Legacy Update: Get back online, activate, and install updates on your legacy Windows PC

This download is an incremental release to Windows Embedded CE 6.0, if you do not have CE 6.0, you can also download an evaluation copy from Microsoft® download center. Windows Embedded CE 6.0 R2 provides the latest breakthrough technologies that help Windows Embedded CE 6.0 device makers efficiently build small footprint devices that connect to Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008.

• Windows Embedded CE 6.0 R2 delivers amazing new operating system components that help Windows Embedded CE 6.0 device makers get to market faster with devices that can more easily connect to Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008.
  
  Here are some of the new technologies and updates provided in this release:
  •Support for Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) 6.0
  
  The Windows Embedded CE 6.0 R2 release provides the latest version of Remote Desktop protocol to help enable CE-based thin clients to connect using the latest version of Windows Server remote computing technologies.
  
  •Support for Web Services on Devices (WSD) protocol stack and application programming interfaces (API), together with sample code
  
  By helping to enable Windows Rally technologies such as web services on devices in Windows Embedded CE 6.0 R2, a connectivity technology supported natively by Windows Vista, OEMs can provide richer experiences and product differentiation when their devices connect virtually to a PC over the network and yet behave as if they were directly connected.
  
  •Support for Video over IP telephony calls
  
  •Additional Voice over IP (VoIP) functionality, including a VoIP boot loader application and resources for QVGA landscape and QVGA portrait user interfaces
  
  •Support for the Pocket Outlook Object Model (POOM) and ActiveSync in the VoIP Home Screen and VoIP Contacts applications
  
  •New sample board support packages (BSPs)
  
  •Support for Auto Proxy Configuration Support in Internet Explorer 6 for Windows Embedded CE
  
  •Support for USB CCID Smart Card readers
  
  •Support for Windows Media Player OLE Control Extension (OCX) 7
  
  •Support for flash media management
  
  •A new pluggable font engine framework
  
  •Secure Digital (SD) bus driver that supports SDHC specification 2.00 functionality, such as Secure Digital High-Capacity (SDHC) cards
  
  •And more! go to http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=99344 To learn details.

Files

Status: Deleted This download is no longer available on microsoft.com. The downloads below are archives provided by the Internet Archive Wayback Machine from the Microsoft Download Center prior to August 2020.

File	SHA1 Hash	Size
CE6R2.iso	73b4a9a99bcf33b716eccf425048cfca7f20b762	1.86 GB
setup.exe	1a4a66e358771a79362ba1c5c884818cfa5d5e58	24 KB
Windows Embedded CE 6.0 R2 Release Notes.htm	d91dc8abf2ece0a4806f081828674984f7464c6b	25 KB
Windows Embedded CE 6.0 R2_License.rtf	74cb54ef842f5d0fc6a68d6fc1e08f627320f378	2 KB

• Vista
  •Supported Operating Systems: Windows Vista
  •Processor/RAM: Windows Vista hardware requirements
  oPC with 933 Mhz or faster processor. 2Ghz recommended
  o512 MB of RAM; 1GB recommended
  o18 GB of available space on installation drive
  o1 GB of available space on system drive
  oDVD-ROM drive
  oMonitor that supports 1024 x 768 screen resolution with 16 bit color
  
  •Required Software:
  olicensed copy of Windows Embedded CE 6.0
  olicensed copy of a Visual Studio 2005 (except Express)
  oVisual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1.
  oVisual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Update for Windows Vista
  oWindows Embedded CE 6.0 Platform Builder Service Pack 1
  
  
  Windows 2000 SP4; Windows XP SP2
  •Supported Operating Systems: Windows 2000 Service Pack 4; Windows XP Service Pack 2
  •Processor/RAM: Windows Embedded CE 6.0 hardware requirements.
  •Required Software:
  olicensed copy of Windows Embedded CE 6.0
  olicensed copy of a Visual Studio 2005 (except Express)
  oVisual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1.
  oWindows Embedded CE 6.0 Platform Builder Service Pack 1
  
  

• Related Resources
  
  1.Windows Embedded CE 6.0 Evaluation Edition
  2.Visual Studio 2005 Professional Edition 90-Day Trial
  3.How To Buy Windows Embedded Software
  4.Windows Embedded CE 6.0 Components
  5.http://www.microsoft.com/windowsce