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Microsoft Build 2016 live keynote
- Someone1234 11y agoIs any media site doing a "live blog" of this? Similar to what Mac Rumours do for Apple? edit: Looks like The Verge has something here: https://live.theverge.com/microsoft-build-2016-live-blog/ https://live.theverge.com/microsoft-build-2016-live-blog/
- Qworg 11y agohttp://live.arstechnica.com/microsoft-build-2016-day-1-keynote/ http://live.arstechnica.com/microsoft-build-2016-day-1-keyno...
- tetraodonpuffer 11y agoanandtech too http://www.anandtech.com/show/10201/microsoft-build-2016-keynote-live-blog http://www.anandtech.com/show/10201/microsoft-build-2016-key...
- BinaryIdiot 11y agoWhich is handy because the build keynote usually goes on, with brakes, for such a long time and so much stuff is discussed.
- tkubacki 11y agoHey MS - next time please stream on YT - got big lags
- 0xFFC 11y agoI have nothing against streaming in YT, But it is not wise to stream at YT only at all. In so many countries YT is blocked.
- kenrick95 11y agoI think they prefer using their own platform (Azure-based) to do live streaming.
- dmihal 11y agoThey should probably use Pied Piper, middle-out is unmatched
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- oedenfield 11y agohttps://youtu.be/GgutlKV42SY https://youtu.be/GgutlKV42SY
- velmu 11y agoAww yiss... I'm loving it!
- Zekio 11y agoTurn any Xbox One into a dev kit O.o
- asendra 11y agoThey have been saying that for over two years.
- e40 11y ago"Fastest Windows adoption ever" Yeah, I know a bunch of people that had the 10 upgrade forced upon them. Making it a default "Windows Update" is certainly one way to get your adoption stats up!
- gokhan 11y agoMine got updated through a specific application and never heard of Windows 10 update through Windows Update, let alone a forced one. The only forced thing was that the update application came to tray automatically and stayed there until I opt-in.
- partiallypro 11y agoIt's more likely that they accidentally opted in, various stories about this sort of thing have been debunked to accidental opt-ins.
- stcredzero 11y agoSo it's a somewhat lighter dark pattern.
- sgift 11y agoEnlighten me: Someone clicked in typical "just ok everything"-mode on "update to Windows 10" and ... surprise ... it updated to Windows 10. Dark pattern? I don't see it.
- rdudek 11y agoPeople like latest and greatest things, so they see a pop-up "Hey, Windows 10 is here! Click here to upgrade!". And the person is like "SWEET! GIVE IT TO ME!". After 1 hour of upgrading, user is back in Windows 10, "Damnit, some of my shit ain't working! Goddamn automatic upgrade!"
- Alphasite_ 11y agoRepeatedly throwing a question at users and being surprised that they eventually slip up and install it is probably a dark pattern.
- agildehaus 11y agoThe guy in the Fedora is trying way too hard.
- shogun21 11y agoYo, make some noise if you like to breathe! That guy knows what I'm talking about!
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- partiallypro 11y agoAll of his presentations are like that, it's his personality.
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- paulojreis 11y agoWhich is something I really don't get, at all. This all looks and sounds way much nerd-ier just because they try so desperately to look cool.
- skc 11y agoPretty sure that's just that guys personality. Why would you extrapolate his persona to all of Microsoft?
- iLoch 11y agoWell they chose him to represent them for a reason presumably, and it may be related to his ability to speak well. He's a little over the top but not to a fault in my opinion. It's close though.
- paulojreis 11y agoActually, I was talking about this kind of too-deliberate-to-be-true and trying-too-hard-to-look-cool atmosphere at Microsoft events, not about Bryan Roper's style in particular.
- iamthepieman 11y agofacebook advertisement and customer metric integration as if the native telemetry wasn't enough now you can add more to your apps.
- kp1234321 11y agoMicrosoft needs to offer gym reimbursement to its employees
- Analemma_ 11y ago"The bash shell is coming to Windows" Whoa.
- danielcampos93 11y agoNow the question is how well will it work.
- kyriakos 11y agoNot a lot of details given. Just that its not cross compilation or vm
- be5invis 11y agoI saw C:\windows\system32\bash AFAIK it is a clean-room implementation of Linux APIs. It is native.
- ubertaco 11y agoHanselman wrote up a "demo" blog post here: http://www.hanselman.com/blog/DevelopersCanRunBashShellAndUsermodeUbuntuLinuxBinariesOnWindows10.aspx http://www.hanselman.com/blog/DevelopersCanRunBashShellAndUs...
