Build conference is over..
Here’s combined summaries of what happened at //Build 2016.
Thanks to YTechie, Gastblogger Toni@Codefest and many others 🙂

Windows

• Windows Announcement Highlights
• “Anniversary Update” free
• 270 million installs
• Edge will allow biometric authentication for websites
• “Ink workspace” shows inking apps and recent pen apps
• Sticky notes are smart
• Facebook, instagram, messenger bringing first party UWP apps to the store
• Linux Subsystem – bringing BASH and more to windows
  • Not emulated, it’s the real binaries
• Android notifications
• Start menu: https://twitter.com/JenMsft/status/716844501789069312/photo/1
• What’s new in UWP: https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/2016/B809
• UWP
  • Modern Desktop App Installer allows double-click install of Appx
  • Centennial converter
• Edge extension support
• Cortana extensibility
• Action Center in the cloud
  • Notification mirroring between desktop and phone – even on Android
  • Sync live tiles

Visual Studio

• Update 2 available today
• Visual Studio 2017 preview
  • Show dependencies that are in GitHub
  • Search samples without leaving the IDE

Xbox

• Turn a standard xbox into a dev box today
  • Remote debugging is supported
• Unified into the Windows store, will run UWP
  • Overview
  • Limitations
• Cortana coming to xbox with Anniversary update

Hololens

• Galaxy explorer
  • Open source
  • In the store

Skype

• UWP app
• Cortana integration for brokering conversations
• Video bots
  • SDK available today at dev.skype.com
• Skype for hololens

Bots

• Available for integration in things like skype
• Microsoft bot framework – dev.botframework.com

Microsoft Cognitive

• https://www.microsoft.com/cognitive-services
• https://www.captionbot.ai/ 

Xamarin

• Free for Visual Studio customers
• Free for Visual Studio community customers
• Xamarin studio free for mac free with MSDN
• There will be a free version of Xamarin studio on Mac
• Xamarin is going open source

Azure

• Azure Functions https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/functions/
• Service fabric
• GA
• Linux support
• IoT starter kits for sale
• Document DB
  • Global databases
  • Decouple size and perf
  • Use any standard MongoDB drivers
• PowerBI Embedded
  • Integrate PowerBI in your applications
  • Public preview starts today
  • Free until May 1st
• Parse server available
• Azure Batch for Linux Preview
• Storage encryption preview
• Storage roadmap annoucements
• Azure SDK 2.9
• ARM Template debugging
• DV2 instance sizes
• 20 cores, 140GB RAM, 1TB SSD, 8 NICs, 40 disks
• The new Dv2 VM:
  • Name is Standard_D15_v2
  • These are isolated to hardware dedicated to a single customer
• JSON support in Azure SQL DB V12 (public preview)
• VM Scale Sets – GA
• Azure Data Catalog – GA
• MongoDB protocol support for DocumentDB 
  • Allows code written to MongoDB APIs to use DocumentDB under the covers

Office 365

• Latest tools available today
• Ribbon extensibility
• GA Office 365 group connectors
• GA of Skype for Business SDK
• Calendar integration
• Sideloading of add-ins

SQL Server

• 2016 RC1 available

HoloLens

• Emulator is now available for download:
  • https://developer.microsoft.com/en-US/windows/holographic/using_the_hololens_emulator
  • https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/holographic/install_the_tools

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