With these tools, developers can rapidly build smart designs running rich applications on the latest hardware.
February 2003 : WinCE.NET 4.2 installed on Intel Lubbock Cotulla