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Day 1 of Microsoft’s Build 2016 conference is over and boy, what a day it was! At a time when just about everything is leaked a few months in advance, when even Apple’s keynotes have long since lost their lustre, Microsoft’s opening keynote was something special. Changes to the Universal Windows Platform, the Windows 10 Anniversary update, Ink API, the cognitive bot framework, Bash within Windows and so much more were announced on Day 1. We doubt if anything can top that, but Microsoft CEO, Satya Nadella has promised to deliver today as well. Follow the live blog below for up to the minute updates:
Live Blog: Day 2 of Microsoft's Build 2016 conference
Live Blog: Day 2 of Microsoft's Build 2016 conference
tech2 News Staff
• April 1, 2016, 00:03:16 IST
Day 2 of Build 2016 is just about to start. Follow this live blog for up to the minute updates
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April 1, 2016, 00:03:16 (IST)
“We’ve had a great Build so far, but there’s more coming!”
Thank you so much for all your time, we appreciate it." -Steven
Seconded
Fin
April 1, 2016, 00:02:25 (IST)
“The sky is not the limit anymore”
8th graders are sending projects to space? Wow!
These kids aren’t writing simple code, they’re creating apps and using Azure. Another ‘wow’ is in order? Yes it is.
March 31, 2016, 23:59:29 (IST)
A project called Quest connects young kids and NASA together.
Now playing a video on Quest
March 31, 2016, 23:58:14 (IST)
You can write your code while wearing the AR headset. No need to go back and forth between the two.
March 31, 2016, 23:56:41 (IST)
We’re now looking at a life-size caterpillar loader on stage.
March 31, 2016, 23:55:42 (IST)
The best part? Anything that works with the plug-in will work with Hololens!
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March 31, 2016, 23:54:04 (IST)
Augmented reality with euphoria plug-in
The demo is running a Unity program.
The camera is pointed at an image and you can get a pop-out 3D model if you desire it.
Very cool
March 31, 2016, 23:51:10 (IST)
The SurfaceHub is on stage! A $22,000 PC with 100 point multi-touch
March 31, 2016, 23:38:23 (IST)
“What if Scott Guthrie was a penguin?”
That’s a disturbing image indeed.
March 31, 2016, 23:33:33 (IST)
Looking at bot framework now.
March 31, 2016, 23:32:08 (IST)
A website on Azure running inside PowerPoint. How do you debug something like this?
We created Vorlon.js for this.
March 31, 2016, 23:30:00 (IST)
“Let’s try to turn a website into an Office add-in
We’ll use manifoldjs for that, which has been expanded to support this process.”
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March 31, 2016, 23:28:22 (IST)
“Let’s talk about Next generation productivity.” – Steven
March 31, 2016, 23:26:08 (IST)
Kevin Hart is the Coder? It’s a short film apparently.
Creating the Kevin Hart app.
“I’m coding, Coding my *** off right now!”
“Ask Kevin”
“STR8 from the Hart”
I’ve no idea what’s going on right now
March 31, 2016, 23:22:15 (IST)
Steven Guggenheimer on stage
March 31, 2016, 23:20:30 (IST)
Go to dev.office.com for documentation, samples and training materials.
March 31, 2016, 23:15:32 (IST)
Office365 Groups have a great space for a notebook, calendar, etc.
Connectors are a great way to integrate activities and alerts with everyone in a group.
Connectors talk to apps like Wunderlist.
March 31, 2016, 23:07:59 (IST)
“I hope you’re seeing the power of the office platform” – Qi Lu
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March 31, 2016, 23:06:11 (IST)
Starbucks and Outlook integrate beautifully with each other.
That looks surprisingly convenient.
March 31, 2016, 23:04:40 (IST)
“We can deliver personalised offers to our customers with the data we gather.”
70 million people use Starbucks app.
21 percent of all transactions are cashless.
March 31, 2016, 23:03:09 (IST)
CTO of Starbucks steps on to the stage
Starbucks is leveraging Microsoft technology.
“We’re full of IOT devices”
Brewing machine uses proprietary technology for example.
“90 million customer transactions per week”
March 31, 2016, 23:01:04 (IST)
Integrating your app with Office365 is going to be possible.
Javascript APIs and more will be available.
March 31, 2016, 22:47:13 (IST)
Nothing of particular interest at the moment. Microsoft Graph API being demoed.
March 31, 2016, 22:38:14 (IST)
We have more than 16 million monthly office users on Office 365. Adding more than 50,000 business users every month to Office 365.
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March 31, 2016, 22:30:28 (IST)
Demo over, Scott returns.
“There’s never been a better time to be a developer”
March 31, 2016, 22:26:10 (IST)
Power BI is available as a free public preview till 1 May.
More free stuff! Yay!
March 31, 2016, 22:24:06 (IST)
Perfect for SaaS developers (Software as a Service)
March 31, 2016, 22:23:50 (IST)
Lara Rubbelke of Micrsoft demoes data handling with Power BI for Azure
March 31, 2016, 22:23:12 (IST)
Milliman uses azure to deal with millions of daily requests from consumers.
Milliman is one of the largest acturial consulting firms in the world.
Cloud was the best option for maximum compute power for crunching the massive numbers.
Power BI for Azure helps us do this.
We have no concerns or hesitations with regards to Azure scaling to support our requirements.
March 31, 2016, 22:20:29 (IST)
“Walking Dead: No Man’s Land uses Azure.
We can provide new content within 24 hours with Azure.
Azure helps us make a better player vs player experience. Such a high quality, engaging gaming was only possible with the reliability of Azure.”
-Next Games, developers of Walking Dead
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March 31, 2016, 22:17:57 (IST)
DocumentDB now works with MongoDB
Not being a developer, I’m sorry to say that I’ve no idea what that means.
March 31, 2016, 22:15:39 (IST)
DocumentDB is a managed NoSQL database. It scales extremely well and you can run millions of database operations against it with minimal latency.
March 31, 2016, 22:13:25 (IST)
“We can scale instantly and have absolute reliability with Azure”
March 31, 2016, 22:12:20 (IST)
“Big Data is at the heart of AccuWeather”
“We’re using intelligence as the core of AccuWeather”
“We have 2 trillion data objects in an Azure datalink”
March 31, 2016, 22:11:07 (IST)
“Microsoft cloud allows us to scale up and handle that volume” – AccuWeather
The volume in question? Tens of millions of data requests in s hundred different languages, daily.
March 31, 2016, 22:09:54 (IST)
“In Azure you can store any volume and velocity of data. We’re on real time data collection and analysis.
One customer had trillions of data bits stored in the cloud and they’re deriving incredible intelligence from it. All using Azure” – Scott
This is in reference to AccuWeather
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March 31, 2016, 22:07:18 (IST)
Age of Ascent, the game fixes itself when bad code is entered.
March 31, 2016, 22:03:46 (IST)
Tweaking games in real time with Visual Studio
March 31, 2016, 21:52:37 (IST)
Azure IOT starter kits to be announced today.
March 31, 2016, 21:50:11 (IST)
You can set custom rules to respond to the incoming data
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