Microsoft will invest $ 5 billion in IoT within the next 4 years

Microsoft announced that it will invest US $ 5 billion to develop products, services and programs Internet of Things (IoT) within the next four years.

This announcement comes a week after Microsoft reshuffled the organization so they will focus more on Windows "smart" cloud products and services. Unfortunately, Microsoft did not reveal how much money they have spent on developing IoT to date.

Corporate Vice President of Azure Julia White said through blog post that Microsoft plans to continue developing IoT operating system (based on Windows 10), a cloud service to manage these IoT tools and analytics to gain insight or information from the IoT device.

In recent years, Microsoft has taken advantage of IoT to drive their Azure business. Last year, in Build developer conference, Microsoft made "edge computing" as one of the main themes.

Edge computing allows data collected by IoT devices to be processed as close as possible to the device itself, without having to be sent to a data center or cloud. Edge computing enables companies to analyze almost real-time critical data.