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Windows Embedded Readiness Tour Microsoft Confidential Page  PAGE 28 Step-by-Step Guide for Microsoft? Windows? CE .NET OVERVIEW Microsoft? Windows? CE .NET is the successor to Windows CE 3.0. Designed from the ground up for the embedded marketplace, Windows CE .NET delivers a robust real-time OS for rapidly building the next generation of smart mobile devices. With a rich OS feature set and an end-to-end development environment, Windows CE .NET contains everything you need to create a custom Windows CE–based device. In developing Windows CE .NET, the development team focused on four key areas: 1) providing scalable wireless technologies to flexible connect mobile devices; 2) providing reliable core OS services for demanding real time designs; 3) enabling rich personalized experiences that span devices, PCs, Servers and Web Services; and 4) delivering a rich, easy to use end-to-end toolset. Based on these design goals, Windows CE .NET has been optimized for the next generation of smart connected devices; requiring rich networking, hard real time, smaller footprints and rich multi-media and web browsing. In addition the enhanced end-to-end tools ensure that you can rapidly build smart designs running rich applications on the latest hardware. Windows CE .NET allows an embedded developer to build scalable platforms to flexibly connect the next generation of embedded devices into existing infrastructures. Devices built on Windows CE .NET enable users to remotely authenticate, authorize, administer, and update new applications and OS services. With broad wireless support for PANs, LANs, and WANs—including Bluetooth and 802.11—your embedded device can stay connected anywhere, anytime. In addition, data produced, consumed, stored and transmitted by these devices stays secure with either local or network security. Windows CE .NET also offers reliable core OS services to support the most demanding real-time embedded designs across a breadth of devices. For example, embe