Microsoft Announces Windows For Raspberry Pi 2

Posted by samzenpus on Monday February 2, 2015 @02:33AM from the coming-together dept.

jones_supa writes 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.

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Re:just want I wanted! by Richard_at_work · 2015-02-02 04:01 · Score: 5, Interesting

If open was their goal, why did they go with components which require closed source drivers and firmware?
From what I can see, Raspberry Pi's goal was to be this generations BBC Micro, nothing else. Something that is cheap to hack on - Linux was free from a license cost perspective, so that's what got used. The non-open components were cheap from a cost perspective, so thats what got used.