Microsoft to support Raspberry Pi 2 with a free version of Windows 10
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Windows RT was always an ARM OS. And low powered devices have been free for Windows for a while now. So that they decided that the Raspberry Pi 2 would qualify for a free edition of Windows isn't really a stretch, but definitely a good decision on their part!
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There's been some internal discussion already here about potentially running one of those for a kiosk type setup out in our manufacturing shops.
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Pretty cool. Looking forward to playing with one of those.
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That new Quad Core unit looks pretty awesome. I may actually have to pick one of those up!
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@Rob-Dunn said:
That new Quad Core unit looks pretty awesome. I may actually have to pick one of those up!
I was supposed to get one of the old ones but it was just another vendor doing free advertising by claiming that they would give out a prize and getting all kinds of attention for awesome give aways and then never actually shipping the things that they said. It's the new "free advertising gimmick" of IT.
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This new version looks like it makes the leap from "neat" to really useful. I hope to get one, should be fun to play with.
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Agreed! This quad-core thing really propels it into a whole new category from "this is an interesting toy" to "I might be able to do something really quite useful with it." I realize I'm repeating what you said, but I actually have some ideas already forming for what I could do with that.
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Doubling the memory really helps too. That's huge. 512MB is pretty constraining these days. 1GB means that even good sized companies can use this for a lot of things.
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I wonder if the ARM version of Windows 10 will include the desktop or only run Universal Apps - I think I've answered that question myself though - considering it's not X86/x64 it will probably be Universal Apps only.
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@Dashrender said:
I wonder if the ARM version of Windows 10 will include the desktop or only run Universal Apps - I think I've answered that question myself though - considering it's not X86/x64 it will probably be Universal Apps only.
Yup. Normal apps would have to be emulated to run on ARM and there is barely enough horsepower to run native apps let alone ones from another architecture.
"Universal Apps" is really just a code word for "JavaScript."
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I'd like to toy with one to control all the stuff in my apartment. Need network / wifi / whatever enabled powerbars but that's not a huge hurdle anymore.
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@MattSpeller said:
I'd like to toy with one to control all the stuff in my apartment. Need network / wifi / whatever enabled powerbars but that's not a huge hurdle anymore.
That would be a fun project. If only I had a stable home in which to do that these days.
