Windows CE & Windows Mobile – What’s the difference?

I know this is a confused world and one of the many confusions is the difference between the Windows CE and the Windows Mobile Edition. What is the difference between these two? Fernando Zandona explains it all in his blog here.

An excerpt…

Windows Mobile is not Windows CE (and vice-versa), Windows Mobile has Windows CE as its core – WM 2003 was based on WinCE 4.x, WM 5.0 is based on WinCE version 5 – plus a standard shell, applications and APIs.

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