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Microsoft BUILD Conference Keynote Live Blog
by Brett Howse & Brandon Chester on April 29, 2015 11:30 AM EST- Posted in
- Microsoft
- BUILD
- Conferences
11:31AM PDT - we'll have more coming soon from BUILD
11:30AM PDT - sorry for the wifi issues
11:30AM PDT - and that's a wrap
11:30AM PDT - "empower every developer"
11:30AM PDT - "moving people from needing Windows, to choosing Windows, to loving Windows"
11:29AM PDT - Satya back on stage to wrap up
11:28AM PDT - Microsoft brought hundreds of Hololens to let attendees get a chance to check it out
11:26AM PDT - hololens can communicate objects in the room to help the robot navigate a room
11:25AM PDT - the robot that came out interacts directly with hololens
11:24AM PDT - now a demo of a maker kit with Raspberry Pi and Hololens
11:23AM PDT - ok I guess we don't get to learn much about the inside
11:22AM PDT - all-in-one device, no tether, no markers, no PC or phone required for operation
11:21AM PDT - now we get to learn more about the inside of hololens
11:18AM PDT - because it is augmented reality and not virtual reality it is easier to keep a connection with people during training
11:16AM PDT - now demoing hololens as a use case to help medical education
11:15AM PDT - video over. Architecture seems like a great fit for Hololens
11:13AM PDT - video now to show how Hololens has helped a construction firm
11:11AM PDT - "Follow Me" command unpins his video player from the wall and it comes with him
11:09AM PDT - showing the Holographic start menu and opening Skype, pinning Skype to the wall
11:08AM PDT - they have a custom camera to show us a demo of Hololens here
11:07AM PDT - unveiling the Windows Holographic Platform
11:05AM PDT - less than 100 days since Hololens was announced, and he will give some more info on how to put apps into Hololens
11:05AM PDT - Alex Kipman is now on stage
11:04AM PDT - for many people the phone is the primary computing interface so this is a nice way to expand that
11:03AM PDT - "any screen can be your PC"
11:03AM PDT - and at the same time, the phone display can still be used
11:02AM PDT - outlook mail client from the phone becomes the full version for the PC
11:01AM PDT - demoing Powerpoint, and once hooked to the display it will be the larger tablet version of the app
11:00AM PDT - phone will work with HDMI monitors and bluetooth keyboard and mouse support
11:00AM PDT - interesting play, and only will be on new hardware
10:59AM PDT - oohh Continuum is coming to the phone
10:58AM PDT - Maps is the demo for Continuum and it adjusts dynamically based on screen size and orientation
10:57AM PDT - showing off the task switcher button on the task bar
10:56AM PDT - start screen has been simplified
10:56AM PDT - showing touch mode on an 8" tablet
10:56AM PDT - Continuum lets devices be flexible, like the Surface Pro 3 for instance
10:55AM PDT - moving on from Edge to Continuum
10:54AM PDT - almost the same code as what Chrome uses because of HTML standards
10:53AM PDT - Edge will have extensions support, Joe is going to demo on Reddit
10:53AM PDT - New Tab page looks great
10:50AM PDT - Edge has been what the backend of Spartan has been using for months
10:50AM PDT - Microsoft Edge is the new browser name
10:49AM PDT - Project Spartan... finally going to hear the name
10:48AM PDT - in this case, send a message but without opening the app at all
10:48AM PDT - showing how Cortana can execute commands too
10:47AM PDT - showing Hey Cortana to launch apps like Viber in this case
10:46AM PDT - Cortana can help promote apps too if you use it to launch existing apps, and it will promote ones that may interest you
10:45AM PDT - Cortana shown with some new UI features
10:44AM PDT - this is optional, but helps with app discovery
