Need to catch up on Build announcements?
Start here:
- MS News: http://news.microsoft.com/build2016
- MSDN Channel 9: https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/2016
- Build React videos: http://codefoster.com/build16react/
Here’s a quick recap:
Windows Facts and Features
- Windows 10 = Fastest Windows adoption ever (270M+)
- Anniversary Update, coming Summer 2016
- Edge browser to support Windows Hello (biometric login) for websites
- Improved Inking Features: virtual ruler support! Drawing routes in Maps!
- Bash Shell + Linux on Windows!
Windows for Developers
- Windows Store = 60% growth of new devs + Enterprise Apps
- Universal Apps coming from: Starbucks, Facebook, Instagram, Messenger
- Visual Studio 2015 Update 2 just released!
- Windows Anniversary SDK now in Preview
- Develop UWP for Windows
- Use Xamarin for iOS + Android
- Xamarin is free for Visual Studio devs, including free Community Edition!
- Android Emulator + iOS Emulator without devices!
- Desktop App Converter for WIn32 Apps -> Windows Store
Xbox + HoloLens
- Xbox One Dev Mode is now in preview
- Xbox One controller support for Continuum on Windows Phones
- Coming soon to Xbox One: Cortana, background music, etc
- DirectX 12: 13.4M draw calls per second vs 0.7M in DirectX 11
- HoloLens dev kits are shipping now!
- HoloLens in use by: Japan Airlines, Lowe’s, VW & Audi, NASA and JPL, Autodesk, etc
- Destination Mars @ Kennedy Space Center
- Galaxy Explorer open source on GitHub!
Cortana + Skype
- Cortana on the lock screen (coming soon)
- Cortana Intelligence Suite, Cognitive Services and more!
- Skype: groupme, kik, WeChat, Slack, SMS, etc
- Skype + Cortana integration and Skype bots
- Skype for HoloLens! with annotations too
Azure
- Azure IoT (Starter Kits, IoT Hub device mgmt, IoT Gateway SDK)
- Microservices (Azure Service Fabric & Azure Functions)
- Cortana Intelligence Suite (Bot Framework & Cognitive Services)
- Power BI Embedded
- DocumentDB protocol for MongoDB
- Azure Developer Tools, updated
- Virtual Machine Scale Sets
- Storage Service Encryption
Labs
- Build Labs on Github: https://github.com/Microsoft-Build-2016/