Re: [Embedded troll] - A little Tuesday amusement
From: Paul Carpenter (paul$_at_pcserv.demon.co.uk)
Date: 05/05/04
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Date: Tue, 4 May 2004 23:16:35 +0000 (UTC)
On 4 May, in article
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larwe@larwe.com "Lewin A.R.W. Edwards" wrote:
>The SNR in this NG has been far too high recently. Where are the
>religious wars, the bitter arguments, the off-topic whining, in short:
>all that makes Usenet so useful and enjoyable?
....
>The ethical problem is that I would not recommend a Microsoft
>"embedded" "solution" to any customer of mine except under a VERY
>limited set of circumstances (i.e.: the customer has no real embedded
>programmers in-house, has a non-mission-critical product, and needs to
>leverage a stable of cheap programmers whose only real experience is
>with Win32, and who are too mediocre to be retrainable
>cost-effectively). Windows CE is simply not a credible alternative for
>practically all other situations; it does not even offer the dubious
>advantage of holding a majority marketshare. The general mien of the
>embedded landscape and the engineers who populate it suggests that
>Windows CE will not achieve market dominance in my lifetime, and the
>underlying design assumptions in the product itself suggest that it
>will never achieve technical ascendancy either (in its current form,
>anyway). So there is no compelling reason for me to recommend it, and
>very good reasons for me to steer people away from it.
I was at a seminar for a 32bit processor (not Intel) and one of the
speakers was from the local Microsoft expounding the virtues of WinCE
for this processor. His 'best' line was "and this supports Windows
Media Player V8"
The obvious outcome of this is the wonderful ability to get an error
condition play back "I'm sorry Dave I can't do that"...
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