Wednesday, March 30, 2016 was launched at the Moscone Center in San Francisco Microsoft Build 2016. This annual conference, which lasts until 1 April, is aimed at software developers and is often a time when Microsoft announces significant new technologies. Reason enough for me to act as to give an appearance on behalf of my employer. Build focuses on basic technology, such as Windows Azure and Hololens, but the opening was me lightly against.
The welcome address will be made by Satya Nadella himself. Microsoft CEO gets a lot of applause, please let us know if he has news in store for us. He starts from the perspective of the role of technology in our lives is that a positive or negative? Takes about our role, it takes away our privacy? Microsoft wants to be a positive role of technology. Allow that people be more productive and creative
Tomorrow will be the topic Azure and Office 365. Today it is mostly about Windows. Next presenter is also the head of Windows Unit:. Terry Meyerson
He announced that this summer a refresh Windows 10 will be free for all Windows 10 users, with many new features. Major focus will be the use of the pen. Using the pen tablet is currently limited to Windows Users do not really know how to use it. Therefore, it will come at different places in the Windows user interface support for use with the pen to make it more discoverable . There will also be a special category in the App Store for pen-enabled apps.
home for Developers
Meyerson stressed that he wants Windows ‘home’ to be for developers. Not only Windows developers, but all developers: even Web, Android and Apple development. It’s no secret that today many developers working on Apple hardware with OS X. Many development tools (such as Node and NPM) are outside of the Windows ecosystem development and work distress as a result, on Windows.
to change that comes a revelation: Microsoft has developed a new Windows subsystem on top of a number of Linux tools ported together with Canonical. The most visible: the Bash shell is coming to Windows! As proof of the possibilities is given a demo of an application made in Ruby that native WinRT APIs calls.
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then, another issue is raised: the range of applications in the Windows Store. It seems to be Microsoft’s plan to bring to the modern world the wide range of legacy Windows applications. Microsoft introduces the Desktop App Converter which produces classic Windows apps to the Windows Store. It is possible to upgrade old installers: InstallShield and WIX can now directly generate appx packages for the Windows Store. Classic Windows applications can also get modern additions, such as Tiles and notifications, which can be added in a separate project on the existing applications.
Terry Meyerson announces Phil Spencer and the subject comes Gaming. In a video of Apex, creator of Forza, announced that henceforth they will release their games on Xbox One and Windows 10. The next revelation: it is now possible to develop their own apps for Xbox! That took a long time, this was expected two years ago. But now it is finally possible that there will soon be a setting to turn an Xbox into Developer Mode , after which it is possible to side-load apps and debugging. All controls for Windows 10 Universal apps are designed for use with a game controller. Configuring the process of an Xbox and install apps seems very accessible.
Hololens and bots
the next presenter Alex Kippman, creator of the Hololens. He has many years of working on this project, and today will be the first Hololens devices are available for developers and partners. A team at Microsoft has built a demo app for the past six weeks: Galaxy Explorer. This application contains all the elements of a complete Hololens app, such as 3D visualization, interaction, animation and sound. The source code is available on Github, so developers can take code from here in their own apps
The following is a surprise. Microsoft releases a new framework for the development of Crash . This may seem trivial, but it is not. Microsoft has just concluded and others that natural language and chat are important for mobile apps, and that there is a need for a good technical framework for interpreting natural language. Of course, Microsoft has a lot of experience in the field of speech recognition: I see in the Bot SDK elements returned from the earlier speech SDK to develop a Grammar with synonyms, different textures and so on. This version works naturally beautiful and has new elements such as Machine Learning: the system senses that does not understand escalate to a physical person, which can extend the grammar so that the next time the instruction it is understood
. Keynote concludes with a video about a blind programmer at Microsoft. This employee takes us into a video into his world. He has worked on an application that machine learning and image classification applied to convert the visual environment into spoken words. The system expresses a skateboarder performing a trick for him, and a girl throws an orange frisbee. That his interlocutor is a twenty-wife, and laughs. Very evident and impressive use of the new machine learning systems that Microsoft makes available today. This feel-good item, in which the benefits of technology are reflected, the first keynote will be concluded with a thunderous applause.
My impressions
I must say I’m a bit disappointed in the first keynote. The only positive surprise was the new Unix subsystem. That’s a smart move, it shows that Microsoft really is trying to win back developers on the Windows platform. The cross-platform approach to Microsoft’s popular with the developer audience and a good story Linux is an essential element. If Microsoft continues on the path of openness towards all other platforms could start this work.
Windows apps on Xbox and Xbox as a platform for apps on the TV screen is not a surprise announcement. I am very curious what kind of applications this will bring. The potential to enrich the possible broadcast TV with an app, but the challenge remains the limited number of users of XBox. It remains primarily a gaming system.
What I really missed was a strategy for Windows Phone. It is obvious that Windows Phone in the natural strategy remains outgunned platform. The product itself is not the problem: Windows Phone is a fantastic OS. The problem is the Windows App Store: it has a slightly overtaking bare behind in the field of mobile apps compared to iOS and Android. Adding conventional desktop apps as announced will not change this situation, what is needed is a way to bring all the Windows Phone Apps from one of the two market leaders. In the previous Build presented thereto bridge two different technologies: Android and iOS apps. Today no word on both technologies. Perhaps one on Day 2 (Thursday, March 31) focuses on Windows Phone? I hope it
Maarten Sikkema
This article is from Computable .com (https://www.computable.nl/artikel/5730732). © Jaarbeurs IT Media.
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