Windows CE and WebTV

January 1998 / Eval / Windows CE Goes Global / Windows CE and WebTV

WebTV started out as a set-top box maker with its own proprietary software for displaying Web pages on a TV screen. Then Microsoft bought WebTV and announced it would port Windows CE to the WebTV box. However, the latest WebTV hardware, WebTV Plus, has no CE-style interface, nor is there a Start but ton in the lower-left corner. WebTV still concentrates on "enhancing the TV experience" and is not aimed at users who want to add their own software.
A future version of WebTV will use Windows CE to make it easier for users to add software from oth er vendors. CE will open up the insides to developers, and the current WebTV OS will run on top of it.

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