Microsoft is expanding a program to put Windows in smart devices, robots and Internet-connected appliances, following overwhelming response for developer hardware.

The company is putting a stripped-down version of Windows 8 on Intel’s Galileo development board to bring the OS to a “smaller class of devices,” said Colin Murphy, senior technical product manager at Microsoft, during an interview at the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco.

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Intel’s Galileo board running Window.

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