Microsoft and Raspberry Pi

Microsoft Makes Raspberry Pi Its Preferred IoT Dev Board

Intel's Galileo scratched off Windows 10 'thing' list

Richard Chirgwin | November 19, 2015

A little over a year after Intel's Galileo development board got its first taste of Microsoft Windows, Redmond has decided to pull the project.
Chipzilla's Raspberry Pi-like Galileo was anointed as able-to-run-Windows in August 2014, courtesy of the 1.0.2 firmware update for the Gen1 device. In the same month Intel launched the Gen2 board (which got its stripped-down Windows 8 version in October 2014).
Microsoft was also handing out Galileo devices free to developers joining its Internet of Things program.

Intel's Galileo board. No longer the preferred IoT development board for Microsoft. Source: http://blog.kloud.com.au/2014/12/04/microsoft-windows-iot-and-the-intel-galileo/

<more at http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/11/19/redmond_expels_galileo/; related links: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/08/19/intel_windows_enables_galileo/ (Intel's Raspberry Pi rival Galileo can now run Windows. Behold the Internet of Things. Wintel Things. August 19, 2014)  and http://ms-iot.github.io/content/en-US/Faqs.htm#galileo (Windows Development Center for IoT on GitHub)>