Microsoft is planning to enter Internet of Things (IoT) domain with free version of Windows 10. The tech giant is building this free version on Raspberry Pi. Microsoft has reportedly working with Raspberry Pi Foundation on this joint project for last six months.
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Microsoft unveiled the ARM-based, Raspberry Pi 2 yesterday. This chip-board will come with Windows 10 experimental version. Raspberry Pi 2 is six times faster than its predecessor. The new chip comes with Broadcom BCM2856 system-on-chip. Raspberry Pi 2 is powered by VideoCore IV GPU along with 900 MHz quad-core ARMv7 Cortex-A7 processor coupled with 1 GB LPDDR2 SDRAM.
Microsoft has vision of bringing innovation in IoT developers community. Windows 10 for Raspberry Pi 2 is available for free as part of Microsoft’s Windows Developer Program for IoT. Raspberry Pi is priced at just $35. The open source company has sold 4.5 million Raspberry Pi units since February 2012. Raspberry Pi is most preferred and favorite single-board-computer out there. It has achieved massive popularity amongst students, developers, hobbyist and innovators in very small time.
Even last year, Microsoft had launched Sharks Cove chip board with CircuitCo. Sharks Cove was Intel-Atom based quad-core chip that brought Windows 8.1 image to users. This chip board was powered by 1.33 GHz Intel Atom processor coupled with 1GB RAM. Sharks Cove was priced at $299 along with Windows 8.1 image. Sharks Cove gained fair amount of attention by hobbyist and hardware vendors. The chip-board was perfect for the experimentation with phones, tablets and SoC.
Microsoft is already using ARM architecture on Windows RT on Surface tablets. As far as early adopters are concerned, they are more than happy to know that Microsoft is offering free experimentation version of Windows 10 on Raspberry Pi 2 but company is going to have hard time when they start charging for license copy of Windows 10 and developer tools.
Linux OS makers like Ubuntu are also coming up with distro for Raspberry Pi. Snappy Ubuntu runs flawlessly on chip-boards. Intel is trying to give strong competition to Raspberry Pi with its Galileo board.
Microsoft unveiled the ARM-based, Raspberry Pi 2 yesterday. This chip-board will come with Windows 10 experimental version. Raspberry Pi 2 is six times faster than its predecessor. The new chip comes with Broadcom BCM2856 system-on-chip. Raspberry Pi 2 is powered by VideoCore IV GPU along with 900 MHz quad-core ARMv7 Cortex-A7 processor coupled with 1 GB LPDDR2 SDRAM.
Microsoft has vision of bringing innovation in IoT developers community. Windows 10 for Raspberry Pi 2 is available for free as part of Microsoft’s Windows Developer Program for IoT. Raspberry Pi is priced at just $35. The open source company has sold 4.5 million Raspberry Pi units since February 2012. Raspberry Pi is most preferred and favorite single-board-computer out there. It has achieved massive popularity amongst students, developers, hobbyist and innovators in very small time.
Even last year, Microsoft had launched Sharks Cove chip board with CircuitCo. Sharks Cove was Intel-Atom based quad-core chip that brought Windows 8.1 image to users. This chip board was powered by 1.33 GHz Intel Atom processor coupled with 1GB RAM. Sharks Cove was priced at $299 along with Windows 8.1 image. Sharks Cove gained fair amount of attention by hobbyist and hardware vendors. The chip-board was perfect for the experimentation with phones, tablets and SoC.
Microsoft is already using ARM architecture on Windows RT on Surface tablets. As far as early adopters are concerned, they are more than happy to know that Microsoft is offering free experimentation version of Windows 10 on Raspberry Pi 2 but company is going to have hard time when they start charging for license copy of Windows 10 and developer tools.
Linux OS makers like Ubuntu are also coming up with distro for Raspberry Pi. Snappy Ubuntu runs flawlessly on chip-boards. Intel is trying to give strong competition to Raspberry Pi with its Galileo board.
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