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Out of all of the exciting news coming from Redmond this past year, this has somehow taken the cake for me. In 2013, even suggesting Windows on Raspberry Pi could be a possibility would've gotten you laughed out of the room, and for it now to be actually happening made me take more than a few double-takes.


Somewhat unrelated: I ended up googling "take the cake", - I never heard that in English before but it seems it has a long history: http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/take-the-cake.html


At least in my group of friends this was joked about as late as yesterday.

Definitely impressive of Microsoft and the RPI guys. I'm looking forward to trying it out for myself.


It's not that surprising news. NT has supported ARM for a few years now and the Raspberry Pi 2 is a pretty beefy board - all things considered.


Actually Microsoft seemed to be backing away from ARM support. They have abandoned Windows 10 for existing Windows RT devices, for instance.


That is probably because Surface RT has pretty much been rejected by the market. There is no business in beating a dead horse.


I dunno, Windows has always seemed to enjoy running on cheap hardware.


Linux also. From the consumer market, only OS X/iOS demands over-priced hardware to run.


Premium not over-priced. I am still yet to find any laptop with the build or trackpad quality of any of the MacBooks.


Thinkpads have better build quality (but crappy trackpads). Macbook's cases feel nice but they're brittle.


Are you talking about the metal aluminum cases? Some of the most durable laptops i've had.


Sorry, but since the move to Intel it isn't "premium", it's just over-priced.




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