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https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2018/04/microsoft-linux-custom-kernel-azure-sphere

I joke you not!

‘Microsoft loves Linux so much it has made its own, custom Linux kernel’

Announcing the (somewhat unbelievable) news at an event in San Francisco, USA on April 16, Microsoft President Bad Smith said:

“After 43 years, this is the first day that we are announcing, and will be distributing, a custom Linux kernel.”

No, it’s not April 1. No, he’s not joking.

Microsoft is using Linux as part of a new product called Azure Sphere.

Azure Sphere is a new bit of technology from Microsoft designed to protect micro-processors used in small devices and the ‘internet of things’.
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backstreetboy said:
I wonder if it's because Linux is more secure?
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Maybe, but not a primary reason.
Microsoft has realised that they are unable to compete with Windows 10 kernel on the small ARM based Internet-things devices.

Interesting project, time will show a true reason. Cryptomining? :)
 
You can't try and dominate a market if you keep yourself to a small section of it. People have been having a free ride with linux for years, it's an untapped cash cow. The tactic is to slowly weasel you way in, then people go "wow, this is easy to use" and then they use it on everything.

Is any Windows OS the most secure? No. Are they all easy to use, set up and do your daily tasks (for the average user)? Yes - and that's why they took such a large market share.
 
They're a helluva big company. Surely they should explore options?
 
backstreetboy said:
I wonder if it's because Linux is more secure?
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It's a lot cheaper to change an existing OS that already works on very low power devices, than to create something from scratch. Windows was never designed for this purpose anyway. Also, the devices will drive Azure cloud consumption and services.
 
^^vampire^^ said:
Is any Windows OS the most secure? No. Are they all easy to use, set up and do your daily tasks (for the average user)? Yes - and that's why they took such a large market share.
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Windows 10 is not easy to use, as it requires lot of initial configuration changes to remove things Microsoft is trying to force on you. On every major update Microsoft will reset to defaults, repeat the same over and over again...

As for gaining market share, it was done by anti-competetive moves like OEM licencing. You get Windows whether you wanted it or not. That is a reason.
 
sajunky said:
Windows 10 is not easy to use, as it requires lot of initial configuration changes to remove things Microsoft is trying to force on you. On every major update Microsoft will reset to defaults, repeat the same over and over again...

As for gaining market share, it was done by anti-competetive moves like OEM licencing. You get Windows whether you wanted it or not. That is a reason.
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Yeah but as someone who has just bought a brand new laptop - you can turn it on, open up Word or Excel and with 1 click and typing some keys be connected to the internet. As I stated before - for your average user. Your average user wouldn't know about these settings and for the most part wouldn't care.

As for OEM licencing, I can't say whether that is anti-competitive or not but if I was a company like MS and I spotted an opportunity like that I would take it too. There's always going to be competitors that are late to the party on certain business opportunities that then cry foul.
 
sajunky said:
Windows 10 is not easy to use, as it requires lot of initial configuration changes to remove things Microsoft is trying to force on you. On every major update Microsoft will reset to defaults, repeat the same over and over again...

As for gaining market share, it was done by anti-competetive moves like OEM licencing. You get Windows whether you wanted it or not. That is a reason.
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It doesn’t require much configuration changing unless you are a paranoid tinfoil hat lover....

So now oem licensing is anti-competitive... holy hell that there is a bomb shell. You better get the police involved because every industry does it
 
Lupus said:
And Windows CE and and.
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backstreetboy said:
What about Windows Embedded?
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Erm CE is Embedded..... Windows Embedded Compact

ToxicBunny said:
It doesn’t require much configuration changing unless you are a paranoid tinfoil hat lover....

So now oem licensing is anti-competitive... holy hell that there is a bomb shell. You better get the police involved because every industry does it
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Its amazing that he is not complaining about Phones being pre-loaded with Android or Cisco devices that preloaded with NX-OS.

PS: The anti-competitive practice was ruled on ages ago and since been addressed, it was the fact that you could not buy a PC without an OS. That is now possible.
 
AlphaJohn said:
Erm CE is Embedded..... Windows Embedded Compact



Its amazing that he is not complaining about Phones being pre-loaded with Android or Cisco devices that preloaded with NX-OS.

PS: The anti-competitive practice was ruled on ages ago and since been addressed, it was the fact that you could not buy a PC without an OS. That is now possible.
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Don't bring your logic into this, Bloody AGENT!
 
Ja Microsoft... what else is new from you, you irrelevant company.
Going back to copying because your crap is... well... crap.

On the flipside this likely means that in future Steam games will run natively on Ubuntu then I can be M$ free forever.
 
ArtyLoop said:
Ja Microsoft... what else is new from you, you irrelevant company.
Going back to copying because your crap is... well... crap.

On the flipside this likely means that in future Steam games will run natively on Ubuntu then I can be M$ free forever.
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irrelevant company?

I think you may need to re-evaluate that opinion....
 
ToxicBunny said:
It doesn’t require much configuration changing unless you are a paranoid tinfoil hat lover....

So now oem licensing is anti-competitive... holy hell that there is a bomb shell. You better get the police involved because every industry does it
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False statements in both paragraphs.
 
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