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Free Intel Galileo Board from Microsoft

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Free Intel Galileo Board from Microsoft
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lukeloop on 06/07/2014 - 00:13 windowsondevices.com (29721 clicks)
Last edited 09/07/2014 - 09:15 by 1 other user

A free Intel Galileo board from Microsoft. Don't abuse it, happy creating.

Valued over $100 ?

The next big thing is small
From the website:
"We’re bringing Windows to a whole new class of small devices. Build a smart coffee mug, build a talking bear, build a robot, or build something else entirely. All this using a platform and tools you already know and love."

After you enter your email address you will receive a confirmation email , which will contain a link. Open the link and enter your information, you should then get an email saying "Thank you for signing up for the Windows Developer Program for IoT. We’ll let you know when your kit has shipped.". You do not need to prove your a software programmer/engineer to get the Intel Galileo board

Edit: some are having more success going to the website https://www.windowsondevices.com/ without clicking via OzBargain website.

I got mine from a gmail account

Some users are reporting emails are not being received to free email addresses. If you don't receive email confirmation within a few hours, try an alternative address (preferably an ISP or work email address).

*** twitter posts and photos are indicating there is hardware not just whitepaper**

"The Intel Galileo included with the Windows Developer Program for IoT kit will run a special version of Windows for the Intel Galileo"

https://twitter.com/stevetex/status/481162124689813504/photo…

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    • parcus on 06/07/2014 - 15:11

      Tried again this morning with my uni email address and it came through immediately.

      • wired00 on 07/07/2014 - 07:16

        I'll try my uni email noe too

        • wired00 on 07/07/2014 - 12:53

          Ok no idea why, but as people suggested I tried Internet Explorer and email came through instantly. (Using windows 7)

  • kytosol on 06/07/2014 - 02:53
    +1

    Signed up. It'll be interesting to see if they actually send a device. I'm super keen to have a play around and see what I can code and make it do.

  • GnarlyKnuckles on 06/07/2014 - 03:32
    +4

    This reminds me of the "DNA T-shirts"… am I right that NONE of them were ever actually received? I.e., Ozbargain essentially killed the offer, completely?

    • BeefBiryani on 06/07/2014 - 07:38

      That reminds me. I signed up for that like eons ago.

  • Logical on 06/07/2014 - 03:35

    no email yet

  • Mumbles on 06/07/2014 - 03:36
    +4

    "The sky is the limit". Aaargh this could be Skynet. Or at least the brain for a cyborg soldier.

  • peteru on 06/07/2014 - 03:43
    +3

    No email after a few hours. Bummer! This is actually something I would hack on and make use of. I've been working with Open Embedded for a while now, so it would be interesting to see how the Microsoft development environment compares.

    • Elijha on 06/07/2014 - 03:45

      Same. Would have been interesting.

  • jimm9 on 06/07/2014 - 03:59

    Same, No emails yet…

  • bleugh on 06/07/2014 - 04:11
    +8

    There's a good chance you're a week or so behind the rush on this one. Their website went live a few months back and was communicated to a few in the industry as 'coming soon, sign up' .about a week ago an email and (personalised, unique) survey link was sent to subscribers asking for your experience and what you'd be doing with the board.
    A further email then was then sent to say 'we will be in contact when we post' it does state a development kit and sdk.
    Just be careful here, a LOT of you will have to lie on the form that's filled out (experience with with key windows languages, actually knowing what an sdk is / does
    There's a good chance that m$ will pick the spike late this week and send further 'test' emails or just not send things at all (doubtful OZ even has a few tens of thousands of .net programmers, let alone thousands that would be online at the same time coming from the same oz bargain.com click link!)

    Edit….
    Confirmation email for me took around ten hours after filling out the form and that was on the day the 'offer' went live

    • bjonbjonbjon on 06/07/2014 - 11:59
      +2

      So why didn't you share it on ozb when you first heard it.

      • Crownanchor on 06/07/2014 - 12:11

        Thats right, why didnt you post bleugh? This free Galileo is the deal of 2014

      • bleugh on 08/07/2014 - 13:38
        +4

        May I ask bjonbjonbjon why you've not posted ANYTHING at all in your four year membership of this site?

    • russbot on 06/07/2014 - 15:15

      I signed up last night but never received anything.
      Signed up again with a different email address and checked more MS related languages. Got the email straight away and entered my address. Now the wait begins…

  • [Deactivated] on 06/07/2014 - 04:47

    Hmm so no hope for hoarders :(

  • ASAPNow on 06/07/2014 - 06:55

    ummm fingers crossed.

