When it comes to the full desktop version of Windows 10, co-creator of the Raspberry Pi Eben Upton said ahead of the Pi 4's launch that he believes the Pi 4 has the power to run Windows 10 on Arm but that support was a "question for Microsoft". It could even be that Microsoft is planning larger changes to the OS to take advantage of the Pi 4's significant bump in power, with the low-cost board supporting up to 4GB DDR4 RAM, a new CPU and GPU, and dual 4K displays. However, the fact that the Pi 3 B+ is supported, albeit with a variety of issues, in the latest technical preview builds of Windows 10 IoT Core suggests Microsoft hasn't given up on Pi support.
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In general, Windows 10 IoT Core is lagging behind its desktop counterpart, with no final version of the May 2019 Update, version 1903, released for Windows 10 IoT Core as yet. The situation even prompted one Microsoft employee to put together an unofficial guide for getting Windows 10 IoT Core to work on the Pi 3 B+ using an unsupported technical preview The lack of support on the Pi 4 is perhaps no surprise given there's no official support for the previous generation Pi 3 B+. These apps could do anything from taking readings from a temperature sensor, to acting as a simple web server. The real purpose of Windows 10 IoT Core on the Pi is to run small applications, which are deployed to the board from a PC. This OS won't boot you into the traditional Windows desktop, but instead is designed to only run a single front end Universal Windows Platform (UWP) app at a time. It's important to note that Windows 10 IoT Core is not the same version of Windows 10 that runs on a desktop PC, but is a far simpler, stripped-back release. When approached for clarification, a Microsoft spokesperson said the only official comment was that "we are excited to see the new RPi4 platform and are evaluating the numerous changes in the hardware". "Given the need for a new Raspbian OS, we do not expect the existing FFUs for Windows 10 IoT Core to be compatible with this platform," she wrote.
The uncertain future of Windows 10 on the Pi came to the fore again recently, when a Microsoft Contingent Staff member said she did not expect Windows 10 IoT Core to be compatible with the recently released Raspberry Pi 4.
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