When I first came across the ESPHome project a year or so ago. I thought it was interesting and something that I would use if I was building a smart device from scratch. I thought of all the things I could do, but I didn’t really like the idea of all the maintenance I could foresee.
Open Source
Microsoft officially launched Windows Embedded CE 6.0 today!, There are many improvements like: kernel enhancements, improved tools(Visual Studio 2005), and it is now 100% shared source.