Microsoft set up "IoT" development team or continuous expansion

NetEase technology News February 12, according to foreign media reports, several people familiar with the situation, Microsoft has formed a "network of Things" (Internet of Things, abbreviation: IoT) Development team, the team by the original class embedded system development team members, currently under the Windows Department management. Microsoft moved the embedded Systems Development group from the Windows Server Department to the merged new Windows department last fall. The head of the department is the executive vice president of the company, Trie Meiersen (Terry Myerson). Until now, Microsoft's Windows Embedded development team is still focused on businesses, industrial users, not ordinary consumers. The areas covered by Windows Embedded systems include retailer equipment, medical equipment, industrial manufacturing equipment, and automotive embedded equipment. New Steve Techeirat is expected to soon usher in a new expansion – according to the information on the LinkedIn website, Steve Teixeira has been named Microsoft IoT team partner level project management Director since December 2013. Teixeira was previously director of Project management at the Microsoft Visual Studio platform development team, and was also involved in leading the Microsoft Developer Division's Technical Computing Team (technical Computing) and the Parallel Computing team (Parallel Computing). Jonathan Smith, another senior engineer at Microsoft, has since January 2014 been appointed as the product group Project manager for the IoT development team (Smith). Like Teixeira, Smith was previously a member of the Microsoft Developer Division's technical computing team. In addition, Smith served as the product group Project Manager for Windows Azure UB. From Windows 2000 to Windows 7, Smith is almost a project development manager. According to Teixeira's job description of the IoT team in LinkedIn, the team will work to "create a variety of non-PC, flat, hand-held, or terminal products that can serve industrial, wearable, automotive, and consumer electronics." Things ' (things) operating system and cloud services. To achieve the intelligent management of vertical products. Foreign media reporter asked whether the Microsoft-iot team for the original embedded system development team rename. Microsoft has not responded positively to the issue. (Lu Xin)