My company uses in house developed software that operates on a Pocket PC
2003/PDA. My understanding from Microsoft is that XP Tablet supports the
Pocket PC operating system, however, it is only my understanding? I cannot
get a definitive answer from Microsoft or Fujitsu (the tablet I want to
purchase) on the issue. My company's IT department has no experience with
Tablets and therefore does not know. I do not expect anyone to commit an
answer as to the application of our private software I am just looking for
someone to say "yes-Tablet PC does contain the Pocket PC operating system."
Does anyone here have experience with this matter?

Its is XP OS with ink extensions and special hardware. It is not PPC , if
you load the PPC sdk it has a PPC emulator...

--
Jeffery W. Roach
MCT, MCSE, MCSA, MCDST, CTTS, CNA, N+, A+
"TomBee" <TomBee@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> My company uses in house developed software that operates on a Pocket PC
> 2003/PDA. My understanding from Microsoft is that XP Tablet supports the
> Pocket PC operating system, however, it is only my understanding? I cannot
> get a definitive answer from Microsoft or Fujitsu (the tablet I want to
> purchase) on the issue. My company's IT department has no experience with
> Tablets and therefore does not know. I do not expect anyone to commit an
> answer as to the application of our private software I am just looking for
> someone to say "yes-Tablet PC does contain the Pocket PC operating
> system."
> Does anyone here have experience with this matter?

Please excuse my ignorance, what is “sdk� and where do I get it and how do I
load it? Do you use it? Does it pretty much perform the functionality of a
PPC/PDA?

"Jeffrey W. Roach" wrote:

> Its is XP OS with ink extensions and special hardware. It is not PPC , if
> you load the PPC sdk it has a PPC emulator...
>
> --
> Jeffery W. Roach
> MCT, MCSE, MCSA, MCDST, CTTS, CNA, N+, A+
> "TomBee" <TomBee@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:701A68C4-10C9-4682-98E5-FDCC29A1A5AC@microsoft.com...
> > My company uses in house developed software that operates on a Pocket PC
> > 2003/PDA. My understanding from Microsoft is that XP Tablet supports the
> > Pocket PC operating system, however, it is only my understanding? I cannot
> > get a definitive answer from Microsoft or Fujitsu (the tablet I want to
> > purchase) on the issue. My company's IT department has no experience with
> > Tablets and therefore does not know. I do not expect anyone to commit an
> > answer as to the application of our private software I am just looking for
> > someone to say "yes-Tablet PC does contain the Pocket PC operating
> > system."
> > Does anyone here have experience with this matter?
>
>
>

A Pocket PC uses a different operating system - Windows CE. It is not the
same asWindows XP. Pocket PC applications will not run natively on a
Tablet PC unless that same program runs on a desktop running XP.
--
Terri Stratton
Editor / Owner
http://thetabletpc.net
http://themediacenterpc.net
Microsoft Windows MVP / Tablet PC

"TomBee" <TomBee@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:701A68C4-10C9-4682-98E5-FDCC29A1A5AC@microsoft.com...
> My company uses in house developed software that operates on a Pocket PC
> 2003/PDA. My understanding from Microsoft is that XP Tablet supports the
> Pocket PC operating system, however, it is only my understanding? I cannot
> get a definitive answer from Microsoft or Fujitsu (the tablet I want to
> purchase) on the issue. My company's IT department has no experience with
> Tablets and therefore does not know. I do not expect anyone to commit an
> answer as to the application of our private software I am just looking for
> someone to say "yes-Tablet PC does contain the Pocket PC operating
> system."
> Does anyone here have experience with this matter?