  • BH1 on 06/07/2014 - 07:46
    +1

    Specs & comparison with the Raspberry Pi

    http://au.mouser.com/applications/open-source-hardware-galil…

    FYI on use/project there is NO GPU & looking like a struggle to get one(early stages).

    Read:
    https://communities.intel.com/mobile/mobile-access.jspa#jive…

    If u do not require display well go for it(may come in the future).

  • MMM on 06/07/2014 - 07:59
    +4

    MUST have FREE thingy I love FREE, so what will you do with it? its to go with all my other FREE thingy's from OZ bargain and its worth $100 bucks, wahooo and its FREE Bro so I need it! (Just kidding I haven't ordered one) but up voting for you all you guys that will create life saving applications… Beer retrieval units… robot girlfriends etc.

  • mshanann on 06/07/2014 - 08:25

    No mention on http://hackaday.com or it's forums.

  • rarrrgh on 06/07/2014 - 08:53
    +2

    site looks sketchy. cue spam.

    • Goose256 on 06/07/2014 - 13:07

      Just thought about this after I signed up… And of course, looking at the emails, they don't look entirely legitimate. I guess there is no such thing as a free lunch.

    • edrift on 07/07/2014 - 12:16

      Chrome is throwing this warning:

      This is probably not the site you are looking for!
      You attempted to reach www.windowsondevices.com, but instead you actually reached a server identifying itself as *.azurewebsites.net. This may be caused by a misconfiguration on the server or by something more serious. An attacker on your network could be trying to get you to visit a fake (and potentially harmful) version of www.windowsondevices.com.
      You should not proceed, especially if you have never seen this warning before for this site.

      • [Deactivated] on 08/07/2014 - 17:33

        I don't get that warning, however azurewebsites.net is the base domain for Microsoft's website hosting cloud platform:
        http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Azure_Websites

        The warning you get is a result of either the website having a misconfigured 'chain of trust' or your web browser not having one of the certificates listed in that chain of trust in its trusted store. (Since it works fine for others, that would indicate the latter is more likely.)

        Your browser is not saying the website is dodgy, just warning you it cannot trust the secure connection.

  • power71 on 06/07/2014 - 09:24

    In layman's terms, what does this thing do?!?

    • some_one_some_where on 06/07/2014 - 09:27

      It's free so it may not do anything! It could just sit with your other ozb collection :)

    • ferguscan on 06/07/2014 - 12:26

      It's a compruta.

  • rr64 on 06/07/2014 - 09:50

    I'll give it a go if they ever send it! Not like my spam mailbox isn't filled with crap anyway.

    • [Deactivated] on 06/07/2014 - 09:57
      +1

      I'm pretty sure they already have my hotmail account details anyways?

  • stumo on 06/07/2014 - 10:18

    Wheres my email?

    • muncan on 06/07/2014 - 10:23
      +4

      Where's my elephant?

      • Alzori on 06/07/2014 - 11:59

        What is the difference between a duck?

      • Infraction on 07/07/2014 - 12:32

        I'm gonna call him Stampy

  • tyler.durden on 06/07/2014 - 10:25

    Same here,

    no email confirmation

  • jimmej on 06/07/2014 - 10:26
    +1

    So the email didn't turn up for me…

    So I tried my work email as I would actually use this at work as I am a electronics engineer. Email turned up instantly.

    I think they are probably filtering ozbargainers ;)

    • tyler.durden on 06/07/2014 - 10:32

      how can they filter it, we use gmail. and hotmail accounts

      • jimmej on 06/07/2014 - 10:33

        The other thing I did was not use the link on ozbargain…

      • [Deactivated] on 06/07/2014 - 11:42

        Does it help that I'm using my own domain name? And I got the email within 1 minute?
        On top it says the link goes to " www.windowsondevices.com" So you type that in, not clicking on "Go to Deal"

    • [Deactivated] on 06/07/2014 - 10:36
      +2

      Details here
      www.microsoft.com/filters/ozbargain.html

      Damn.

    • MrNeil on 06/07/2014 - 10:51

      ditto, except the electronics engineer bit.

  • [Deactivated] on 06/07/2014 - 10:30

    I just signed up and got confirmation email straight away.

    • Less Point on 06/07/2014 - 10:55
      +2

      It's not the OP's fault you used a gmail/hotmail address. No need to continually sook about it.

  • lukeloop on 06/07/2014 - 10:32

    Still alive, just got this, made a few …….. for privacy..

