I love the Pi, and I work for MS, and I admit to knowing very little about this. But, with that caveat in mind, I am a bit baffled as to what the benefit is of using Windows over Linux here. With Linux, I am always certain, with enough work, I can make it do what I want because ultimately I can always go look at and possibly modify source code, plus there is a huge commuity of people who can answer questions, With Windows Core, that does not seem to be the case.
So curious to hear what you and others like abou this and what you think the benefits are.
I think the Raspberry Pi kit is more of a "because we can" / POC demo at the moment. It's interesting but not very useful to the Raspberry Pi community as it is. The primary objective of W10 IoT Core is to provide a path forward for existing embedded Windows systems, particularly hundreds of thousands of ATMs that are still running embedded XP.