10:42AM PDT - Apps like Cortana can be put on the lock screen to let people know about them and help discovery
10:42AM PDT - lock screen uses Windows Insights and you can train it to the images you like
10:41AM PDT - Start Menu just keeps evolving with lots of tweaks
10:40AM PDT - lots of Windows 7 coming back into Windows 10 like Glass and Jump Lists
10:37AM PDT - Joe Belfiore is now on stage
10:37AM PDT - BUILD giveaway is the HP Spectre. Nice machine
10:36AM PDT - so not coming soon but already here
10:36AM PDT - wow this is actually already been used for Candy Crush which has been in the store for a while now
10:34AM PDT - import Objective C right into Visual Studio with full text highlighting
10:33AM PDT - you can compile code from iOS and have it run on Windows
10:32AM PDT - Objective C support is the last tech
10:32AM PDT - wow
10:32AM PDT - demo was not 100% smooth but the end result was impressive
10:31AM PDT - app reuses existing code but can runs in a security container
10:29AM PDT - demo is Choice Hotel app
10:29AM PDT - Windows will have an Android subsystem
10:28AM PDT - Third tech: Android Java/C++ integration
10:28AM PDT - Adobe will be bringing Photoshop elements and Premier Elements to the Windows Store later this year
10:27AM PDT - Windows Store now leverages App-V to sandbox apps
10:26AM PDT - showing Adobe Photoshop Elements in the Windows Store
10:26AM PDT - Brett: This is super important to move existing apps into the store
10:25AM PDT - the next tech for moving to the Windows Store is .NET and Win32 application support
10:24AM PDT - they can then use the in-app purchases of the Windows Store but in their web app
10:24AM PDT - server hosted code can tell if the app is running in a web frame or in an app
10:23AM PDT - demo will use 22tracks website
10:23AM PDT - you can reuse current server hosted tools and have the website send notifications and live tiles
10:22AM PDT - Web is the first
10:22AM PDT - announcing four new ways to bring existing code to the Windows Store
10:22AM PDT - Windows Store: Universal Windows Platform
10:19AM PDT - shown on Xbox too
10:18AM PDT - state is shared in the cloud so that opening the app in multiple locations can bring you to the exact same place in the app
10:17AM PDT - new universal app works on both with a single codebase
10:17AM PDT - showing USA Today and how they currently have a codebase for phone and a codebase for Windows
10:16AM PDT - they want Windows 10 on 1 billion devices in the next 2-3 years
10:15AM PDT - they know they need Windows 10 broadly adopted and quickly
10:14AM PDT - same experience for end users, and allows business payment methods
10:14AM PDT - introducing the Windows store for business today
10:13AM PDT - 90 mobile operators
10:13AM PDT - Carrier billing for all Windows devices announced today
10:12AM PDT - easy and fast to install and uninstall
10:12AM PDT - apps that come from the windows store come with promises to the end user
10:12AM PDT - 40% of searches in the store are the same right now across Windows and Phone
10:11AM PDT - a single binary that can run on all of these devices
10:11AM PDT - targeting the broadest device range ever
10:10AM PDT - our goal is to make Windows 10 the most attractive developer platform ever
10:10AM PDT - Terry Myerson just came on stage
10:08AM PDT - Video time
10:07AM PDT - this is what they need to really nail with Windows 10
10:07AM PDT - one unified store
10:07AM PDT - Unified platform from Raspberry Pi to Hololens
10:07AM PDT - wifi just died again whoops
10:06AM PDT - Windows built for an era of more personal computing
10:05AM PDT - "It's now time to talk about Windows"
10:05AM PDT - They really want Office to be a true platform
10:04AM PDT - Also launching a Web SDK for Skype
10:03AM PDT - Delve can leverage this and show data from many sources
