And as the quote below shows, they’re all about open. They love the word. As long as open means “runs only on, for, and by Microsoft” they’re as open as they come.
Where as robotics applications usually use stable and home-built apps to make the buggers do their automated thing.
Somehow I don’t think it’ll fly. But hey, they are a monopoly. Maybe they’ll pull a classic Microsoft and simply kill off any competition to prove they’ve got a viable product.
In the absense of any other choice.
Microsoft gives monopoly robotic legs | The Register
“Will this make my robots blue screen,” asked one person. Another pressed about the dependency on Windows.
“Windows is the development platform, but there is a sense of openness,” Trower countered, noting that someone with a Mac could fire up a web browser an interact with a robot from there.
