Internet related News · 2015-08-11

Microsoft releases Windows 10 version for IoT

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Windows 10 IOT Core

Soon after the launch of its latest operating system, Windows 10, Microsoft today announced it was also releasing Windows 10 IoT Core for the Raspberry Pi 2 and the MinnowBoard Max. This was essentially aimed at the Internet of Things (IoT).

Developers may visit the Windows IoT Dev Center to choose their target board, then walk through the steps to provision the board, acquire the tools, in order to get started. This release of Windows 10 IoT Core requires a development machine running the 7/29/2015 release of Windows 10 (Build 10240) and Visual Studio 2015.

Windows 10 IoT Core was a new edition for Windows targeted at small, embedded devices that may or may not have screens. For devices with screens, Windows 10 IoT Core did not have a Windows shell experience; instead you can write a Universal Windows app that was the interface and “personality” for your device. IoT core was designed to have a low barrier to entry and made it easy to build professional grade devices. It’s was also designed to work with a variety of open source languages and works well with Visual Studio.

So what’s really new in this release?

The first public preview of Windows 10 IoT Core was released at the ‘ build/ conference.’ Following that, Microsoft had made progress in this version including the addition of Wi Fi and Bluetooth connectivity.

Here are some of the new features and improvements:

Improved support for Python and Node.js, including a new Express Node.js project template
GPIO performance on the Raspberry Pi 2 has improved by 8X to 10X
Analog-to-digital converter (ADC) and pulse-width modulation (PWM) are now supported via breakout boards and ICs
New Universal Windows Platform (UWP) APIs give apps easy control over system management features like time zone and network connections

Microsoft said on its blog that the developer experience was high priority. “Our philosophy is that we want to make it easy for developers to use the languages and frameworks they prefer to build IoT device apps. This means full support for the standard UWP languages like C++, C#, JS and VB, but it also means bringing support – including full tools, debugging, and project systems – for Node.js and Python,” it said in the post.

 
Image Credit: Windows 10 blog

 

 

 

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