>> In this new episode of The Internet of Things show,
we have Adi from
the Windows 10 IoT team that is coming to tell us a bit
about what Windows 10 IoT is about and also
what's coming in 2019 for you guys.
In order to learn more about
the product also try it out and so forth.
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>> Hi everyone, this is the Internet of Things show,
I'm Olivier your host.
Today, we have Adi on the show.
He's here to talk to us about Windows 10 IoT and
what's coming in is product for 2019.
Adi, thanks a lot for joining the show.
>> My pleasure.
>> So, before we jump into the topic,
can you tell us a bit about yourself.
>> Yes. So, hi Olivier.
So, I'm Adi Hariharan,
I lead the Windows IoT marketing team.
So, my focus is to make sure that we tell
great stories about Windows IoT and
talk about all the great innovation that's coming in the product.
>> So, before talking about the innovations,
it will be interesting to see why you guys are doing that.
Why is Microsoft building an OS for devices?
So, what are the trends you're seeing the industry going towards?
What are the customer saying?
What do they need from
your perspective of Windows building an OS for these devices?
>> Yes. We are hearing a lot of things from our customers Olivier.
So, one of the things that we're hearing a lot
from our customers is basically they have
great devices that's helping them improve the way they do things,
bringing in efficiency, bringing in cost efficiencies.
>> Yes.
>> The other thing that they also seeing is
that with the investments that they have,
they're also gathering a lot of data from the environment.
>> Yes.
>> But they're not doing a lot with that data.
So, they want to be able to tap
into that rich resource that they have.
So, they want to be able to analyze that data
and then also make that data a little more actionable.
>> Yes.
>> So, but trying to do that is not easy.
I mean, IoT projects are really
complex and it takes a lot of investments.
Once you have a project and you fully try and test it out,
try to scale it across
the entire world is going to be quite challenging.
That's where the investments that we put in
both Azure and Windows comes into play.
>> So, you're saying that these IoT projects are complex and
actually I'm seeing lots of customers
were not coming from the device development world.
Right? They're coming from the enterprise mobile cloud development
but they want to have to do IoT for driving
their digital transformation you were alluded
to and basically they
didn't have these knowledge about creating
a device and developing for device.
So, is Windows 10 IoT actually
making their life easier in that sense?
>> Yes. So, a lot of our customers come to
us and ask us, "How do I get started?".
>> Yes.
>> Right. So, we really want to help them.
One of the things Olivier that
we want our customers to be fully aware of is
that we've been in the embedded and
the IoT business for the last two decades.
So, what that means is that we've been helping our customers,
help with their improvements
and automation for the things that they do.
So, with that, we bring in a lot of
expertise and we make the platform really robust.
>> Okay.
>> Think about the peripheral support.
Think about the driver support that we have
developed over a period of time that
comes fully integrated into the product.
So, to get started on an IoT project,
you're going to start with a product
that's done much of the heavy lifting and
what they really need to focus on is
the customization that goes on top of the product.
>> Yes.
>> If you will.
>> That their value add basically, right?
>> It's their value add.
>> What about security? Because security is a big concern.
We hear about it all the time in IoT.
What does Windows 10 IoT bring
in terms of security to these solutions?
>> Yes. So, Windows IoT at the base level
brings in all the security goodness that Windows carries.
Now, Windows is available in about two billion devices.
What that means is that we've been learning a lot about
security and a lot about the threats that are out there,
and we have managed
to tick that goodness that we've learned through
the Windows installation or the Windows install
base and brought that down to Windows IoT.
So, Windows IoT inherently adopts a lot
of the security baselines that we
bring through Windows. So, that's number one.
Then we focus on specific security aspects
like Device Health Attestation that we
bring into Windows to make sure that
the device as well as the connection
to the Cloud is extremely secure.
>> Nice. Last but not least or
actually might not be last but our last thing
but maintaining devices in
the field is something that can be a nightmare.
You need to maintain version of the hardware of the OS and so on.
You need to actually build your own
infrastructures is not existing.
Windows has been out as
an enterprise and consumer products for some time,
must have knows how to do management of an OS, right?
