Microsoft Bolsters Edge Devices in Windows 10 IoT Update — Redmond Channel Partner
The latest update to the Windows 10 IoT (“Internet of Things”) operating system, intended for small devices as well as large industrial machines, aims to make edge devices “more powerful,” according to Microsoft.
Released this week, the Windows 10 IoT Core edition April 2018 Update can be downloaded at this page. The Windows 10 IoT Enterprise edition April 2018 Update can be downloaded as a test version (or “evaluation” version) for 90 days here. The Enterprise edition also is supposed to be available from the My Visual Studio download page. However, just the Core editions were shown there at press time.
Microsoft offers Windows 10 IoT in two editions: the slimmed-down Core edition, which is missing a lot of features that are typically seen in the standard Windows 10 client, and the Enterprise edition, which is typically described as “a full version of Windows 10,” although the OS features can be omitted by developers depending on their use cases. Microsoft quietly dropped its Windows 10 Mobile IoT edition. Read more…