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If you've not seen it yet, the next cool thing for you to learn is Windows CE. It's a ROMable version of Windows designed for PC-like devices, including handheld PCs, "wallet" PCs, wireless-communication devices such as digital information pagers and cellular smart phones, next-generation entertainment and multimedia consoles including DVD players, and purpose-built Internet-access devices such as Internet TVs, digital set-top boxes, and Internet "Web phones." (When Dr. GUI was a toaster, you can bet he was running an alpha copy of Windows CE!)
The Windows CE development environment supports a comprehensive, expandable subset of Win32 APIs and uses familiar off-the-shelf tools. You already know how to write cool programs that will make Windows CE machines sing—a great opportunity for you! Check it out at http://microsoft.com/windows/windowsce.
Thanks to Dr. GUI's alphabetical crack team of specialists for this column: Saji Abraham, Rick Caudle, Will Gregg, David Mowers, Samson Tanrena, Brad Van Ee, and Geoff White. Special thanks to organizational wizard Rob Boucher. These specialists are all support engineers in Microsoft's AnswerPoint support organization.