Microsoft is widening its IoT footprint

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Microsoft is widening its IoT footprint

Microsoft announced a suite of new and enhanced IoT features for its Windows 10 IoT platform at Embedded World 2019.

Here are the highlights of its innovations:
  • An IoT platform for server-class devices
  • An expanded set of software libraries and tools to help users build robot applications
  • Azure IoT Edge software modules available within Windows 10 IoT
Microsoft's IoT innovations could help the tech giant as it wrestles with Amazon Web Services (AWS) for dominance in the massive IoT platforms market.

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