Newsgroups
Once you have surfed through the sites listed in this article you may still be left with an unanswered question. Or perhaps you just want to interact with other Windows CE owners. Newsgroups provide you with the ability to interact with thousands of other people from around the world who also have Windows CE devices.

To access newsgroups you will need to use newsreader software, such as Outlook Express, and have it configured to access a news server. Most Internet service providers have their own news servers that communicate with other servers throughout the world. Check with your ISP to configure your software to get to these newsgroups. You'll find comp.os.ms-windows.ce on your ISP's news server.

Microsoft hosts newsgroups on their public news server at msnews.microsoft.com. These groups have the benefit of being monitored by Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals who are dedicated to helping others by helping answer questions posted in the newsgroups. You can find the Windows CE newsgroup at microsoft.public.windowsce.

Computing Central, which is part of the Microsoft Network, also has a Windows CE forum that uses news servers. The forum is open to everyone on the Internet from the server publicnews.msn.com and is monitored by forum managers. The forum is categorized into different newsgroups such as:

• msn.computingcentral.windowsce.devices.hpc
• msn.computingcentral.windowsce.devices.palmpc
• msn.computingcentral.windowsce.devices.general, and
• msn.computingcentral.windowsce.devices.news.

Specialized search engines
What if you've been to all of the sites listed in this article, and browsed through the newsgroups, and you still haven't found what you're looking for? Your final recourse may be to use a search engine. Using a search engine can be a challenge because they tend to provide more information than what you want. Most of the big search engines such as AltaVista and HotBot index all web pages on the Internet. CEGlobe.com provides a search engine at http://www.ceglobe.com/search/ that searches just Windows CE sites [although we've had some difficulty reaching this site on occasion --DG]. A similar site can be found at http://www.wincearch.com/. Chris De Herrera has links on his web site at http://www.cewindows.net/other_info.htm that provide predefined searches on Windows CE for the big search engines.

Conclusion
In this article, I've provided an overview of the information about Windows CE that you can find on the Internet. I've shown you where you can find listings of Web sites dedicated to Windows CE. You can find software to run on your device and reviews of Windows CE hardware and accessories along with software. There are sites that provide information about all of the Windows CE devices as well as sites that contain tips and answers to common problems that you might experience when using your favorite Windows CE device. Newsgroups provide you with a means to interact with other people like yourself and search engines can help you find information.