Why should I build an embedded system on Windows CE .NET and not Linux?
Windows CE .NET delivers a feature-rich, comprehensive, integrated embedded operating system platform, supported by an experienced and growing worldwide infrastructure of partners and developers that enable an OEM to get to market faster, utilize limited resources for product differentiation—not operating system development and maintenance—and protect their value-added intellectual property with a known, trusted vendor and business model. Windows CE. NET includes over 400 professionally-tested lightweight configurable components, a hard real-time and preemptive multitasking kernel, rich wireless, multimedia, browsing and power management functionality, and built-in support for over 200 different 32-bit CPUs spanning the ARM, MIPS, SuperH (SH), and x86 architectures.