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What in the world is an Arduino Yun doing in this picture of Windows devices: http://files.tested.com/photos/2014/09/30/68049-windows_prod...

See item on farthest left, it's an Arduino Yun board without the sticker: http://arduino.cc/en/Main/ArduinoBoardYun?from=Products.Ardu...

The Yun has a 400mhz MIPS processor (and an 8-bit AVR for Arduino compatibility) that runs Linux and I would wager will never run a variant of Windows 10. Did somebody in marketing or whatever just search for Arduino and slap the first picture they saw on the slide?

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Those are vary similar boards, but I don't think there identical. On the bottom right of the Arduino there are 4 holes that line up with six others on the left side of the board. Note how there not parrellel with the bottom. Now compare that with the windows show it's got a line on the left bit it's not continued on the right side.

My guess is it's a different Arduino board or an x86 board that's trying to fit the same form factor which uses similar chips in similar places.

It looks like an Intel Gallieo Board

http://dev.windows.com/en-us/featured/Windows-Developer-Prog...

Good catch! I suspect it is more like they wanted to convey the message Windows 10 can also be used in embedded applications currently covered by e.g. Windows Embedded Compact 7. Someone in marketing did an image search for "embedded board" or something, and added the best looking image, which accidentally turns out to be a Yun.

Yeah, weird they didn't put in an Intel Galileo or Edison, since those are actual embedded boards that can run Windows (Galileo at least, but I'd be shocked if Edison doesn't run Windows for IoT/devices/embedded whatever too).

Or maybe it's all a secret project to massively slim Windows down so it can run in the AVR's 2 kilobytes of memory. BillG can revise his quote to be, '2K ought to be enough for anybody'. :)

Maybe resurrect .Net MicroFramework with http://netduino.com/ ?

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa448707.aspx

Windows CE has been running on MIPS for some time. It is likely that this sort of support has allowed Microsoft to run embedded solutions (such as Ford Sync, which was built on top of ARM)

Maybe they're resurrecting the historic support Windows NT had for MIPS?

> At the other end of the spectrum, there are hospital emergency rooms and pacemakers running Windows. It would be the wrong thing (always up-to-date) on those devices.

From the original link.

Like I said the Yun does not and I would bet never will run Windows. If you can get Windows 10 to run on a 400mhz MIPS processor with 64mb of memory and 16mb of storage I would be genuinely impressed. I pointed it out because it's funny, like taking a picture of an iMac and slapping a Windows start menu on it.

Windows NT 3.1 ran on a 66Mhz with 16MB ram, the MIPS and Alpha versions that also existed at the time were incredibly fast if you could afford the hardware (I could not).

Theoretically, an embedded version of just the Windows kernel and basic services might fit that profile, if Microsoft were to resurrect a MIPS version. Also, Windows Phone runs on hardware that's not much faster.

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