Windows Mobile Platform Growth

A Microsoft developer posted about why he loves to work on Windows Mobile on the Windows Mobile Team Blog. In it he details the massive growth the Windows Mobile platform has experienced in the past few years:

I’ve talked a lot about not understanding marketers. It’s even harder to understand accountants (even though I’m married to one…). For some reason, our accountants think that the “year” starts in July and ends in June. Well, in the first half of this “year” (in the accounting sense), we sold over five million phone units. Last “year” we sold 150% more units than the year before. And in that year we sold 150% more units than the one before it. Weird accounting speak aside, we’ve been growing at 150% for a couple of years now. That’s easy to do if you’re small. But we’re not small. Exciting times.

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Platforms for .NET CF 2.0

As a corrollary to my last post, what does .NET CF 2.0 run on? According to Jim Wilson's post:

1. PocketPC 2003 & PocketPC 2003 SE
2. PocketPC 2005 (or 5.0)
3. SmartPhone 2005 (or 5.0)
4. WindowsCE 5.0
   

Windows CE != Windows Mobile

"Windows Mobile is not Windows CE (and vice-versa), Windows Mobile has Windows CE as its core – WM 2003 was based on WinCE 4.x, WM 5.0 is based on WinCE version 5 – plus a standard shell, applications and APIs." (link and a follow up here)