    Hello ……….. ,

    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 mail you the kit, please click on the link below to provide your address and a bit more information.

    https://www.windowsondevices.com/Update.aspx?guid=lwEqo6tAxX…. c

    We’re happy to be able to share this early preview with you, and can’t wait to see what you can make with it!

    Thank you,

    Microsoft IoT Team

      • lukeloop on 06/07/2014 - 10:45
        +9

        dont be silly, i removed some of the code .. i dont want everyone responding to my email link.

        After filling in my details and sending email i got this..

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

        Thank you,

        Microsoft IoT Team

        • Tal_Shiar on 06/07/2014 - 14:47

          Haha Kelso burn!

  • Nilfunds on 06/07/2014 - 10:32
    -1

    remember last time you got something for free from Microsoft?
    no, neither do I.

    this looks dodgy, singed up, wouldnt mind the board, oh crap, a pig just flew past my window, gtg

    • tomclancy on 06/07/2014 - 11:03
      +5

      remember last time you got something for free from Microsoft?

      I got a free email address from them

    • Matt88 on 06/07/2014 - 13:43
      +1

      Free cloud storage - My OneDrive account has about 48GB of free storage space (20GB of which expires next January but I don't use that much).

    • mackaxx on 06/07/2014 - 14:59
      +1

      Free windows 8 upgrade (worked on old and new computer) free media center upgrade, office for free as a student a few times, free cloud, heaps if free xbox games.

      Yeah, I remember a few occasions

      I also remember paying for patches on a mac and even for an iPod. Those were the days, do they still charge for minor iOS updates?

    • FabMan on 06/07/2014 - 16:43

      At University they gave me Windows and Office for free.

    • Mergatroid on 08/07/2014 - 12:31
      +1

      The Aqueducts!?

  • Nilfunds on 06/07/2014 - 10:33

    oh, email has arrived:

    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 mail you the kit, please click on the link below to provide your address and a bit more information.

    https://www.windowsondevices.com/Update.aspx?guid=XwWgzLEfSv…

    We’re happy to be able to share this early preview with you, and can’t wait to see what you can make with it!

    Thank you,

    Microsoft IoT Team

  • bargdebarg on 06/07/2014 - 10:34

    Email confirmation, then gave address and got second email confirming they will ship asap! Considering the number of clicks, I'm not confident they'll honour this.

    • bobdane1 on 06/07/2014 - 10:41

      Same as above.

    • Jamiea on 06/07/2014 - 10:54

      Yep, same here.

  • PowerB on 06/07/2014 - 10:41
    +1

    For those not getting the email, try going to https://www.windowsondevices.com (without going through the OzBargain link) and try with a different email. My Internode email didn't get a confirmation but my .edu.au did.

    • tyler.durden on 06/07/2014 - 10:57
      -8

      Who are negging this comment?

      This is a true statement

      Windows Developer Program for IoT [email protected] via sendgrid.info

      • Less Point on 06/07/2014 - 11:01
        +1

        I'd have negged it if I hadn't already used them all on your posts.

        Nothing wrong with sendgrid

        SendGrid is the world's largest Email Infrastructure as a Service provider.

        Our email delivery service moves 2% of the world's non-spam email (over 13 billion emails / month) for more than 150,000 companies including technology leaders like Pinterest, Spotify, and Uber.

    • swilsonau on 06/07/2014 - 13:00
      +4

      Domain is registered to MSFT and is pointing to MSFT.net Nameservers. The IP Address record also belongs to MSFT:

      NetRange: 137.117.0.0 - 137.117.255.255
      CIDR: 137.117.0.0/16
      OriginAS:
      NetName: MICROSOFT

  • giggles on 06/07/2014 - 10:42

    ooooh, 10/100 LAN interface. I can downgrade my router finally!

    • Elijha on 06/07/2014 - 11:54
      +9

      You don't have any idea what this is for do you?

  • tyler.durden on 06/07/2014 - 10:45
    -6

    $70 per board

    I doubt this is legit deal…

    • suchsavings on 06/07/2014 - 10:47
      -5

      yep its fake, and people are negging the facts

    • Less Point on 06/07/2014 - 10:51
      +3

      Calm down mate.

      Mark Monitor is a service which stops brandjacking. Google uses them too. They register and manage domains on behalf of corporations such as MS and Googs.

    • lukeloop on 06/07/2014 - 10:56
      +1

      Thanks for the short summary..!! You are wrong anyway in thinking it is not legit.

