Microsoft Build 2016 - All the Announcements That Matter

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella delivers the keynote address during the Microsoft Build 2016 Developers Conference. He spoke about company's vision to empower every human on the planet to do more with Microsoft's services. He made an interesting remark that humans and AIl should co-exist.

Microsoft's vision for Windows 10 is very simple - make every other device run on Windows. At Build 2016, Xbox head Phil Spencer announced how Turn 10 studios, the studio behind popular racing franchise, Forza Motorsport will develop every other game as an UWA going forward. Phil also announced free Forza Motorsport: Apex racing game for Windows 10 computers.

Windows 10

In addition to signing into services using biometrics, Microsoft demoed Windows Ink, which is a new way to implement writing devices such as a stylus and the Surface Pen, to implement writing and scribbling on interfaces.

Windows Ink

HoloLens is shipping to Developers

Microsoft announced that the developer edition is shipping out today. It’s expensive, so it’s not really meant for consumers to buy, but it’s still an important milestone. It was a big moment for the HoloLens team.

The gaming portion of the keynote started out with an announcement that Forza is going to be created as a universal app going forward — so the same one will work on both Xbox One and a Windows PC. Quantum Break and Killer Instinct will also come to Windows 10.

X-Box

The Bash shell is coming to Windows. Even if that sentence is gibberish to you, it’s still meaningful. You can think of it as Windows supporting Linux — native Ubuntu binaries can run on Windows, and Microsoft partnered with Canonical to do it.

Windows supporting Linux

The next generation of Skype will talk to bots

Microsoft keeps pushing Skype, and now it’s making it a lot smarter. Basically, Skype will be able to talk to Cortana, which "brokers" a conversation with a third-party bot. All this intelligence can even work in real time, inside a video chat. Skype users can just add "video bots" to their chat.

References

http://www.theverge.com/2016/3/30/11317924/microsoft-event-news-recap-hololens-windows-10-build-2016

http://thetechportal.in/2016/03/31/microsoft-launches-event-driven-computing-service-azure-functions-preview/

http://techcrunch.com/2016/03/30/be-very-afraid-hell-has-frozen-over-bash-is-coming-to-windows-10/

http://www.in.techradar.com/news/computing/pc/Build-2016-the-biggest-news-from-Day-1-and-2/articleshow/51618901.cms

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