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by matmann2001 4073 days ago
The demo they show is how to write a LED blinker program. I don't need an operating system (especially Windows) to do that. I could do that with a 555 timer and save $40.

I thought this partnership was going to enable running Windows software on a Pi.
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stinos 4073 days ago
Erm, isn't LED Blinking like the Hello World of talking to digital outputs on any type of hardware? By your logic you can get rid of a lot of the rPi/ARM dev board/basically aything with GPIO/... samples all together, and no-one except people with experience would be able to get LEDs blinking. Which especialy in case of the rPi defeats it's purpose as a learning tool.
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matmann2001 4072 days ago
You've misinterpreted my point.

Blinking LEDs is the Hello World of embedded systems. But if I have to develop all of the software myself that I want to run on the Pi, I'd rather just use Linux.

The only benefit I see about having Windows running on the Pi, is so actual Windows applications can be downloaded and run on it.

If that functionality exists, there should be a demo where you boot up the Pi, access the Windows store, and download/run a real application.

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mohamedattahri 4073 days ago
I don't see demos. I only see samples. And I think it does exactly what you're asking for. It lets you run Windows software on a Pi. If you were thinking full scale Windows application, then Windows IoT Core is not what you're looking for.
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asdfaoeu 4073 days ago
One of the earlier press releases[1] about this didn't mention anything about IoT Core. I think many people expected this would be something like the existing Windows RT.

[1]: https://dev.windows.com/en-US/iot/RaspberryPi2Support

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tdicola 4073 days ago
The messaging about Windows 10 on the Pi 2 a few months ago was pretty bad and many people assumed it was the full Windows 10 desktop experience because so little info was released at the time. Only if you dug into the details released at WinHEC a month ago could you start to see that it's a shell for running simple Windows universal apps.
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MikusR 4073 days ago
There are 7 (seven) mentions of IoT on that site. Eight if you include URL.
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NeutronBoy 4073 days ago
> I thought this partnership was going to enable running Windows software on a Pi.

That's how the tech sites (mis)reported it. It was never about running full Windows, it was about embedded devices and IoT

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dekhn 4073 days ago
Maybe you aren't the intended target for this, then?

I tried to learn electronics with 555 timers and leds about 10 years ago. Failed miserably- there was a ton of back-knowledge I didn't have. Systems like Pi make it a lot esier to work with and debug systems to gain the level of confidence where you can assemble a 555-based system.

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