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Microsoft puts Windows 10, Cortana at the center of smart homes

Are you too lazy to open the door or switch on a light? Let Windows 10 and its Cortana voice-activated digital assistant do the job for you.Microsoft’s vision is to make home automation a breeze in Windows 10, and the company featured several related Internet of Things announcements at its ongoing Build conference.Windows 10 will work with a wider range of devices and appliances by integrating…

For how excited everyone at CES is about the Internet of Things, most examples of it have tended to be pretty boring. They’re dry suggestions of how you might start up music, play with your refrigerator, or hook up some weather sensor — all key parts of the smart home, but not something you’d necessarily get excited about. But Microsoft is doing things differently. In a bright spot in the middle…

Microsoft and Samsung collaborate for Internet of Things (IoT) demonstration at CES 2016

At CES in Las Vegas, Microsoft collaborated with Samsung to demonstrate scenarios enabled by the company’s vision for the Internet of Things (IoT) with Windows 10.The demonstration was conducted by Microsoft’s Bryan Roper who appeared alongside Terry Myerson and asked Cortana a series of natural language queries related to various Samsung IoT appliances including refrigerators, televisions, and…

Microsoft’s home automation software: HomeOS

Microsoft’s Research arm, which spends much of its time pursuing “moonshot” projects, created a home automation software product before both Apple and Google did, but never capitalised on the idea. The software, named HomeOS, was just that: an operating system for the home. The website is still available to view (but hasn’t been updated since 2012), complete with demo videos that show something…

Microsoft makes Raspberry Pi its preferred IoT dev board

A little over a year after Intel’s Galileo development board got its first taste of Microsoft Windows, Redmond has decided to pull the project.Chipzilla’s Raspberry Pi-like Galileo was anointed as able-to-run-Windows in August 2014, courtesy of the 1.0.2 firmware update for the Gen1 device. In the same month Intel launched the Gen2 board (which got its stripped-down Windows 8 version in October…

Microsoft unveils Smart City Initative; partners with Justdial, Paytm, Snapdeal

Addressing at the “Future Unleased” event, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella announced that the company’s latest flagship smartphones, the Windows 10 Mobile-based Lumia 950 and Lumia 950 XL, will be launched arrive in India by December. The deals include the use of a range of Microsoft technologies including “machine learning, Bing, Skype and Microsoft’s digital assistant, Cortana”. “This initiative is…

Microsoft’s enterprise-grade security is coming to Windows 10 IoT 

The version of Windows 10 for devices from the Internet of Things will soon get security features from the company’s operating system for computers and tablets.The company announced Thursday that it will bring its Bitlocker encryption and Secure Boot systems to the Windows 10 IoT Core public beta in a push to improve security. Source: Microsoft’s enterprise-grade security is coming to Windows 10…

Microsoft updates details on Windows 10 for IoT Core

There have been murmurs and rumors about Windows 10 for IoT. From its early announcements, many have questioned whether Microsoft could target small embedded devices that don’t have screens with Windows 10. During Build 2015, Microsoft made an impressive albeit brief argument that it could. However, since Microsoft’s developer conference in April, the news about the company’s development of…