So, is it the same for Windows 10 IoT?
>> It is slightly different. If you think about how
a customer would have to manage a device
today in an embedded scenario,
if they want to provide a device update,
they would send a technician to the field with
a USB stick and then drawn the updates physically on the device.
We have a better way of doing that.
>> Yes. That would not be manageable and the IoT scale was like.
>> Especially when you think about scale,
it is going to be challenging.
So, what we have upcoming very soon is
actually also available is the Windows IoT Core Services.
So, think of this as an infrastructure service that we provide to
our customers where they will be able to throttle
and fully control the updates that A,
the operating system needs,
any driver updates that they need for
the peripherals or any updates that they
need for apps running on the device.
This can be delivered over the air so that they
don't need to physically send somebody over to the device.
They can seamlessly update it
from wherever they are any part of the world.
>> Awesome. So, you guys tailor a nice OS for devices,
you add these embedded specific features to lock the system down,
you offer tools to maintain all of that.
But you guys are hard at work.
There's tons of things coming in 2019.
>> Yes.
>> Can you give us a sneak peek and
how can people learn more about what's coming?
>> Yes. So, we have two flavors of Windows IoT.
So, we have Windows IoT Enterprise.
Think of Windows IoT Enterprise as
a full-fledged operating system for a full power device.
>> Okay.
>> We also have Windows IoT Core.
Windows IoT Core is for a small footprint device.
Now, the exciting thing that's coming up is
that we are going to and we've
also already announced support for NXP chip,
and we're going to announce GA for i.MX six, seven and eight.
>> Okay.
>> That is really exciting.
>> More and more hardware.
>> A lot of silicon option sense.
So, IoT Core would run on
an ARM-based chip with NXP support, Qualcomm support.
So, now you can think about really
bring down the footprint of the operating system.
So, that's number one.
We also announced support for
the robot operating system on
Windows which are which is really exciting.
>> Yes.
>> The third thing that's really exciting
for us is the work that we're doing on
Windows ML and making sure that we can
integrate Azure IoT Edge into Windows.
So, that's inherently out-of-the-box where
you don't have to put an additional development
to bring Azure IoT Edge onto Windows.
>> Bring in intelligence of the Cloud then at the edge,
like for addressing scenarios we have
needs for having low latencies or
disconnected scenarios or you
have privacy concerns about it as well, right?
So these are kind of scenarios you can implement easily.
>> That is right.
>> Okay. So, we have
coming like tons of events. You guys will be asked.
>> Yes.
>> There's also a series of webinars?
>> Yes.
>> So, can you tell us a little bit
like two seconds about the webinars.
>> We're really excited about all the innovation
that's coming in Windows and I'm
going to be really excited to come back to
this audience and talk about all the innovation that's coming.
>> Welcome to the show.
>> So, we will have a bunch of webinars series.
So, it will be myself along with a lot of
our developers and engineers
will come talk about the innovation that's coming.
>> Okay.
>> You'll also find us at a lot of events.
We are excited about embedded world
where we're going to make big announcements about
Windows IoT and we'll follow it up
with the IoT inaction series across the world.
>> Yes.
>> We're hoping that you will be able to come attend and also
learn about Windows IoT and hopefully
also be able to adopt and try it out.
>> Well, actually adopt and try it out today.
We have resources where we have pointers and people to
learn more about Windows 10 IoT,
the Azure services they can run on Windows 10 IoT devices.
They can get started with the Raspberry Pi.
Everyone has a Raspberry Pi on the desk, didn't they?
Or something like that.
>> I do.
>> We do, we gigs I guess.
What actually by the way someone from
marketing has a Raspberry Pi on their desk.
>> Say something about how we work in Microsoft.
>> Exactly right, just want to mention that.
So, these links will be added to the description of this show.
Adi, thanks a lot for that introduction Windows 10 IoT.
You actually definitely got us excited about what's coming.
You guys can meet Adi and
a team during the events on the webinars.
Subscribe to the IoT Show to learn more about
what's coming next and hope to see you soon. Bye.
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