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Microsoft and DJI team up to make drones smarter for businesses
Partnership focuses on commercial drones instead of consumer
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DJI says it's teaming up with Microsoft, which the drone maker says is a step towards "intelligent flying robots".
The companies will build a software development kit (SDK) that will let Windows 10 devices control its drones. But before you get excited by the idea of using a Surface tablet with your Mavic Pro, this is announcement is aimed squarely at the enterprise.
Most people know DJI for cornering the consumer drone market, but they also make drones for commercial uses like aerial imaging -- and it’s this growing segment the companies are targeting. (Think public safety, construction and agriculture industries.)
In a statement, DJI said the tie-up would make drone technology accessible to the nearly 700 million Windows 10 customers globally. Of course, that’s a stretch given only a small proportion of Windows 10 users are enterprise developers -- but it still does open up huge opportunities.
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And the two companies didn’t stop with the SDK alliance.
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