10:02AM PDT - demoing Office being used for graphing and getting insights from your users and data
09:59AM PDT - Uber knows where you are from the app and where you need to be from your Outlook calendar
09:58AM PDT - MS is partnering with Uber for ride reminders in Outlook calendar
09:58AM PDT - lets you see who you are talking to when dealing with email
09:57AM PDT - Outlook shown with LinkedIn and Salesforce integration
09:56AM PDT - Powerpoint being demoed with PicHit.me service
09:55AM PDT - and the add-on works on all platforms including iPad, Office Online and traditional Office
09:55AM PDT - Excel with SAP integration
09:55AM PDT - Office 16 on Windows shown with DocuSign integrated with HTML5 and Javascript
09:54AM PDT - Rob Lefferts from the Office team is on stage to demo
09:54AM PDT - combine users, data, and intelligence together
09:53AM PDT - Transforming Office into a platform
09:53AM PDT - Azure is done now, moving on to Office
09:50AM PDT - HDInsight is the backbone of their service
09:50AM PDT - Azure allowed us to focus on our goal
09:50AM PDT - they want to have a personal app that knows what you want to give based on what you care about
09:48AM PDT - JustGiving wants to use analytics to solve world issues
09:47AM PDT - Mike Bugembe from JustGiving is now on stage to discuss how they use Azure analytics
09:45AM PDT - Data Lake uses the Hadoop HDFS API
09:45AM PDT - enterprise security
09:45AM PDT - run analytic jobs against the data
09:44AM PDT - store and manage infinite data in the original form
09:44AM PDT - New Azure Data Lake service
09:43AM PDT - moving on to IoT now with Azure
09:42AM PDT - comparing Azure Data warehousing to AWS Redshift
09:40AM PDT - Data Warehousing service lets you do machine learning from many sources
09:37AM PDT - another video showing Azure doing analytics
09:36AM PDT - Two new Azure analytic services SQL Data Warehouse
09:35AM PDT - now discussing Analytics
09:34AM PDT - demo over. Pretty impressive and really simplifies DB work
09:33AM PDT - Elastic jobs let you submit one T-SQL query to all of the databases for maintenance or updates
09:32AM PDT - Elastic Database Query will be previewed in a few weeks to allow simple queries to all of the databases in the pool
09:31AM PDT - Azure will dynamically change the resources to save money on overprovisioning
09:30AM PDT - you can specify the minimum and maximum performance for each database
09:30AM PDT - Microsoft has machine learning to recommend which databases are put into the pool
09:29AM PDT - Lara Rubbbelke is on stage to demo
09:29AM PDT - Elastic Database Pool enables isolated databases but aggregates the capacity to smooth peaks
09:28AM PDT - new SQL capabilities: Transparent Data Encryption, Full text search, and Elastic Database pool
09:26AM PDT - Esri talking about ArcGIS SaaS
09:26AM PDT - now a video
09:26AM PDT - up to 160,000 SQL instances are created and dropped per day for testing and development
09:25AM PDT - SQL can be provisioned in seconds and distribute it around the world with automatic failover and geo distribution
09:25AM PDT - Azure data services now. SQL DB is one of their most popular services on Azure
09:24AM PDT - Windows and Linux versions will be available this week
09:23AM PDT - Azure Service Fabric is a High-control distributed computing framework
09:23AM PDT - new Azure techs now
09:22AM PDT - Azure powers all of their apps and does the heavy lifting for forecasts
09:22AM PDT - AccuWeather used to be AWS and has switched to Azure
09:22AM PDT - 90% of tech companies are building SaaS apps
09:21AM PDT - Really pushing how their tools are the ones they want people to use on all platforms
09:20AM PDT - Visual Studio Code is going to be Free and available later today!
09:19AM PDT - This is not the full Visual Studio but still this is a big step for the company
09:18AM PDT - and also on Ubuntu...
