Arduino has today announced via the official Arduino blog that the latest Arduino IDE 1.6.10, AVR core 1.6.12 and SAM core 1.6.9 have now been released and are now available to download.

Microsoft has released the first Windows 10 IoT preview for Raspberry Pi 2 and other small computing devices, but it’s far from a full-blown version of the operating system.

Last summer, when the Windows Dev Center announced Windows 10 support for IoT devices, there was a lot of excitement--and skepticism--in the maker community. Anecdotally, at least, it's a Linux crowd.