Day 2 Keynote is here! Watch and follow Microsoft’s Developer Conference Build 2017 live.
Day 1 was Amazing. Inelligent clouds and AI were everywhere in all conversations.
Today’s keynote event with Terry Myerson, Microsoft EVP Windows and devices group will start at 0830 PT. Time variation will mean 1530 GMT, 1630 WAT if you are in Lagos, 1830 EAT if you are in Nairobi and 1703 SAST if you are in Johannesburg.
Microsoft will use the event to address Windows developers through keynotes, announcements and technical sessions.
Day 2 Keynote Live stream.
The Spirit of Creativity lives in us all – Terry Myerson
Headlines from the day 2 event include following announcements:
Windows 10 next update is coming in the fall and is called the Windows 10 Fall creators Update.
Story Remix App – Story Remix will help you find inspiration and explore new ways to create great stories – coming in Windows 10 Fall Creators Update, and its a really cool app. You don’t have to be a pro to make really cool Stuff
So many new features coming in the next Windows 10 Update. The feel and look will also be another talking point. Day 3 is going to have more technical deep dive sessions into announcements. What from the announcements got your attention, care to share?
Check out the experiences from Day 1 of Microsoft’s Developer Conference. Check out announcements on new and evolving technologies coming from Microsoft.
Day 1 of Microsoft Build 2017 began with Satya Nadella, Microsoft CEO opening the event with the Keynote session. He shared on Microsoft’s vision for it’s technologies and how they see them impacting the world. Harry Shum, EVP Microsoft AI and Research spoke about how AI has the potential to disrupt every industry. Microsoft’s EVP Cloud & Enterprise, Scott Guthrie followed to share on the cloud and new Azure services.
Microsoft aims to empower every developer for a new era of intelligent
cloud and intelligent edge.
“Digital technology and its impact on every corner of our lives is profound today. Every part of our economies and our society, whether it’s precision agriculture or precision medicine, is being shaped by the advances in digital technology.
The opportunity for developers to have broad, deep impact on all parts of society has never been greater — and with all this opportunity comes enormous responsibility.- Satya Nadella ”
Here below is the keynote session and read more on the intelligent cloud and edge shared by Satya.
Watching Microsoft Senior Product Marketing, Laura Jones demo Cortana in a car(not a real car) on stage and how it was integrated in other services was a sight.
Microsoft’s EVP Cloud & Enterprise, Scott Guthrie came to share on how developers can leverage emerging tech to achieve more. He announced new Azure data and cloud services for developers to modernize existing apps. There was also news on new AI and Azure services to build intelligent apps with understanding and natural user interaction capabilities.
From Day 1 Keynote, developers here are some updates :
Azure Batch AI Training is a new Azure offering
Microsoft has the industry’s broadest offering of cognitive services with 29 of them now, and with unique customization options
Do you live in and around Durban, South Africa and are looking to experience this years Microsoft Build event with fellow enthusiasts? This is for you!
Microsoft South Africa, IMMEDIA and Microsoft 2017 MVP Pivendren Naik are hosting a viewing event and party for Build 2017.
Microsoft Build 2017 takes place 10th – 12th May 2017 in Seattle, United States but will be livestreamed. The event will feature many developer sessions and highlight the latest Microsoft technologies.
To promote a culture of open learning and engagement, we will be hosting this event at our home, for interested developers and Microsoft enthusiasts to share this experience and discuss monumental breakthroughs and developments with one another as the action unfolds. Come join us for snacks and good conversation! – IMMEDIA
The viewing event will take place 6–8 pm SAST on Thursday 11th of May at The Commons, 73 Richefond Circle, Level 1 eNCA Building, Ridgeside Office Park, Durban, KZN 4321.
The IMMEDIA team will also be in Seattle so there’ll be quite a number of things they’ll see and experience that will be shared at the event.
Pivendren teases there’ll be Pizza and prizes to be won.
“Anniversary Update is coming this summer with waves of new features.”
The next major update to Windows 10 (code named Redstone) dubbed the Anniversary Update by Microsoft has been unveiled and it’s expected to be available to consumers sometime this summer (July 2016).
Here are a few facts from Terry Myerson, Executive Vice President, Windows and Devices Group about how Windows 10 has fared since launch;
In the eight months since launch, Windows 10 is off to the fastest start in Windows history, with over 270 million active devices, outpacing Windows 7 in the same timeframe by 145%. People are spending more time on Windows than ever before – over 75 billion hours – with the highest customer satisfaction of any version of Windows. We are on track to reach our ambitious goal of one billion Windows 10 devices in the next few years.
We welcome everyone to Windows 10, whether you have a new PC, a five-year-old PC, or a brand new Mac – we are building the most secure, productive, and fun platform for you.
The Windows 10 anniversary update is going to be free and available to all windows 10 users.
Some of the features coming in the anniversary update include:
1. Windows Hello Brings Biometric Security to Apps and Microsoft Edge
With the Windows 10 Anniversary Update it’s possible for you to use the same easy, yet strong, security of Windows Hello with Windows apps and Microsoft Edge, the first and only browser to natively support biometrics, with supporting sites.
2. Windows Ink Brings the Power of Windows to the Tip of Your Pen
Windows Ink is an all new experience, putting the power of Windows in the tip of your pen, enabling you to write on your device as you do on paper, creating sticky notes, drawing on a whiteboard, and easily sharing your analog thoughts in the digital world. Windows Ink is integrated into apps like Maps, Microsoft Edge and Office.
3. Cortana, Now More Helpful than Ever, with over 1,000 apps
Cortana will be available above the lock screen, giving you quicker access to your personal assistant for common tasks across all types of devices without unlocking your PC.
4. UWP apps come to Xbox through a Unified Windows Store and every Xbox One can become a dev kit With the Anniversary Update, any Xbox One can be a developer kit with Xbox Dev Mode, enabling anyone to develop for the living room
Also if you are already a Windows Insider then you might probably be using some of these features. If not you can try the new innovations coming in the Windows 10 Anniversary Update by joining the Windows Insider program and install the latest build.
NB: Starting today developers in the Windows Insider Program can access the Windows Anniversary SDK Preview to explore the new features.
Microsoft’s new internet browser designed to replace internet explorer code named “Project Spartan” has finally been revealed as “Microsoft EDGE” at the //Build/ 2015 developers conference.
The logo design picks up traits from internet explorer(IE), and the naming probably comes from the rendering engine; EdgeHTML.
Microsoft EDGE is going to be the main web browser on windows 10 devices, windows phones will run mainly on Microsoft Edge, but enterprise and desktop users will also have internet explorer still installed as an option.
