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Heading home from Seattle and reflecting on this week's Build conference, I'm struck by the major change in Microsoft's tone and direction.

In a future in which the entire world is a computer, we need a more responsible approach to technology. We need Microsoft.

On the eve of Google IO, and while Microsoft was talking up IoT at its own developer show, Google announced the release of Android Things 1.0.

Bill Gates once remarked that Windows was the most versatile software that the world had ever seen. Nope.

Contrary to various reports, Microsoft will indeed charge a licensing fee for Azure Sphere. Is this a problem?

Microsoft had good reasons to choose a Linux core for its Azure Sphere OS. Was better security one of the reasons?

Microsoft's Azure Sphere represents the confluence of several big themes we've discussed here on Thurrott.com in recent weeks.

Microsoft announced a new operating system for IoT called Azure Sphere OS. But here's the shocker: It's based on Linux, not on Windows.