微軟下一代智能手機操作系統(tǒng)Windows Phone 7的底層內核曾一度被業(yè)界猜測是Windows CE6.0。但近日微軟嵌入式系統(tǒng)技術推廣專員Bloch Olivier在自己的博客撰文“Windows CE is NOT dead!”，證實Windows Phone 7基于的是WinCE7核心，WinCE不僅不像許多業(yè)界人士說的那樣已經(jīng)被拋棄，相反，新版本即將開發(fā)完成，微軟將在未來至少十年持續(xù)支持這一平臺。

Olivier沒有公布Windows CE 7更多細節(jié)，但是他表示新版系統(tǒng)中將會加入更多新功能，值得大家期待。
科技博客Engadget就此對微軟進行了進一步追問，微軟方面正式的回答是：
Windows Phone 7 is based on the Windows Embedded CE kernel ? thenext generation of the Windows Embedded CE platform will be WindowsEmbedded Compact 7 when released, and the current version isWindows Embedded CE 6.0 R3. Although Windows Phone 7 was built onthe Windows Embedded CE kernel at its core, the Windows Phone teamhas incorporated innovative features and functionality on top ofthe platform to develop an OS specifically designed to meet theneeds of mobile phone manufacturers.
看起來，Windows Phone 7本來是基于WinCE 6的，但是隨著時間推移，WinCE 7逐漸成熟，Windows Phone7開始轉移到新平臺。