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Re: [LUG] Windows 10 on the pi2

 

On 24/02/15 13:30, Gordon Henderson wrote:
On Tue, 24 Feb 2015, Roland Tarver wrote:

Hi folks,

Everyone has probably already spotted this, but...

https://dev.windows.com/en-us/featured/raspberrypi2support

I wonder if MS have suddenly thought "o bugger, a generation of kids
hacking on something other than windows"?

I certainly hope the pi foundation and MS don't become close bed
fellows. I'm guessing not.

Why not? Remember the foundation is all about education - the Pi
hardware is just a means to an end.

Hmmm. Fair enough. I had assumed they were likely to be floss advocates and therefore un-likely to entertain windows on their hardware. In addition, I thought that the principles behind floss software would be an important education in their own right. Peer-review, collaboration etc etc.... hey ho.



However if you look more into the storys, etc. then you'll see that this
isn't really Win10, but the Internet of Things version - more like the
sort of tablet code than a full blown version of Win10.


Ah, yes. I had missed the relevance of that. )-:

So nothing wrong with hacking on windows - as long as it's hackable (in
the programming, interfacing sense that is)

Gordon



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