The organization declared its new all holistic Azure Sphere stage for end-to-end Internet of Things (IoT) security, which contains three dimensions: new custom microcontroller chips, the Azure Sphere Security Service for associating and security IoT gadgets, and Azure Sphere OS, which keeps running on a custom Linux bit.

Microsoft President Brad Smith said the organization is handling IoT security at three unique dimensions: silicon, operating system, and cloud. Smith separated how every part of Azure Sphere functions, worked by the organization's Seven Properties of Highly Secure Devices:

Azure Sphere certified microcontrollers (MCUs): Developed by Microsoft Research, the custom MCUs will be licensed royalty-free to silicon manufacturers.The chips incorporate inherent systems administration and security subsystems for more profound chip-based IoT security. The primary Azure Sphere chip, the MediaTek MT3620, will be available this year. Smith said there will be more accomplices to come.

Azure Sphere OS: Smith said Microsoft understood that Linux was more qualified than Windows for IoT gadgets. Azure Sphere OS is worked with a custom Linux portion and security screen for "barrier top to bottom" with different layers of security, as per Smith. The organization had recently declared SQL Server bolster for Linux, however a non-Windows OS is a first.

Azure Sphere Security Service: The new Microsoft Azure-based cloud administration will perform endorsement based validation for both gadget to-gadget and gadget to-cloud correspondences, push programming refreshes specifically down to IoT gadgets, and perform danger location filters over the whole gadget biological community.

Smith said Microsoft is making the Azure Sphere Security Service perfect with Azure, as well as with other cloud framework suppliers, for example, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud, IBM, Oracle, and others. The organization is doing this for a similar reason it's discharging a Linux-based OS: ensuring billions of IoT gadgets are secure.

"There will be 9 billion of these MCU-based gadgets transported for the current year," he said. "They'll be in the toys of our kids, in our kitchens, our fridges, in each room in our house...that framework may be as secure as the weakest connection.

In commonplace Microsoft mold, the organization spared Azure Sphere for last. Prior to that, the organization likewise declared a huge number of new robotized cloud security devices for endeavors. Diana Kelly, CTO of Microsoft's Enterprise Cybersecurity Group, declared another approach to gamify cybersecurity utilizing the Microsoft Secure Score and Attack Simulator.

Kelly clarified the score as an expansion of Microsoft's Office 365 Secure Score that gives organizations a chance to quantify their scores namelessly against rivals in a similar industry. Microsoft likewise gives significant suggestions organizations can take to build their score. There's additionally the Attack Simulator, which enables IT to reproduce phishing or ransomware assaults. The organization would then be able to teach clients who navigated to raise their security mindfulness, and tune their security approaches dependent on the outcomes.

Microsoft reported upgrades to Windows Defender's Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) too, which develops the venture danger assurance capacities in the Fall Creators Update to let Microsoft run computerized examination and remediation on assaults and ruptures. There's additionally progressively incorporated danger recognition crosswise over Office 365, Microsoft 365, and personality assurance in Azure.

Kelly also ran detailed new conditional access capabilities that perform ongoing risk assessments if a user is logging in attempting to get sensitive data. Windows Defender ATP recognizes what devices they're using, where they're logging in from, and device-level assessmetns of their risk scores to prevent compromised machines from accessing corporate data. Finally, Microsoft is making its Intelligent Security Graph API available to partners.

I was going to reply but Peter Cushing aready said it much better than I ever could.

lol, so MS-DOS, Xenix and OS/2 never happened?

Another Linux distro? Sigh. Diversity, in the number of distros is good, but the unintended consequence is that there is a lot of reinventing the wheel. It would nice if Microsoft were to throw its support behind an existing distro. But then, can we really trust Microsoft?

Can a leopard changes its spots?

it will probably be sort of like Google's Android in philosophy, they take linux, cripple it and add enough proprietary code and obscure tweaks in strategic places and then nobody can fork it or do anything with it other than use it the way microsoft wants them to use it, so it will be useless except for paying customers, its not like they are going to release their own distro

Given Microsoft's track record for high quality OS's, I would say the product will be garbage`, like everything else they have put out and flooded the market with over the last 30 years. If they are the only ones using it for their datacenters, who cares. I would never store any of my data in an Azure data center: we use them at work (Office 365, storage and auth services)and it goes down all the time.

I trust them to have a plan to make more money however they can. At the end of the day that's the end goal for them, pure and simple. Or should I say their motives would be anything but - Embrace, Extend, Extinguish...

Hello all ... I am currently I a running XP Pro on an AMD Athlon 64 3000 with 2 Gigs of RAM and 750 Gigs on 3 hard drives. Could anyone please point me to a link that will tell me how to install Linux as a second operating system?

Thanks

Hi and welcome.

First read this thread, then have a look at the Distrowatch site. After you've chosen a distro to START with (after a shorter time than you think you'll be playing with others), just do a web search for dual booting windows xp and your chosen distro - XP is mature enough that there's a how-to for almost every flavour of Linux.

Have fun.

Has a corporation even half their size ever really changed their tune by more than 20 degrees? They claim something more like 180.

"The largest Linux-based honeypot ever built."

Seems like a major theme in the ecosystem for the past few years, though I'm not disputing that Android got there first.

Actually it was Apple... albeit not with Linux, but with a proprietary OS based heavily on free software (BSD, Mach kernel, etc):

https://developer.apple.com/library/...echnology.html

The leopard has not changed its spots. Right now it is trying on sheep's clothing to mingle with the Linux congregation.

Let's not fall victim to fearmongering here. They absolutely did try to destroy Linux, back when smart phones, smart homes and DVR weren't a thing. Now it's impossible for them to. There's no way they can shut down a development model that exists completely independent of businesses, nations, and people.

Ha! It took me 30 years to break free (or rather being kicked out) of the Microsoft world...

They can make whatever they want, choose and desire, but unless you see a pig fly or the weatherman reports hell has frozen over, I won't touch any of it...

Hello Linux World!