When microsoft started with their windows CE I thought it wouldn't last. It is one of those rare occasions in life where I was wrong smiley-cool.
I have worked on windows CE systems for a living. It is rubbish, there are increasingly less and less of those systems about and you will find there are far more ARM chips about.
The only good thing about Windows CE is I got sent to Las Vegas on a CE conference, and got to walk down the Grand Canyon at the weekend.
It was reported that Bill Gates said that the Apple business model only worked if you had Steve Jobs.
When Steve was told this he said that the Microsoft business model only worked if you didn't mind releasing crappy products.