The miniature PC will be sold at the Microsoft Store this summer and is designed to be more affordable to encourage developers to create ARM64 apps for Snapdragon-based PCs.

So far developers have had to buy devices like the Surface Pro X to fully test their ARM64 apps on Windows which sets them back at least $999.

Vole and Qualcomm haven't put a price on this new dev kit, there are promises it will be more affordable than what developers pay today.

Qualcomm senior director of product management Miguel Nunes said: "This developer kit provides an affordable alternative to other consumer and commercial devices. With the smaller desktop configuration, this kit gives developers more flexibility than notebook options, and at a lower price point."

Meanwhile, Vole is making the promised support for Linux graphical user interface (GUI) apps on Windows 10 available to customers as of the next Windows 10 release, officials.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella told the assembled throngs at its virtual Build 2021 developers conference that there would be another event "soon" about the next Windows.

He said: "And soon we will share one of the most significant updates of Windows of the past decade." He said he has been self-hosting it over the past several months and called it "the next generation of Windows".

Microsoft released a preview of Linux GUI apps on the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) in April 2021. This capability is meant to allow developers to run their preferred Linux tools, utilities and apps directly on Windows 10. With GUI app support, users can now run GUI apps for testing, development and daily use without having to set up a virtual machine.