  • lukeloop on 06/07/2014 - 10:46
    +1

    After filling in my details and sending email i got this..

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

    Thank you,

    Microsoft IoT Team

  • Less Point on 06/07/2014 - 10:46

    Last night I signed up with a gmail account - nothing.

    10 minutes ago I tried again with my university .edu.au account - confirmation email came through immediately. Also, I copied/pasted the link in the address bar so that they can't see that I came from Ozbargain.

    Clicking on the link in the confirmation email leads to another form where you put in your address and a bit about what you will use it for, and what programming languages and IDEs you have used.

    Then got another confirmation email which said:

    My Name,

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

    Thank you,

    Microsoft IoT Team

  • charlie123 on 06/07/2014 - 10:47

    Yup, got email confirmation. They will send one more email when shipped.

  • smerm07 on 06/07/2014 - 10:51

    received my email as well, using my work email address. My gmail and outlook.com did not receive any email.

  • goblues on 06/07/2014 - 10:51

    Should be interesting. Signed up for this. See how it goes.

  • unifex on 06/07/2014 - 10:59

    Is this real? I checked the domain ownership and it says microsoft but the registrar is different from the one microsoft uses. Seems odd that microsoft would use a different registrar for this site.

    • Less Point on 06/07/2014 - 11:07
      +1

      MarkMonitor would not register the domain if it weren't legit. That's their job.

      Also, take a look at the SSL cert.

      • unifex on 06/07/2014 - 11:18

        ahhh ssl cert good idea.

  • Your Friend on 06/07/2014 - 11:17

    I got my confirmation email 5 minutes after filling in the form.

  • ValMalSki on 06/07/2014 - 11:28

    Don't use the Ozbargain link, hotmail works fine (MS thing I guess) got emails and now the waiting game begins. Tried Optus email account and it didn't work so meh.

    Edit: just got the email on Optus account

    • AuSlade on 06/07/2014 - 12:09

      I tried again with my tpg account and it worked fine. Gmail never came through.
      If it turns up, neat. I think I'm going to have to learn how to program Arduino boards now.

  • cantstanzya on 06/07/2014 - 11:30

    I'm still waiting on the second confirmation email after you give them your address.
    *just got it now

  • stumo on 06/07/2014 - 11:31

    So…. When will we be seeing these show up on eBay, brand new factory sealed.

    I'm an embedded software engineer. And even if I do receive it, it may still never be opened lol.

  • Gina Rinehart on 06/07/2014 - 11:33
    +3

    I wonder how many of these devices are going to be sent to people who have no need to own them, and will just put them in some big box of other freebie-acquired junk.

    I doubt everyone who is getting one plans on developing for this platform, which is what it's really for…

  • siuol on 06/07/2014 - 11:35

    Doesn't matter on how powerful is this motherboard. Most of them given out to OzBarginers will just be a static display or being left in the box comes with it untouched and become vintage in 30 years time.

    As if everyone here know how to turn this into a useful piece.

    • IslandStyle on 06/07/2014 - 12:29

      You're probably right by saying most of them will just be a static display but there are some of us that are genuinely interested in getting on board (pun intended) and getting familiarised with the platform and SDK. Of course not everyone here knows how to design and build something useful out of this but isn't that part of the point, i.e. gaining interest from designer/developer enthusiasts who are keen to expand their knowledge and turn ideas into real-world solutions?

      So what are you planning to do with it if you receive it?

      • siuol on 06/07/2014 - 12:34

        I did not request for one. Want to save the Earth bit by bit by reducing the pollution.

  • aous on 06/07/2014 - 11:36
    +1

    I used Firefox.
    I copied and pasted the link "https://www.windowsondevices.com" into Firefox (did not click) and I used my work email.
    I got the reply email almost instantaneously.

    Hope this helps.

    • thelastnoob on 06/07/2014 - 12:10

      This worked with my ipad and gmail address I tried last night
      Also I clicked on 2 different windows program experience and 2 of the languages then selected rasp

  • dekekun on 06/07/2014 - 11:37

    Like the others, I used my work email and it came through instantly.

    Maybe the OP should be edited?

  • mrandyree on 06/07/2014 - 11:43

    My bigpond email worked fine. Sounds like they are blocking free email providers…

  • OzBen on 06/07/2014 - 11:46

    Used work email. Got same confirmation messages as others within a couple of minutes.

  • ddhytz on 06/07/2014 - 11:48

    Got first confirmation email to hotmail within a couple of minutes.

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