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Originally Posted by KenWittlief
I dont see any mention of kits in the news release. They are only taking about an operating system, not hardware.
Personally I cant imagine any real time system with mechanical components running on Microsoft based SW. How does the old joke go? If Microsoft built cars then.... ?
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When it was introduced in 1991, I wonder how many people thought that Visual Basic would become the defacto standard office automation language and that by now
supposedly over 50% of all programmers would use it?
According to
an article I saw:
...others, not just Microsoft, will be able to offer software development tools for use with the underlying Microsoft Robotics Studio system. And while the system will run on Windows, it can be used to create programs for all types of robots, not just those using the Microsoft operating system, Trower said.
Maybe even ones using Microchip controllers...