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Microsoft Build 2017 [video]

202 points| AlexeyBrin | 9 years ago |channel9.msdn.com | reply

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[+] swalsh|9 years ago|reply
The technology demonstrated today should have everyone concerned. Satya talked about the responsibilities that we, as technologists have... but the power isn't going to be in OUR hands, it's going to be in the hands of the people who own the technology we build. The world outside of tech needs to see this.
[+] tomsthumb|9 years ago|reply
The classic "I'm going to make all the decisions but you're responsible for our success" spiel.
[+] glibgil|9 years ago|reply
So, capitalism?
[+] sz4kerto|9 years ago|reply
I should say -- tracking people through video and image recognition in a hospital or in a factory is creepy and awesome at the same time. I can't decide just yet.
[+] laxentasken|9 years ago|reply
"Find me the person who ate the last piece of cake in the fridge."
[+] atonse|9 years ago|reply
Yes definitely both (I'm feeling the same).

However, these immediate policy violations are strange to me. As someone who writes software for a lot of field crews, these kinds of exceptions happen _all the time_ and very often they're for explainable reasons. (the guy's hands were busy, he asked his buddy to move the heavy tool).

I'm sure they're aware of this but you have to work in some kind of tolerance to these kinds of compliance violations, because the ultimate goal is increased safety, not finger-wagging.

[+] AlexeyBrin|9 years ago|reply
Now I start to understand the reference to 1984 and Brave New World from the beginning of the keynote.
[+] jasonkostempski|9 years ago|reply
It will very quickly go from workplace safety to public safety.
[+] pizzetta|9 years ago|reply
I think this has great potential in in the ER and in Surgery to ensure the basics are followed and forgetfulness does not allow for obvious mistakes --but at the same time allow for on the spot decisionmaking for the surgeon when things don't go as planned.
[+] marsrover|9 years ago|reply
I feel the same way. It will make working in an environment like this a tab bit more stressful, I'm sure.
[+] swalsh|9 years ago|reply
The beginning of this keynote is very unusual, instead of the "pumped up check out our new products"... he's talking about the responsibility of technologists? Guessing Microsoft has some cool AI stuff coming.
[+] joedissmeyer|9 years ago|reply
Yep I think you are right. Satya just mentioned bots. Also, I'm pretty sure they'll show off Microsoft Home Hub in Windows 10 today.
[+] Jare|9 years ago|reply
Exactly my thoughts. Raised stakes in the discourse. This either delivers, or will become a shower of BS.
[+] partisan|9 years ago|reply
My guess is that he's talking about the responsibility of technologists because they are rolling out Windows 10 S, which is a step towards leaving behind Win32, an "unsafe" API that is heavily invested in by their core programmer base.

That and they go on to show technology that can be used ways that could cause privacy concerns.

[+] KirinDave|9 years ago|reply
"Data has gravity and computation will move to it."

Eloquent as always.

[+] dkhenry|9 years ago|reply
I thought that was an exceptional way of phrasing that phenomenon, and the best pitch for moving compute back out to the edge that I have heard.
[+] discordance|9 years ago|reply
Beats the old 'developers! developers! developers!' script for sure.
[+] partisan|9 years ago|reply
Real-time translation is the type of technology that has practical implementations. I could care less about finding designers on LinkedIn via a voice command. But if I am stuck somewhere in another country and unsure where to go or how to communicate, I guarantee I will be happy to have that translation service available.

Here is an idea for a service: You lease the translation service for the term of your trip for a dollar a day. You can lease on demand for 24 hours for 5 dollars.

[+] sidcool|9 years ago|reply
The Parkinson's device is awesome
[+] partisan|9 years ago|reply
I'm not teary eyed at all.

I am so impressed by the device and her reaction. Something so small can give someone just enough sense of control in their lives. It's incredible.

[+] jbrooksuk|9 years ago|reply
I've not watched Build yet, but Project Emma was created as part of The Big Life Fix which was on BBC 1 (UK).

I watched the episode and was blown away!

[+] MrBra|9 years ago|reply
I have just watched the part where Emma Lawton was there as a guest. I wonder why did not they do a live demonstration of the device?
[+] akavel|9 years ago|reply
Anyone know of some high-quality (meaning: good reporting, high signal-to-noise ratio), live, textual ("SFW") commentary stream covering the event? (blog? twitter? reddit? some IT news agency?)
[+] oridecon|9 years ago|reply
In my experience it's better to wait for everything to be digested and released in text format. There's just too much bullshit to cut through. Live events are a world of cringe that I can't handle anymore. Last one I watched was NVIDIA's "Tom" incident, never again. Anandtech did a good job with the live blog, and that event was like 95% bullshit and 5% content.
[+] avtar|9 years ago|reply
MS should have used their Azure speech recognition service to create live speech-to-text transcripts...
[+] staticelf|9 years ago|reply
Interesting that many, if not most, presentations is done on MacOS.
[+] huslage|9 years ago|reply
A lot of demos are, but the actual presentations are in PowerPoint. I was watching the people in the booth run them.
[+] 0xFFC|9 years ago|reply
So far it has been Azure Build, not Microsoft Build. Everything is about azure so far.
[+] WorldMaker|9 years ago|reply
A theme this year is that the Cloud isn't just "someone else's PC" anymore. A lot of the discussions have been about several ways of running and deploying "cloud"/Azure apps on "the edges", aka user devices and IoT machines. There was the expected emphasis on Azure Stack, the on premises version of Azure. There was the new Azure IoT stack. There were many references to Project Rome (and it's Enterprise name Microsoft Device Graph) for device roaming and contextual knowledge about all of a user's devices.

Some of the implication is that "everything is Cloud" now. Serverless (AWS Lambda/Azure Functions) and "Cloud" container models may increasingly be a way applications are built and deployed, to any device, including end user devices.

Microsoft seems to be positioning that Azure is increasingly a platform for every type of application, from IoT, to on premises Enterprise, to, of course, Cloud, and possibly everything between.

[+] sbuttgereit|9 years ago|reply
I think that reflects where they see their predominant opportunity. How much "Blue Ocean" is there left for desktop operating systems and applications? Or what use to inhabit the Enterprise data center (Server OSs, Groupware, etc)? You could coast on that more traditional business for some time, but if you're going for real growth opportunities, seems like they've got a pretty good idea where the lies.

I would add that if an Azure strategy works out for them, the "device" wars (be it Win vs. iOS vs. Android or Desktop vs. Mobile) really won't matter if they manage to be at the center of it all.

[+] Analemma_|9 years ago|reply
There are two keynotes: one today and one tomorrow. The one tomorrow will be about Windows et al.
[+] MrBra|9 years ago|reply
Sorry if this sounds completely dumb but I can't hold it:

Can anyone explain what's with this: "you are running ML algorithms in the cloud, and we enable you to run them locally!"

Can't we already run them locally??? Why not run them locally in the first place if speed and low latency is required?

[+] sidcool|9 years ago|reply
This conference is going really really well. I am impressed at the products.
[+] MrBra|9 years ago|reply
Speech recognition failed 2 times before managing to translate the Chinese speech: the sentence to be translate was (in Chinese) "AI is fantastic". Isn't this ridiculous ?
[+] MrBra|9 years ago|reply
Watching this now... am I the only one who thinks it's a breath of fresh air compared to the mess of the JS world?
[+] MrBra|9 years ago|reply
Machine learning procedures stored inside a SQL server ???

How ugly can that be?

[+] sidcool|9 years ago|reply
They are using iOS device.
[+] sidcool|9 years ago|reply
Terminals in browser is the next cool thing.