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Microsoft To Deliver Azure Sphere, a Linux-based Chip and Cloud Security Service, in February 2020 (zdnet.com) 29

Posted by msmash from the moving-forward dept.
Microsoft officials said the company's Azure Sphere microcontroller (MCU) and associated cloud security service will be generally available in February 2020. From a report: Microsoft also introduced new branding today for the ThreadX RTOS technology it acquired when it bought Express Logic in April 2019. Going forward, this product will be known as Azure RTOS. ThreadX is one of the most-deployed real-time operating systems in the world. Today, Microsoft said that Renesesas, a major microcontroller manufacturer, announced that Azure RTOS will be be broadly available across its products, including the Synergy and RA MCU families. Microsoft has been working for at least a couple of years to secure low-cost Internet-connected devices. Microsoft Research's "Project Sopris" was all about creating a highly secure microcontroller. That project morphed into Azure Sphere, which Microsoft announced in April 2018. The first Azure Sphere chip was the MediaTek MT3620, which included an onboard security subsystem MIcrosoft christened "Pluton." The Azure Sphere OS included a Microsoft-developed custom Linux kernel, plus secured application containers.
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  • Really ??? !!! (Score:1)

    by Anonymous Coward
    ThreadX is one of the most-deployed real-time operating systems in the world. Today ????

    • It is like the "up to" of marketing. "Not the least used... including obscure ones" is all it means.

      I should tell the sales guy I will pay "up to" A TRILLION DOLLARS for his product. And them actually pay 1 cent, when he bites and the contract is signed.
      I should also have my own terms and conditions, in extreme legalese, somewhere along the lines of the HUMANCENTiPAD one. :)

      I want a world, where I get to treat them like they treat us, even if just for a day.

    • The marketing says so, and marketing never lies.

  • Firstly: Microsoft delivers security now? Like they're renowned for that... Seriously?

    Secondly: baking Microsoft "security" in a chip? I don't think so. Not on any of my PCBs that's for sure.

    Finally: it's probably not called Azure for nothing: I expect the damn chip to call home and report everything that passes through it to its cloudy namesake. Again, not for me, nosiree...

    • Re: (Score:3)

      by jonwil ( 467024 )

      The security in this new chip was originally developed for the Xbox One.
      This guy from the Xbox team
      https://www.platformsecuritysu... [platformse...summit.com]
      talks about the Xbox One security (and what makes it so good and so resistant to hacks) and then talks about how they are using the same technology for Azure Sphere.

      Say what you will about the security (or lack thereof) of Windows and some other MS products but the Xbox One still hasn't been hacked (at least I can't find any evidence that its been hacked in the way the original

    • It's actually good that a lot of small MCUs and SoCs are getting better security. A lot of them are pretty bland and don't have any hardened features, suitable mosty for a low security consumer market (wifi and preshared keys).

  • "The Azure Sphere OS included a Microsoft-developed custom Linux kernel,"

    Cool, where's the source code published?

  • Year of desktop Linux is more remote than ever (Score:3, Informative)

    by aRTeeNLCH ( 6256058 ) on Monday October 28, 2019 @02:34PM (#59355564)
    Now that Microsoft put their claws into it, I'm quite convinced that 2020 will be the year that Linux starts to suck for everyone, not just the systemd haters. Well, it was fun while it lasted.

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by Pyramid ( 57001 )

      Sadly, this is a legit concern.

      "Embrace, extend, extinguish"

      • If you're a time traveler from 2001, maybe arguably. For those of us who live in the present it's a historical footnote regurgitated by the same irrelevant tech dinosaurs who rant about "Micr0$haft" (or variations thereof) in every article mentioning Microsoft.

        • Zealots are never happy. How do you even extinguish something you make available under open source licenses?

      • Re:Year of desktop Linux is more remote than ever (Score:4, Insightful)

        by ArchieBunker ( 132337 ) on Monday October 28, 2019 @04:29PM (#59356172)

        Linux is imploding by its own means, not Microsoft's. Rewrite half of /etc every 5 years? Sure why not. Not include "traceroute" or even "route" on new distros? Yeah great when I'm trying to troubleshoot routing and can't connect to any repositories. Have a problem and need to google it? Better restrict that search to only go back three years or your results will be worthless. Systemd claims to not be a monolith of everything after all its a collection of many smaller programs. Great, can I pick and choose among them or is it all or nothing? Things that have been fine for decades (literally) have now been re-written simply because they were old. Part of the "not invented here" syndrome.

        • I remember I hadn't been doing much with my Linux boxes for a while - they'd been running and doing their thing, most I had to do is an apt update / apt install....came back and built a new one, think it was on the latest Debian and found I couldn't figure out how to reboot the damn thing, haha. Never had to use systemctl to perform a reboot or halt a system in the past, but now I have to. Thanks systemd.

        • Re: (Score:2)

          by ccady ( 569355 )
          Anyone capable of understanding and using traceroute is capable of typing "apt-get install traceroute" or "yum install traceroute". If you want an O/S that does not change, here is a list for you: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org] If you don't like the way Linux is developed, don't whine on Slashdot, get involved. Systemd does not claim anything. It is code. Can you pick and choose? Of course. "systemctl disable ". Show me a single developer who said something was rewritten "simply because [it was] ol

    • Now that Microsoft put their claws into it, I'm quite convinced that 2020 will be the year that Linux starts to suck for everyone, not just the systemd haters. Well, it was fun while it lasted.

      *BSD, here I come.

    • Let'd be frank. The "desktop" always was a stupid metaphor, to sell it to the PHBs.

      And the point of Linux always was, to be OUR OS. An OS for computer users. As opposed to software-based appliance users.

      That is why every attempt to put it "on the desktop" of appease "the average user", raped and ruined our Linux a bit.

      Sure, built a shitty interface for the mentally-disabled-by-choice or -by-social-pressure kind of crowd ... but not at the cost of ruining it for us! Make your own damn thing! You can build on

      • *lot* was meant to be *not*.
        The other ones are hopefully understandable.

        Sorry. I should not write on a *fucking stupid* touch screen / phone interface! It should not even exist!

      • Apple managed to make a damn fine UNIX based OS. Although anymore Linux is so far removed from UNIX it's a completely different animal. I'd actually run a Hackintosh but have the suspicion that one day Apple will enable their security chip and lock out all non Apple hardware.

      • I want it. Because I like it, have it, and want to keep it. 2002 was the year of Linux on the desktop at my place. But it needs market share, or there aren't going to be any drivers.
  • “The Azure Sphere OS included a Microsoft-developed custom Linux kernel, plus secured application containers.”

    Will this Microsoft-developed custom Linux kernel come with the full Source Code?

  • Element14 gave away a huge number of these Azure Sphere dev kits, like 20,000 of them, to kickstart development on them. Mine is studiously measuring the CO2 concentration, temperature, and humidity in my office.

  • Not sure I would fall for that, every other time it has been a trick or hoax. Microsoft and security in the same sentence. We are at the point when you spot a wolf it is really a wolf.

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