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Windows 10 for Raspberry Pi 2
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Re: Windows 10 for Raspberry Pi 2
#12OK, Microsoft somehow got its sh*t together. I've been seeing them on local programming conferences (in Poland!), they started caring about open source, this company may still have a bright future.
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#13Out of all of the exciting news coming from Redmond this past year, this has somehow taken the cake for me. In 2013, even suggesting Windows on Raspberry Pi could be a possibility would've gotten you laughed out of the room, and for it now to be actually happening made me take more than a few double-takes.
It's not that surprising news. NT has supported ARM for a few years now and the Raspberry Pi 2 is a pretty beefy board - all things considered.
Actually Microsoft seemed to be backing away from ARM support. They have abandoned Windows 10 for existing Windows RT devices, for instance.
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#14It's nice to see Microsoft cares. OTOH part of the attraction of the RPi for me is that people freely share their knowledge, code and cool hacks. Adding a humongous blob of unmodifiable software doesn't really align with any of that. In the best case people will shun this, in the worst case it could harm the culture.
I'm fairly sure that most RPi users neither modify the OS that their device is running or even look at the source code. The community-led innovation mainly happens higher up the stack, and in the hardware add-on space, and I don't see how Windows on RPi would change that. Windows on RPi is unlikely to ever be mainstream, so anyone using Windows-specific features on software would have to accept that their code would be interesting to only a small minority of other RPi users.
Meta: Why all the anti-MS cynicism on the threads for this topic? Isn't it kind of old now?
(Edit: Added "...unlikely to ever be mainstream...")
Re: Windows 10 for Raspberry Pi 2
#15I hope it will support the .net framework. That would make it really accessible to unsophisticated hobbyists like me! There are very few things one can't do with a USB port!
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#16Next step, Microsoft announces FX!32 for Win10 ARM.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FX!32
FX!32 is a software emulator program that allows Win32 programs built for the Intel x86 instruction set to execute on DEC Alpha-based systems running Windows NT.
Re: Windows 10 for Raspberry Pi 2
#17So I guess windows RT will be continued? I first thought that they're going x86-only, including the phones.
Supporting something like RT is a lot more than just making it compile.
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#18I hope it will support the .net framework. That would make it really accessible to unsophisticated hobbyists like me! There are very few things one can't do with a USB port!
Mono runs on existing raspis right now. So this looks very possible.
Re: Windows 10 for Raspberry Pi 2
#19Out of all of the exciting news coming from Redmond this past year, this has somehow taken the cake for me. In 2013, even suggesting Windows on Raspberry Pi could be a possibility would've gotten you laughed out of the room, and for it now to be actually happening made me take more than a few double-takes.
At least in my group of friends this was joked about as late as yesterday.
Definitely impressive of Microsoft and the RPI guys. I'm looking forward to trying it out for myself.
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's not that surprising news. NT has supported ARM for a few years now and the Raspberry Pi 2 is a pretty beefy board - all things considered.
Actually Microsoft seemed to be backing away from ARM support. They have abandoned Windows 10 for existing Windows RT devices, for instance.
That is probably because Surface RT has pretty much been rejected by the market. There is no business in beating a dead horse.