Windows 10 IoT Core is a stripped down version of Microsoft’s flagship Windows operating system aimed at simple, Internet of Things-oriented devices. Today, the software giant announced that it will be teaming up with Adafruit to produce a kit to highlight the new operating system’s capabilities.
“We’re proud to announce that we are partnering with Adafruit to release a new Starter Kit designed to get you started quickly and easily on your path of learning either electronics or Windows 10 IoT Core and the Raspberry Pi 2,” wrote Microsoft spokesperson Steve Teixeira.
The starter kit will include a set of sensors and electronics, and will come with an SD preloaded with Windows 10 IoT Core, documentation, and sample code. The kit will be on display at Microsoft’s booth at the World Maker Faire in New York on September 26 and 27.
Reconciliation?
Adafruit and Microsoft have historically had a chilly relationship. Back in 2010, Adafruit offered a $2,000 bounty to any hacker who could write an open source driver for the recently-released Kinect, a motion-sensing input device for Microsoft’s Xbox 360 console.
Microsoft, however, wasn’t pleased with Adafruit’s offer.
“Microsoft does not condone the modification of its products,” a Microsoft spokesperson told CNET of the Adafruit challenge in response. “With Kinect, Microsoft built in numerous hardware and software safeguards designed to reduce the chances of product tampering. Microsoft will continue to make advances in these types of safeguards and work closely with law enforcement and product safety groups to keep Kinect tamper-resistant.”
Adafruit, impishly, responded by increasing the bounty to $3,000.
The partnership between the two companies could signal a thawing of that relationship — or perhaps not. Asked whether the starter kit indicated that relations between the two companies had warmed since 2010, a Microsoft spokesperson declined to comment.
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I wonder if this light version of Windows 10 has all the snoopsoft that the full version of Windows 10 has enabled by default…
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That’s an interesting question. I’ll look into it this week.
Make sure you don’t take your tin foil hat off. They’re listening.
That’s funny, but the systems in place in Windows 10 that tell Microsoft all the files you have on your computer are not. Here are a couple of articles on it. One that agrees with me and one that agrees with you. Funnily enough, the one that agrees with you will sometimes agree with me.
http://www.techtimes.com/articles/73725/20150802/windows-10-spies-on-you-by-default-heres-how-to-opt-out.htm
http://www.zdnet.com/article/no-microsoft-is-not-spying-on-you-with-windows-10/
I can see a possible benefit to a full stack Microsoft shop with using Win10 IoT on the RasPi, but for everyone else I just don’t see the point. Getting Iot on the SD card like this bundle provides was the easy part, compared to getting the dev environment set up with Win10 and VS2015.