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Ditch Linux For Windows 10 On Your Raspberry Pi With Microsoft's IoT Kit

Posted by samzenpus on from the get-started dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Partnering with Adafruit, Microsoft has announced the Windows IoT Core Starter Kit. The $75 kit comes comes with an SD card preloaded with Windows 10 IoT. According to the Raspberry Pi blog: "The pack is available with a Pi 2 for people who are are new to Raspberry Pi or who'd like a dedicated device for their projects, or without one for those who'll be using a Pi they already own. The box contains an SD card with Windows 10 Core and a case, power supply, wifi module and Ethernet cable for your Pi; a breadboard, jumper wires and components including LEDs, potentiometers and switches; and sensors for light, colour, temperature and pressure. There's everything you need to start building."

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  1. Re:Uh? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's perfect. Now my Pi can have Telemetry!
    DirectX ought to come in handy, too.

  2. You really make it hard by Opportunist · · Score: 5, Funny

    Dumping a system that works and does what I want for a system that spies on me and will change at the whim of its maker with but a "swallow bitch" if I complain.

    Decisions, decisions...

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    We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
  3. The Year on Linux on the desktop by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    is the year that Windows will replace Linux on the IoT.

  4. Re:pft... by edxwelch · · Score: 5, Funny

    masochism?

  5. Re:Uh? by Eythian · · Score: 5, Funny

    It doesn't come with a GUI, so if you want a working display, you need Linux.

    I don't think anyone has ever said those words before.