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At a small press event in San Francisco, Microsoft today announced the launch of a secure end-to-end IoT product that focuses on microcontroller-based devices — the kind of devices that use tiny and relatively low-powered microcontrollers (MCUs) for basic control or connectivity features. Typically, these kinds of devices, which could be anything from a toy to a household gadget or an industrial application, don't often get updated and hence, security often suffers.
At the core of Azure Sphere is a new class of certified MCUs. As Microsoft president and chief legal officer Brad Smith stressed in today's announcement, Microsoft will license these new Azure Sphere chips for free, in hopes to jump-start the Azure Sphere ecosystem.
First one's free, kid!
Because it's hard to secure a device you can't update or get telemetry from, it's no surprise that these devices will feature built-in connectivity. And with that connectivity, these devices can also connect to the Azure Sphere Security Service in the cloud.
Now, you probably assume that these devices will run Windows, but you're wrong. For the first time ever, Microsoft is launching a custom Linux kernel and distribution: the Azure Sphere OS. It's an update to the kind of real-time operating systems that today's MCUs often use.
(Score: 3, Funny) by Gaaark on Tuesday April 17 2018, @12:15PM (5 children)
Wewease the secwet weapon!
Let's see the code!
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---
(Score: 3, Funny) by takyon on Tuesday April 17 2018, @12:19PM (2 children)
I think someone slipped BANNED bulk caffeine into your coffee mug.
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by Gaaark on Tuesday April 17 2018, @01:51PM (1 child)
From Fieval goes west, I think
We should hold a wowwee
What's a wowwee?
A warge gawthewing of mice fow a puwpose!
Oh! A rally!
That's what I said! A wowwee!
****Ah, the joys of parenting, lol. Stupid things you remember... important things get forgotten.
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---
(Score: 1) by infodragon on Tuesday April 17 2018, @05:07PM
That was the first "Fieval" movie, An American Tale. The wowwee was to protest the cats and something to do with Warranty Rat SPOILER **** He's not a rat he's a cat ****
That's all I have to say about that.
I'm with you on joys of parenting. At least I haven't called my children by the pets name. I remember a couple of times my father, very angry, calling me by the dogs name. We all burst out in laughter and the anger was gone and I escaped punishment for my misbehavior...
Don't settle for shampoo, demand real poo!
(Score: 3, Touché) by MostCynical on Tuesday April 17 2018, @12:38PM
Now I'm picturing all the devices having "Acme" on the boxes..
"I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Tuesday April 17 2018, @03:41PM
That would break their "security" faster than they could send out a patch.
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