Microsoft has announced the public release of the Windows 10 IoT Core – a lighter version of the Windows 10 OS which is created for connected devices under the Internet of Things (IoT) platform.
Majorly, the Windows 10 IoT Core is targeted at small and embedded devices with or without a screen, however, the OS doesn’t not have a full Windows Shell experience. In place of this, developers are able to write a universal app which would serve as an interface for the device.
The developer experience has been a high priority for our team as we’ve built Windows 10 IoT Core, and we hope this shows when constructing apps for this platform. 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.
Windows 10 IoT Core is available for two of the popular tiny computers – the Raspberry Pi 2 which costs about $40 and MinnowBoard MAX which costs about $140 as free download from Microsoft. According to Microsoft, to use the core, developers will need to have Windows 10 Build 10240, as well as Visual Studio 2015.
