I, too, am hoping that a revision is released that adds M.2 support as this will finally enable our development teams to share a common mid-tier prototyping platform and development assets. In terms of Microsoft, unless I missed it or a surprise is forthcoming, crickets! Baffling!įully agree with you on the PI 4 as being a great platform for proof-of-concept, though we must use industrial-specification HW for our operational deployments. In contrast, their competitors are moving aggressively to provide integrated cloud services and robust gateway offerings along with device-level OSs for uniformity down to the edge sensors. So, Windows 10 IoT Enterprise is out and, from my understanding, there is no other Microsoft gateway platform offering to govern sensor constellations at-the-edge. My surprise is that Microsoft is marketing their IoT stack to many of our very-large clients that need huge numbers of IoT gateways for their rollouts and thus are sensitive to per node pricing. However, I am inclined to believe that you may indeed be right. Certainly, we hope it is understandable that if there is no responsive reply to this inquiry we have no choice but to consider Windows IoT Core as being End-of-Life and act accordingly.įeel free to reach out to us via my contact info, if not enough time has elapsed to allow for discovery, consultation and a considered response to my inquiry. We simply want to make a platform selection where it is evident there is a corporate commitment and on-going support/innovation thus affording flexibility to meet our customer's evolving needs. Alternatively, if Microsoft has indeed made a business decision to forsake Windows 10 IoT Core, fine. If there is updated guidance from Microsoft in favor of a future for this product, we welcome it. Yet, the lack of movement on the Core for 2 years is telling. Yes, we saw your statement about not wanting to "abandon our developer community" which does inspires some hope. However, reading this forum there are hints that no resources are allocated for improving Windows 10 IoT Core and it has potentially been orphaned. As a Windows UI is preferred for our delivered gateway deployment, we had been looking to utilize the Core and Azure stack for our large IoT urban project. Looking at the website, it appears support for new devices halted in 2018 and the product is no longer receiving attention. The reason we are coming back is that we’d like to build some kind of UI on the hub and that would fit nicely with we get an official response from Microsoft regarding future support for Windows 10 IoT Core and, if so, some reliable timelines for when updates will be released for production? Since the Win IoT has never really worked for us, we went with Raspian (with dotnet core solutions) for over a year. The Azure IoTHub & Edge solutions are not well aligned with the reality of residential solutions so we’re building our own stuff. In terms of the kind of hardware/software solution, the Pi is mainly a hub sitting at the edge between Azure and the real devices (based on ESP). If not, then what will “really” be supported?.If there’s a future for Win IoT, then is there one for the Raspberry Pi (3B+ and 4) on that platform?.Is there really a future for Win IoT or has this been abandoned? It sure feels like it is going downhill….Maybe there are multiple questions I should be asking: So, if we cannot trust these references, what can we build on and not be left dead in the water in a couple months? The table “Windows IoT Core Processor table” (updated 2018, about a year ago) goes even further saying “Up through currently enabled Broadcom Processors” … Again, this seams to be wrong. But clearly this is not the case anymore or maybe I’m missing something? The “SoCs and custom boards” page was last updated more than 2 years ago and still state support for Broadcom and Raspberry PI. The sites you’re pointing out are the reason I’m so confused at the moment. When we look at the Pi, it never really worked like expected with Win IoT and I can’t find a clear candidate to replace it. Yes, I’m looking for something that would be officially supported for more than a couple months.
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