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Yeah, I believe their RPi version is a lightweight consumer-facing version of Windows 8, not intended for use as a server.


No, there's a lot of confusion from bad messaging with the Pi 2 and Windows 10 announcement. By all reports Win 10 on the Pi 2 is a system to run services that have no GUI, desktop, or other UI.


Wow, no UI? That radically changes my expectations for Windows+Pi 2, it'll be interesting to see how it plays out.


Is that actually true? MS has demoed Windows IoT with a UI on minimal devices already. Both ARM and x86. I don't know if the dragonboard 410c is in a different class than the pi2 however.

Take a look on Don Box's presentation at WinHEC from last month. Device talk stats about ~40 mins, device demo starts at ~44 mins.

http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/WinHEC/2015/Developing-for-t...


See Ben from the Raspberry Pi foundation's response here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8983801 Sadly there really hasn't been any update or good info on what Win 10 on the Pi 2 will be yet.




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