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Operative system
HomeOS was the
working title of a
home automation
operating system being developed at
Microsoft Research in the early 2010s.
[1]
[2] Microsoft Research announced the project in 2010 and abandoned it in 2012.
[3]
HomeOS communicated with Lab of Things, a
cloud-based
Internet of Things infrastructure also developed by
Microsoft .
[4]
[5]
[6]
Microsoft's slogan for their HomeOS project was "Enabling smarter homes for everyone."
[7]
Microsoft's HomeOS
development team has written three sample
applications that make use of multiple
devices , including a "sticky media" app that plays music in parts of the house that are lit up, but not other rooms; a
two-factor authentication app that uses audio from
smartphones and images from a
front-door camera to turn on lights when a user is identified; and a home
browser for viewing and controlling a user's access to all devices in a home.
[8]
Some staff who worked on the project cited
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer 's focus on
enterprise applications ,
productivity software , and
cloud computing as the reason for the stalled
development .
[3]
See also
References
^ Dixon, Colin; Mahajan, Ratul; Agarwal, Sharad; Brush, A.J.;
Lee, Bongshin ; Saroiu, Stefan; Bahl, Victor (April 2012).
"An Operating System for the Home" . Microsoft Research – Publications .
Microsoft . Retrieved 26 April 2012 .
^ Foley, Mary Jo (10 September 2010).
"Microsoft experiments with 'HomeOS' and home app store ideas" . ZDNet . CBS Interactive. Retrieved 26 April 2012 .
^
a
b
"Microsoft had a plan to automate your home before Apple and Google — but never did it" . businessinsider.com . 4 December 2015.
^
"Lab of Things Wiki" .
CodePlex . Microsoft. Archived from
the original on 2 February 2015. Retrieved 14 January 2015 .
^ Higginbotham, Stacey (15 July 2013).
"Microsoft pushes HomeOS further with Lab of Things, but where's the mobile angle?" .
Gigaom . Retrieved 14 January 2015 .
^ Foley, Mary Jo (15 July 2013).
"Microsoft adds a Lab of Things to its HomeOS" . ZDNet . CBS Interactive. Retrieved 14 January 2015 .
^
"HomeOS homepage" .
Microsoft .
^
" "Microsoft's HomeStore: Home automation, with an iPhone-inspired twist" " . zd.net . 7 October 2010.
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