It is the latter which has most business potential, but go to Microsoft’s Windows 10 IoT Core developer site and you see sample applications with a hobbyist feel, such as an Air Hockey Robot and a connected clock radio. It seems to have two goals in mind one is to support the hobbyist “Maker” community in order to attract developers to its platform, and the other is to provide large businesses with an end-to-end IoT solution.
The way Microsoft presents IoT Core is puzzling. In particular, you can build applications in Visual Studio using C#, C++ or a variety of other languages you can enrol IoT Core devices for management with System Center Configuration Manager and you can easily connect IoT Core with Azure services for processing data. This is Windows, then, but there are some attractions. Oddly, this worked fine when done later in a remote session. I also experienced a number of annoyances in a brief hands-on, with failure dialogue boxes from the browser-based dashboard and oddities such as a refusal to set the keyboard layout to other than “English (United States)” I selected a different keyboard, the screen went grey, then came back without changing it. It is taking ages, whereas when I have done Linux updates on a Pi it is generally quicker and does not require a reboot.
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The company has also announced support for Intel Joule, an Internet of Things (IoT) compute module launched at the August 2016 Intel Developer Forum, though Windows software for this is not yet publicly available.Īs I type, I am watching Windows 10 IoT Core apply a system update on a Raspberry Pi 3. Hands on Microsoft has released Windows 10 Anniversary for IoT Core, a version of Windows which runs on Raspberry Pi 2 or 3, Dragonboard or Minnowboard. Reddit Neat platform but should we just use Linux?