Windows Embedded Compact 2013 (WEC2013 or WCE2013 or WEC vNext ...) - The Windows Embedded Compact 7 Successor

The successor to Windows Embedded Compact 7 is initially named as WEC vNext. Now it is officially named as Windows Embedded Compact 2013.
(check out - http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windows-embedded/archive/2012/11/14/windows-embedded-compact-v-next-uncovered.aspx#comment-821339183)

The important previous versions and their uniqueness are -
CE7: Windows Embedded Compact 7
- Silverlight for Embedded: Application developments made easy, synching designers and developers.
- IE: Panning, zooming, multitouch and viewing bookmarks using thumbnails, etc
- Multicore support

CE6: Windows Embedded CE 6.0
- Significant change in architecture over previous versions of CE
- Incremental updates to features as R1, R2 and R3 releases
- Silverlight introduced, Microsoft office and PDF viewers support too.

CE5: Windows CE 5.0
- Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) introduced
- Updates to Graphics and Multimedia support

CE4: Windows CE .Net 4.2
- .Net Compact Framework introduced

CE3: Windows CE 3.0
CE2: Windows CE 2.1
CE1: Windows CE 1.0
- Launch of first version, Nov 1996

For more details, please check “windowsembedded.com” and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_CE