HomeOS

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HomeOS
DeveloperMicrosoft Research
Working stateUnknown (as of October 2013)
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Official websitewww.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/homeos-enabling-smarter-homes-for-everyone/

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]

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