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I have a requirement that says my device must only support the "Just Works" association model which is easily support by the Android and iOS stacks but the Microsoft Windows requires the use of their "inbox experience", can the Broadcom stack support "Just Works" or does it follow the MS model of discovery and pairing via the Windows "inbox experience"?

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Broadcom provides only profile pack on Windows 7.  Pairing experience is from Microsoft.  I think you are a bit confused by terminology.  Just works is a method of pairing which is used by headless devices (no input/no output).  Obviously PC has both input and output.  Meanwhile Microsoft supports pairing with headless devices and just works pairing is used, and it works quite well.  What you are probably looking for is the way for an application or a peer device to initiate pairing.  This is indeed not supported by Microsoft OS.  This was a conscious decision to have all technologies to go through the same experience.  And there is no way out of it.  Well, at least until Windows.Next.

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