09:17AM PDT - now showing Visual Studio Code is now on the Mac
09:15AM PDT - now demoing the Logic app part
09:12AM PDT - Visual Studio online lets you see insights into the app and how it is performing and to let you auto-scale based on parameters
09:11AM PDT - demoing the Android emulator built into Visual Studio which runs Android on Hyper-V
09:10AM PDT - Showing how the Visual Studio tools let him manage the website, Windows app, phone app
09:09AM PDT - he uploaded a 3D model and it was submitted to an order backend on Azure
09:09AM PDT - sample is a 3D printer service
09:07AM PDT - Scott Hanselman is now coming on stage to demo Azure App Services
09:07AM PDT - App Service lets you do an Enterprise VPN
09:07AM PDT - apps can scale up the number of instances to respond to load, and remove instances when load goes down
09:06AM PDT - Azure App Service now is being discussed
09:05AM PDT - Azure being discussed in how it can really help developers
09:04AM PDT - now he's demoing how to see the debugging .net on Linus with Visual Studio
09:04AM PDT - my apologies
09:03AM PDT - Wi-Fi is going down again
09:02AM PDT - love Mark's Docker shirt
09:01AM PDT - and he can publish directly to it from Visual Studio
09:01AM PDT - now that they have .net on Linux he is going to show how his Docker app can also run on that OS
09:01AM PDT - and his app is now running in Docker
09:00AM PDT - packed his asp.net into Docker and now is going to run it
08:59AM PDT - has a minecraft server running in Docker
08:58AM PDT - he is discussing asp.net running docker
08:58AM PDT - Mark Russinovich is now on stage
08:58AM PDT - mix and match Windows and Linux dockers for multi part apps
08:57AM PDT - Microsoft has really embraced Docker on not just Linux but Windows as well
08:57AM PDT - Met Microsoft to let Docker run on Linux Azure services
08:56AM PDT - take any app and its dependencies and let it run on any server
08:55AM PDT - Docker is discussing how they can assist developers
08:55AM PDT - seems like such a big tech already
08:55AM PDT - Docker is only two years old wow
08:55AM PDT - Ben Golub who is the CEO of Docker is now on stage
08:54AM PDT - core .NET tech is now open source
08:54AM PDT - Open Source is more broadly used and Docker is now a big part of Azure
08:53AM PDT - Azure lets you re-use the skills you already have
08:52AM PDT - 1.4 million SQL databases in Azure
08:52AM PDT - more than 90,000 new Azure customer subs per month
08:52AM PDT - they have delivered more than 500 new Azure services in the last 12 months
08:51AM PDT - they offer on prem, hybrid, or cloud only models which I think is unique to the landscape
08:51AM PDT - Azure lets you target the Full Spectrum of cloud
08:51AM PDT - he is the EVP of Cloud and Enterprise (Azure)
08:49AM PDT - now Scott Guthrie is coming on stage to talk about cloud
08:49AM PDT - the experience matters
08:49AM PDT - and Windows 10 represents a new generation of Windows built in an era of more personal computing
08:48AM PDT - Graphing data is going to be another key
08:48AM PDT - They want every developer on every platform to be able to use their cloud services
08:48AM PDT - Build the intelligent cloud
08:47AM PDT - the first is the cloud infrastructure
08:47AM PDT - Microsoft wants to drive platform innovation with three platforms
08:47AM PDT - that's a great use for the pen which i think is going to get even more useful in Windows 10
08:46AM PDT - and now the music he created with the pen is being played
08:45AM PDT - all being done on Surface
08:45AM PDT - the app transforms the music bars
08:44AM PDT - handwriting recognition for music is being shown
08:43AM PDT - as a musician he's comparing developing to creating music
08:43AM PDT - David William Hearn
08:43AM PDT - Going to talk to a developer now
08:42AM PDT - He's discussing how he had talked to developers all over the world
08:40AM PDT - Talking about empowering developers
08:40AM PDT - Satya Nadella just came on stage
08:39AM PDT - Satya is talking about Microsoft's recent 40 year anniversary
08:39AM PDT - sorry for the delay the Wi-Fi is struggling
08:38AM PDT - Satya Nadella has taken the stage.