Microsoft Did A Smart Thing By Bringing Windows 10 To A $35 PC

Monday, Microsoft announced that it would give a free version of Windows 10 to a new, small $ 35 Raspberry Pi computer known as 2. This is a quiet, but important announcement shows how Microsoft has changed under Satya Nadella.Raspberry Pi PC is a bit extremely popular. is really only a small circuit board with a main processor (CPU), a group of memory, and plugs for connecting to input / output as HDMI video. (Home Grown versions of Google Glass, electronic games salt, vegetables music) until now, has always managed Linux.The small team is the crowd favorite for coffee, people who play with electronics to build fun and crazy stuff .

But at $ 35 per head, but is also a very popular platform for Internet of Things applications, the trend in which the sensors are integrated into everyday objects, handled by applications, and accessible on the Internet. This is the first time that Windows has never run on Raspberry Pi, and what makes it particularly noteworthy that the new Raspberry Pi 2 is powered by an Intel processor, but for the competitor to Intel, ARM.

The only other ARM version of Windows is the missed tablet platform Microsoft, Windows RT, which was a branch of Windows 8. Windows RT only ever released in a handful of devices and PC manufacturers fell rather quickly, leaving Microsoft Surface tablet as Windows tablets unique RT. So Microsoft has confirmed that Windows RT kill in his press conference Windows 10, when he said that RT will not be upgraded to Windows 10. Microsoft has also stopped selling the surface 2, the latest tablet to run Windows RT news .that people was wondering if Microsoft would release ARM completely, and cling to his decades of association with Intel.

But ignoring ARM everything would be bad for Microsoft. ARM is the processor of choice for mobile devices, including many IoT devices as easy battery. Object is a promising market is expected to generate billions perhaps even billions of revenues in the next news decade.The Raspberry Pi means that Microsoft has found a new and smarter use of your ARM version of Windows without a tablet love.

It also means that the CEO Satya Nadella promised that Windows 10 would be a dream for developers, which runs on all types of devices from small things to big screens IO had to real.And which is the most important thing that you can save Windows developers getting excited enough about Windows 10 for writing new applications to cool it.Here what Eben Upton, executive director and founder of Raspberry Pi said Microsoft announced the new version of Pi:

In the last six months we have worked closely with Microsoft to bring the next Windows 10 Raspberry Pi 2. Microsoft will have much more to share in the coming months. Version 2 is compatible with Windows 10 Raspberry Pi will be available free for those responsible.