RE: Raspberry Pi 2 and Windows 10: Hello World

Former Member — Fri, 10 Jul 2015 01:03:48 GMT

How can Microsoft woo embedded engineers to Windows 10 if they force them to buy a Windows 10 license for a "PC" and install Visual Studio (oink!)? My contact at Microsoft says that's the way it is, for better and worse. My pal does understand that a significant number of embedded engineers probably prefer a neutral/non-specific staging methodology which would include Linux, Unix, or MacOSX platforms as well as Windows.

Requiring a Windows "mother ship" seems onerous to me, especially after using the "small is beautiful" Raspbian deployment process. People should have more choices, not be constrained to one way.

I think that Microsoft will eventually have to re-think the way they deploy Windows 10 to embedded platforms. Anyone have another perspective?

RE: Raspberry Pi 2 and Windows 10: Hello World

nuncio — Thu, 09 Jul 2015 12:10:20 GMT

I gave all my info to Microsoft back in January to become a Windows 10 developer and to get Windows 10 on my RPi2. I'm still waiting to hear back from them. Meh. I think I'll stick with Linux.