While Bluetooth wireless technology has been around for many years, not all devices have been equal in terms of capabilities. Users of Microsoft’s mobile operating systems will perhaps be amongst the first to attest to that fact given the lack of support for notifications over Bluetooth to wearable devices.
In an attempt to improve this situation, Microsoft has released several new Bluetooth features in this month’s Windows 10 Insider Preview for PCs and phones, specifically:
GATT (Generic ATTribute) Server is perhaps the most interesting of the new features. As has been the case for a long time, Windows devices have only had the capability to act as a GATT Client which is able to retrieve information from a GATT Server, such as a fitness tracker or heart rate monitor.
