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Posted on 03/01/2016 5:30:58 AM PST by dayglored
Redmond plans pre-loaded WinPi for thing-makers
Microsoft has announced a cut Windows 10 IoT Core for the Raspberry Pi 3.
The new Insider Preview of Windows 10 IoT Core, yours for the downloading here, supports the new Pi.
Windows 10 IoT Core is a long way short of full Windows comparable to Windows Embedded rather than efforts like Windows 8.1 with Bing intended to run on very cheap hardware. So don't go getting excited about the chance to cook up a fleet of very cheap Raspberry Pi PC replacements.
Some may, however, be excited that Microsoft says it's signed up for the Raspberry Pi customisation program and plans that “OEMs will now be able to build versions of the Raspberry Pi that meet their unique requirements, use the open source BSP that Microsoft has released and deploy with Windows 10 IoT Core.”
BPS? That'd be the Board Support Package that Microsoft makes available to help support deployments of single-board computers.
Microsoft's keen to be associated with the Pi mission of teaching computing to kiddies. But Redmond also has its own interests to advance, namely that that Windows 10 IoT Core provides hooks a-plenty to Azure, with the cloudy service offering all sorts of as-a-services that thing-makers can use to collect and crunch data.
Supporting the Raspberry Pi 3 therefore also supports Microsoft's ambitions to bite deep into the Thingernet. And to make Windows 10 an OS for which one can contemplate coding almost anything.
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Nothing like giving MS a backdoor to your IoT!
I don’t see the point
Well—that Pi didn’t last long. :)
Remember, Redmond is trying to get Win10 into a billion "devices". Raspberry Pi is a pretty popular platform, and very inexpensive. Every device counts...
Just built a Raspberry Pi 2 with Jessie Lite, MySQL, Apache, PHP and Mosquitto MQTT broker. I have remote Arduino driven sensors publishing to the MQTT broker and PHP code on the Pi storing the data in the MySQL server and generating daily graphs viewable on web pages hosted by the Pi.
The Raspberry Pi is very powerful and a real hoot to play with, but I’m not inclined to put any version of Windows on it.
LOL, yeah... My original Pi still has the original Linux on it, works fine. I almost bought a 2 but kept procrastinating... The 3 is pretty tempting. Win10 not so much (for me), but I'm sure it'll be of interest to a lot of folks.
Yes but Unix works just as well.
I’m a computer guy from a long time ago, and use Windows 10 at home, and I don’t understand a single freakin’ thing in this post or in a couple of other ones in the thread.
I’m going Luddite soon. Maybe the “electricity allergy” variant of one.
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