I've had similar experiences as the reviewer. Purely for learning, setup an RPI2 with windows IoT core, and experimenting with a brand new surface pro 4 + Visual Studio. Took me about 4-5 hrs to get Blinky working on a circuit board attached to the RPI (granted, my first time on Win10 + VS). I can definitely see the potential, it has a reasonable amount of "cool" factor. But it feels madly more complex and out of control than running Raspbian on my pi-zeros. It ties in with Azure quite nicely, and is about on a par with AWS IoT + Raspbian clients. But Azure are shooting themselves in the foot because the cost of more than one IoT device is prohibitive compared to AWS. I am enjoying playing, and MS does seem to have changed its stripes quite a bit since the last time (>5 yrs ago) I last used their kit but the sheer convenience of Pi's + AWS is hard to beat.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
