Windows Embedded Handheld shortens to WEH because thats how you feel trying to actually use it for anything
@theking the pim tools feel like an afterthought compared to Palm OS where it was front and goddamn center
@theking Theres a document that i think's been preserved called "Zen of Palm" that lays out the design principles and philosophy of Palm and they talk so much shit about Windows Mobile indirectly lmao
@lyncia@social.pixie.town windows mobile (CE really), feels like a cobbling to what was first just a embedded/pocket pc firmware into a pda software, but caring far more about embedded and industrial customers than anyone else
Hell, the zunes all used windows CE for the base... Glorified mp3 kiosk software
@theking when they were designing the original Palm Pilot, one of the founders/designers made a wooden block to the exact dimensions and carried it in his shirt pocket as a test
@lyncia@social.pixie.town yeah, that's pretty clever
@lyncia Appropriate, since it's the new name for WinCE
And, yeah, using it any time in the past 15 years or so makes me wince, too. :p
@lenalia im going through the games on the platform and the whole OS feels duct taped together
@lyncia@social.pixie.town I have one of those
Programming VB in VS2008 sucks a lot