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The "Windows" you can run on a Raspberry Pi (ignoring anything involving X86 emulation) isn't a general-purpose OS. It's more like a deployment target for UWP/I
by khedoros1 10y ago
The "Windows" you can run on a Raspberry Pi (ignoring anything involving X86 emulation) isn't a general-purpose OS. It's more like a deployment target for UWP/IoT apps that you write on a Windows 10 PC.
- flamedoge 10y agoIt's written in C. Why not a general purpose OS?
- asveikau 10y agoThere are important people at Microsoft who basically get very confused about what "x86" or "arm" means. There was a contingent that decided allowing third parties to port win32 apps with a recompile was off the table (despite it being very doable - just look at explorer or notepad running on surface rt), and to this day whenever many MS folks make public statements about windows on arm they sound hopelessly confused.
- flamedoge 10y agoImportant people don't know what underlying hardware their software runs on? I mean it's not that hard to figure that out... I hope they're not just parroting what others tell them.
- asveikau 10y agoI could never figure out if it was stupidity or willful ignorance. Probably elements of both. So I quit that company.