Windows Phone 7 based on a hybrid Windows CE 6 / Compact 7 kernel?

Up until now, we’d heard and believed that Windows Phone 7 would be based on Microsoft’s time-tested Windows CE 6 kernel — aging, yes, but still considerably newer and more technically modern than the CE 5 upon which Windows Mobile 6.x operates. Thing is, Windows Embedded evangelist Olivier Bloch just dropped the knowledge this week that the company’s all-new phone platform will actually be “based on the Windows Embedded Compact 7 core,” which sounds a lot to us like Redmond skipped right over CE 6 and went straight for the latest and greatest (and still unavailable to the general public) stuff.

[Thanks, Jeff]

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