Free Raspberry Pi Type Board From MS!

[SunnyD]

Thanks Perk... I've been eyeing up the Intel-based IoT platforms for a while. Given Microsoft is on board with it, and the price is right (re: Free), this is right up my alley of expertise now.

 

[PottedMeat]

what emails are you using to get responses? my hotmail didn't get a response (a few days ago), haven't tried gmail yet

 

[janeuner]

Aye, the websited indicated I'd get a message in my hotmail account; never got an email.

If I was Microsoft, I would totally filter out those hotmail.com accounts.

 

[Elixer]

I noticed hotmail doesn't work... gmail does, in that, you get a response within 10 mins.
Nothing for hotmail, not in junk, not anyplace.

 

[SunnyD]

I noticed hotmail doesn't work... gmail does, in that, you get a response within 10 mins.
Nothing for hotmail, not in junk, not anyplace.

Err... hotmail works fine.

 

[PottedMeat]

Err... hotmail works fine.

not mine (pretty old hotmail acct too), i just used gmail - got a response in 10 minutes. hopefully they don't trash my info because i entered in more than one email.

 

[Elixer]

not mine (pretty old hotmail acct too), i just used gmail - got a response in 10 minutes. hopefully they don't trash my info because i entered in more than one email.

Ditto, the account I used is over 12 years old...

 

[SunnyD]

In all honesty, it *could* be that I have used my hotmail account before and it's linked to the fact that I am a Microsoft Partner...

 

[coloumb]

Awesome..it does seem to work.

"Thank you for signing up for the Windows Developer Program for IoT. We’ll let you know when your kit has shipped"

 

[hansmuff]

Thank you for signing up for the Windows Developer Program for IoT. We’ll let you know when we have more to share.


Thank you,

The Microsoft IoT Team

This is what I got after I gave them address etc. I suppose they are limiting supply.

 

[v8envy]

Got the same response. Just as well, I'm far more familiar with Linux than Windows when it comes to slinging code.

 

[ultimatebob]

This is what I got after I gave them address etc. I suppose they are limiting supply.

Yeah, I got the same depressing e-mail. Lame.

 

[twinrider1]

I didn't even get that. Nada for me. Life goes on.

 

[ultimatebob]

I didn't even get that. Nada for me. Life goes on.

I'm kinda bummed that I didn't get picked, though. I used the same Microsoft account that I used to sign up for the Windows 8 beta and my Microsoft Azure demo account. They should know that I'm not messing around.

 

[KillerBee]

still not sure if I got picked - last email said:

Thank you for signing up for the Windows Developer Program for IoT. We’ll let you know when we have more to share.

Thank you,
The Microsoft IoT Team

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Has anyone been sent any hardware yet?


I just hope they realize the potential in my FTL project

 

[mikeford]

These boards are likely cheaper than the cheapest human time to decide who should get one, so demand most likely exceeded supply and more will show up.

Shipping and handling costs may also exceed board costs, so shipping via slowest and cheapest could mean a few weeks before they start showing up.

 

[formulav8]

I used my Hotmail as well and no email from them.

 

[smackababy]

I used my gmail and didn't get an email. You guys pick different options maybe? I answered honestly (in that I have zero experience with any type of small board like this and a ton of coding experience in multiple languages), perhaps I didn't make the grade. =(

 

[KillerBee]

I received a reply with a long url afterwards to update shipping address
but no matter what browser I use IE ,Chrome,Firefox
it just shows a blank page

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We want to thank you for your interest on windowsondevices.com, and we are super excited to have you participate in the Windows Developer Program for IoT.

We would like to share our SDK and a hardware development kit with you. In order to consider you for the program and mail you the kit, please click on the link below to provide your address and a bit more information.

(url deleted)
===============================================================

 

[hansmuff]

These boards are likely cheaper than the cheapest human time to decide who should get one, so demand most likely exceeded supply and more will show up.

Shipping and handling costs may also exceed board costs, so shipping via slowest and cheapest could mean a few weeks before they start showing up.

Don't be too sure. I mean, those aren't $1000+ devices we're talking, but sometimes MS makes some pretty generous programs. When they tried getting a foothold into PDAs they gave away Viewsonic V37s which weren't the greatest PDAs on the market but not really cheap either.

 

[Cerb]

These boards are likely cheaper than the cheapest human time to decide who should get one, so demand most likely exceeded supply and more will show up.

Shipping and handling costs may also exceed board costs, so shipping via slowest and cheapest could mean a few weeks before they start showing up.

So, they're shipping them insured overnight? The boards retail for $70-80, Mouser has them for $66, and no qty price breaks that I can find. Demand is definitely exceeding supply, though. Cheap enough for promotion, and likely good embedded Windows devices (or will be, if not yet), but not quite that cheap, at least not yet.

 

[SunnyD]

So, they're shipping them insured overnight? The boards retail for $70-80, Mouser has them for $66, and no qty price breaks that I can find. Demand is definitely exceeding supply, though. Cheap enough for promotion, and likely good embedded Windows devices (or will be, if not yet), but not quite that cheap, at least not yet.

If Mouser is selling them for $66, that means Microsoft is getting them directly from Intel for probably around $25.

 

[mikeford]

OTOH as was pointed out a pro mini sells for about $3 shipped on ebay, obvious I have no clue regards the details of either board, but you really never can tell.

 

[Cerb]

OTOH as was pointed out a pro mini sells for about $3 shipped on ebay, obvious I have no clue regards the details of either board, but you really never can tell.

The Arduino Pro Mini, which I may end up getting for power control (OT: the BBB can be fried with voltage on its GPIO pins during power loss, but does not have integrated any means for safe power cycling with peripherals attached), uses an Atmel uC with 1K RAM, 16K storage, and runs at up to 16MHz. Galileo has 256MB RAM, 8MB storage, PCIe, Ethernet, a full USB 2.0 host controller, uSD slot, and runs a 400MHz Penitum-compatible CPU. IO capability is similar between them. Also, the Pro Mini lacks a convenient USB programming interface (the Nano, for $3.50-4, has one).

 

[Bad Dude]

Is this offer over, I don't see a link to order it.
Thanks.