Hello Terri,
I wanted to clarify a bit. If you are using an in-house developed application which runs on PPC 2003, you might be using a .Net Compact Framework application. The .Net Compact Framework is a reimplementation of the full .Net Framework, currently in release 1.1. The cool thing about code written using the .Net CF is that the very same code that runs on the PPC device can be recompiled to run on a "normal" PC with the full .Net Framework.
I want to be clear that this does involve recompiling the software. You can not install the very same software on a PC as you can on a PPC, and the reason is more than just the version of the operating system. The reason you can't just use the same software on both types of machines has to do with the kind of processor you have in each machine. PCs use Intel or AMD chips while PPCs are usually based on the StrongArm or MIPs processor chips. Just like you can't typically take software from a PC and run it on the Mac (with it's RISC chip), you can't take software built for a StrongArm processor and expect it to work on an Intel Pentium chip.

Matt Ranlett
http://weblogs.cerkit.com/regularguys


Hello terri,

> A Pocket PC uses a different operating system - Windows CE. It is not
> the same asWindows XP. Pocket PC applications will not run
> natively on a Tablet PC unless that same program runs on a desktop
> running XP.
>
> "TomBee" <TomBee@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:701A68C4-10C9-4682-98E5-FDCC29A1A5AC@microsoft.com...
>
>> My company uses in house developed software that operates on a Pocket
>> PC
>> 2003/PDA. My understanding from Microsoft is that XP Tablet supports
>> the
>> Pocket PC operating system, however, it is only my understanding? I
>> cannot
>> get a definitive answer from Microsoft or Fujitsu (the tablet I want
>> to
>> purchase) on the issue. My company's IT department has no experience
>> with
>> Tablets and therefore does not know. I do not expect anyone to commit
>> an
>> answer as to the application of our private software I am just
>> looking for
>> someone to say "yes-Tablet PC does contain the Pocket PC operating
>> system."
>> Does anyone here have experience with this matter?

An SDK is "software development Kit", is allows developers to write software
for the platform. The SDK for pocket pc comes with an emulator that acts
like a pocket pc complete with an app that looks like a "generic" pocket pc.
I've used the emulator while teaching classes to management on how to use
the pocket PC.

--
Jeffery W. Roach
MCT, MCSE, MCSA, MCDST, CTTS, CNA, N+, A+



"Jeffrey W. Roach" <Jeff@nospamjnjroach.com> wrote in message
news:uKT5v7k3EHA.1564@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> Its is XP OS with ink extensions and special hardware. It is not PPC , if
> you load the PPC sdk it has a PPC emulator...
>
> --
> Jeffery W. Roach
> MCT, MCSE, MCSA, MCDST, CTTS, CNA, N+, A+
> "TomBee" <TomBee@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:701A68C4-10C9-4682-98E5-FDCC29A1A5AC@microsoft.com...
>> My company uses in house developed software that operates on a Pocket PC
>> 2003/PDA. My understanding from Microsoft is that XP Tablet supports the
>> Pocket PC operating system, however, it is only my understanding? I
>> cannot
>> get a definitive answer from Microsoft or Fujitsu (the tablet I want to
>> purchase) on the issue. My company's IT department has no experience with
>> Tablets and therefore does not know. I do not expect anyone to commit an
>> answer as to the application of our private software I am just looking
>> for
>> someone to say "yes-Tablet PC does contain the Pocket PC operating
>> system."
>> Does anyone here have experience with this matter?
>
>

If the programs are done using the Compact .NET Framework and do not use
Pocket PC specific features, the program may run on a Tablet PC.


Best regards,

Henrik Dahl

"TomBee" <TomBee@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:701A68C4-10C9-4682-98E5-FDCC29A1A5AC@microsoft.com...
> My company uses in house developed software that operates on a Pocket PC
> 2003/PDA. My understanding from Microsoft is that XP Tablet supports the
> Pocket PC operating system, however, it is only my understanding? I cannot
> get a definitive answer from Microsoft or Fujitsu (the tablet I want to
> purchase) on the issue. My company's IT department has no experience with
> Tablets and therefore does not know. I do not expect anyone to commit an
> answer as to the application of our private software I am just looking for
> someone to say "yes-Tablet PC does contain the Pocket PC operating
system."
> Does anyone here have experience with this matter?