Posted on 03/16/2015 12:22:57 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Microsoft has already said that Windows 10 will work on a PC, tablet or phone. Now it wants to put Windows on every other gadget you might want to connect to the Internet.
On Monday, Microsoft unveiled Windows 10 IoT (short for the idiotically named "Internet of Things"). It's essentially a tool to let your connected thermostat to talk to your connected car, or for a bank's connected ATM to talk to its network hub.
And if all those things run Windows, they'll play nicely (in theory) with your Windows PC or phone. That means you should be able to turn on your living room lights with Windows, and a company should be able to manage its army of connected nanobots with Windows too.
That's a much better solution that what exists now: A sea of random apps, each of which controls a different gizmo. Your connected oven has its own app. Your connected TV has its own app. And your connected self-watering plant has its own app too.
Not only is that annoying, it's also a missed opportunity.
Imagine if your connected oven could talk to your connected smoke detector. Then your smoke alarm wouldn't go off when you burn your London broil. Microsoft is far from alone in its attempt to create a platform for connected gizmos. Apple (AAPL, Tech30), Google (GOOGL, Tech30), Amazon (AMZN, Tech30) and Intel (INTC, Tech30) also want to be the go-to hub for the billions of gadgets that will eventually be connected to the Internet.
The potentially unique proposition that Microsoft has to offer is that Windows 10 IoT won't only control the connected stuff in your house (like Apple and Google are going after), or the connections in businesses (like Amazon and Intel are fighting over).
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Please wait for your toast while we install this Critical Update...
What could possibly go wrong? How about having someone hack your refrigerator while you’re out of town and turn it off?
Why does “Colossus” come to mind.
Only a bumbling, not too bright, Colossus.
It’ll wind up there eventually anyway. You’d be surprised how often you make contact with XP right now, it runs all kinds of appliances.
Please wait for your toast while we install this Critical Update...
Thinking talkie toaster ala Red Dwarf.
The “Moochie Police” will show up at your door and tell you you have too much junk food in your fridge and they’re there to relieve you of it.
You'd also be surprised to find how often you make contact with linux ...
Abort.. Re-Fry.. Or Bail??
There is no requirement to run the same OS on all devices, let alone the fact that it is not physically possible. All you need to do is to establish a common language. You can run any OS on any device, or no OS, or Windows, or UNIX, or RT-11, or CP/M.
As an analogy, you do not need to be a genetic relative of someone to talk to him. The only requirement is that both are speaking the same language.
I have Win10 technical preview running this very moment. It is marginally better than Win8 but suffers from a hit by the same ugly stick. This series of desktop Windows is a dead end, as it is oriented only for PCs, and PCs themselves are a dead end. Win8/10 can also run on tablets, primarily as WinRT, but that offers no benefit to anyone whatsoever, except that porting of the stuff to other platforms cannot be done by anyone except MS.
We don’t need no steenking ATMs.
Just more stuff to fall under the FCC umbrella.
I’m keeping my home automation free. I’ve yet to become so lazy that I need an app to turn on my lights or burn toast.
I remember back in the day when linux was associated with counter-culture hippie types playing hackysack between gnu software writing sessions. Fast forward, and the corporate beheamoth Microsoft has leveraged its billions to further the leftward lurch of the country with their fingers in every pie.
In other words, it doesn't want functional robots.
(s) You are hereby charge with the crime of public independence of though.(/s)
please not sarcasm tag.
Reminds me of this scifi short story where parents take their children for IQ tests. If a child is found to be TOO smart they are euthanized. (I think testing was at 5yrs old). The government office did it for the good of the children.
Well...my x86-SoC prototype dev board is based on an 80386EX...NT 3.51 sounds like a better idea...
Hillary should borrow that. "It was an Exchange server, so obviously it never worked and there was never any email on it."
Meanwhile Windows 8.x has so thoroughly annoyed me that I have some linux boxes in my lab.
And many of my equipment vendors are providing linux (as well as Windows) versions of their SDK.
Be afraid, Microsoft.
Be very afraid.
(That said, Windows 10 looks good so far. I’ve been using the tech-preview in a non-critical application, and it’s not too different from Windows 7 in the respects that matter.
Is that Windows 10 IoT or Windows 1D IoT?
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