Microsoft did a Smart thing by Bringing Windows 10 to a $35 PC

Microsoft has announced that it will give away a free version of Windows 10 to a new, small computer $ 35 Raspberry Pi known as two.

This is a quiet place, but important announcement shows how Microsoft has changed under Satya Nadella.

Raspberry Pi is a very popular PC - is no longer a small circuit with a main processor (CPU), memory and lots of plugs that allow the connection of input / output as HDMI video.
So far, he has always managed Linux.

The small group is the crowd favorite "manufacturer", those who play with electronics to build things fun and crazy (homegrown versions of Google Glass, arcades, vegetables music ...).


But at $ 35 each, which is also a very popular platform for the "Internet of Things", the applications of the trend in which the sensors are integrated into everyday objects, handled by applications, and accessible via the Internet.

This is the first time that Windows is out sometime in the Raspberry Pi and making it particularly remarkable is that the new Raspberry Pi 2 is powered by an Intel processor, but by the competitor of Intel, ARM.

The only other non-ARM version of Microsoft Windows platform uncompressed, Windows RT, which was a branch of Windows 8. Windows RT never appeared in only a handful of devices and PC manufacturers abandoned very quickly, leaving tablets Microsoft Surface as only Windows tablets RT.

Then, Microsoft has confirmed that Windows RT kill his press conference in Windows 10, when he said that RT is not updated for Windows 10. Microsoft has also stopped selling the surface 2, the latest tablet to run Windows RT.

The news has left people to wonder if Microsoft would release ARM completely, and stick by his decades of collaboration with Intel.

But completely ignoring ARM would be bad for Microsoft. ARM is the processor of choice for mobile devices, including many IO as battery-powered devices easy. IO is a market that is expected to generate billions - perhaps billions - of revenues over the next decade.

The news Raspberry Pi means that Microsoft has found a more recent, and smarter for the ARM version of Windows that a tablet without love.

It also means that the CEO of Satya Nadella promised that Windows 10 would be a dream developers, which works on all types of devices IO little things in giant screens was real.
And this is the most important thing that can save Windows developers get quite excited about Windows 10 for writing interesting new applications for it.

This is what Eben Upton, CEO and founder of Raspberry Pi told Microsoft to announce the new version of Pi:

Over 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. The version compatible with Windows 10 2 Raspberry Pi will be available free for those responsible.