Windows 10 iot core raspberry pi 4 windows#
It’s not perfect and there are issues we’ve come across with Windows IoT that will only be fixed when/if Microsoft get to them – that’s a downside of a non open source operating system of course. From a commercial viewpoint, Windows IoT having this incorporated with no development effort or potential for developers to manually implement it incorrectly and end up risking bricking lots of customers devices out in the wild is really important. It should be baked into the OS and just work. IoT devices and all other devices running an operating system need to be constantly updated with security patches and it shouldn’t be left to developers to have to try and find complex ways of making it happen automatically. This is a key issue and Microsoft gets this by forcing it to happen. If you want to use Win10 IoT commercially it’s a licensing requirement that you permit updates. Microsoft forces the OS to be updated.Whilst XAML GUI development in Visual Studio isn’t as easy as older Windows forms development, its still way above anything we’ve found in Linux and Visual Studio is just a joy to use for GUI apps. We love working in Visual Studio and whilst we like using NetBeans for Raspbian Linux based development work, trying to design a graphical user interface when we need to do this under Linux we’ve always found incredibly painful and slow. It’s fully supported by Visual Studio, which is also free.Microsoft has made it available for free, for both personal and commercial uses.We have another mini web site with our resources on Win10 IoT Core for the Raspberry Pi which is at:Ī lot of our own use of the Raspberry Pi is for commercial projects and Windows IoT Core brings along several advantages in this area for us on some projects: