New Multi-Core Raspberry Pi 2 Launches

'Coming in at the same $35 price-point that has come to be expected from the Raspberry Pi, it looks like the new Model 2 will be packing a quad-core ARM processor with a GB of RAM. From the article: "The Raspberry Pi Foundation is likely to provoke a global geekgasm today with the surprise release of the Raspberry Pi 2 Model B: a turbocharged version of the B+ boasting a new Broadcom BCM2836 900MHz quad-core system-on-chip with 1GB of RAM – all of which will drive performance "at least 6x" that of the B+."' -- source: http://build.slashdot.org/story/15/02/02/0134211 And also in the news: "Microsoft Announces Windows For Raspberry Pi 2 Microsoft is expanding their Windows Developer Program for Internet of Things by delivering a version of Windows 10 that runs on the Raspberry Pi 2. This release of Windows 10 will be free for the maker community through the Windows Developer Program for IoT. With an official partnership with the Raspberry Pi Foundation, Microsoft is bringing development tools, services and ecosystem to the Raspberry Pi community. More details will be shared in the coming months. You can already join the program and be amongst the first to receive product information and beta software releases." -- source: http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/15/02/02/1326225 Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174

On Tue, 3 Feb 2015 09:00:31 +1300, Peter Reutemann wrote:
"Microsoft is expanding their Windows Developer Program for Internet of Things by delivering a version of Windows 10 that runs on the Raspberry Pi 2."
-- source: http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/15/02/02/1326225
Don’t you love that wonderful PR technique of using the present tense to refer to things that don’t actually exist yet...

On Tue, 3 Feb 2015 09:00:31 +1300, Peter Reutemann wrote:
"Microsoft Announces Windows For Raspberry Pi 2
...More details will be shared in the coming months."
-- source: http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/15/02/02/1326225
That was over two months ago. Anybody heard more news yet? It seems pretty clear by now this is never going to ship...

"Microsoft Announces Windows For Raspberry Pi 2
...More details will be shared in the coming months."
-- source: http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/15/02/02/1326225
That was over two months ago. Anybody heard more news yet?
It seems pretty clear by now this is never going to ship...
You have to "join" their programme... https://dev.windows.com/en-us/featured/raspberrypi2support https://www.windowsondevices.com/signup.aspx Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174

On Tue, 14 Apr 2015 11:43:10 +1200, I wrote:
On Tue, 14 Apr 2015 10:52:21 +1200, Peter Reutemann wrote:
You have to "join" their programme...
Sure, but there would have been some public information by now.
Well, now we know: <http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/04/30/microsoft-bringing-windows-10-to-arduino-with-open-source-libraries/>: Microsoft will be offering “Windows 10 IoT Core” for the Raspberry π 2. This is not a full OS like Linux: it is some kind of cut-down slave OS that you have to control remotely from a Windows box.
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