- nickysielicki 11y agoThey wrote the equvilant of Wine for Windows-- Binary compatible, apparently just translating system calls. There's a joke that says people who hate Windows use Linux and those who love Unix use BSD. Microsoft seems to think that's true, too.
- bovermyer 11y agoThe blog he links to near the end is a very raw WordPress blog on the microsoft.com domain. That's entertaining.
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- kyriakos 11y agoWin32 to UWP converter Facebook, Instagram and messenger apps coming
- nojvek 11y ago"Windows is a fully open ecosystem". Uhhhhh right :S
- wmccullough 11y agoExcept that it really is becoming that way.
- mwcampbell 11y agoReally interested in modern desktop apps and the desktop app converter. Are these actually available yet?
- kyriakos 11y agoSo what's the benefit of converting Win32 to UWP other than publishing to Windows store?
- Eyas 11y agoIn addition to what doikor said, you get sandboxing aka "trust".
- doikor 11y agoYou can run your app on xbox one and windows phone. Access to some new APIs.
- m_fayer 11y agoIf you can distribute through the Windows store only, hopefully it will be the end of the hideously unpleasant task of creating Windows installers.
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- bpye 11y agoYou get all the new WinRT APIs.
- tartuffe78 11y agoMicrosoft gets 30% of your revenue.
- gagege 11y ago"...Age of Empires 2 running as a modern desktop app..." I could not care less. If I'm a developer who has a game in Steam, why would I want to do this? To divide my user base?
- Someone1234 11y agoWhy would it divide your user base? Isn't it being used as a glorified package manager? Everything is still Win32 under the hood.
- gagege 11y agoWell, since the game is no longer married to Steam at that point, my users would be losing Steam's achievements, mods and matchmaking. Am I not understanding that right?
- cwyers 11y agoThey showed off installing mods from Steamworks in Age of Empires II during the demo.
- gagege 11y agoThose were mods from SteamWorks? Sorry, I didn't catch that part. I still genuinely wonder why I would want to convert my app into a "modern desktop app".
- Aleman360 11y agoSandboxed security. Easier install/uninstall. Backup/restore. Live tiles and notifications Downloadable from the Windows Store (which means it will show up in Cortana search results when searching for it, even if it's not installed) Ability to use excellent new WinRT API's Deep linking Share to other apps easily (e.g., post to Facebook) etc.
- vvanders 11y agoAny retail Xbox one as a devkit, yikes that's awesome. I remember the days of the tens-of-thousands-of-$ devkits. Probably won't have the extra memory but that only really matters if you're building something right up against the memory size barrier.
- asendra 11y agoOnly UWP Apps, access to just 1GB of ram.
- nimish 11y agoSUA lives again!
- girkyturkey 11y agoAfter seeing some really impressive stuff, I cannot wait to test this stuff on my own! I mean seriously, a retail Xbox One as a devkit? That is so amazing I can't even comprehend it!
- umeshunni 11y agoIt's almost like a computer that you can write programs on and even run those programs on.
- asendra 11y agoOnly UWP Apps, acces to only 1gb ram.
- cableshaft 11y agoIs that finally ready to go (I haven't been able to check out the links)? That's been basically known to people who follow game dev news that it was an upcoming feature since a little before the console launched, it's just been nothing but a promise up to this point. If it's finally released, awesome. That's a major reason why I decided to get an Xbox One over PS4. I made games with XNA on the previous system, so I'm excited to finally get to start developing on the Xbox One.
- giancarlostoro 11y agoReally hoping XNA gets a reboot, even if it became a completely different project as long as it accomplishes the same goals.
- cableshaft 11y agoLooks like Unity is the engine Microsoft picked this go around to support Xbox One development. Maybe XNA will be resurrected at some point, but I doubt it will be anytime soon. XNA was nice and fun to program with, but I think Unity is generally a better game engine, it's still C#/.NET development, the base version of Unity is pretty open and free now, and you're not locked into "The Microsoft Platform" with it. So overall I'm pretty satisfied. I could probably even quickly port some of the XNA code over with minimal changes (not the graphics, unfortunately. Assumed a fixed size 2D viewport for all my layout and animation code, which was a mistake).
- kefka 11y agoWhat about the horrible performance issues with Universal Windows Apps? http://www.howtogeek.com/243012/why-you-shouldnt-buy-rise-of-the-tomb-raider-and-other-pc-games-from-the-windows-store/ http://www.howtogeek.com/243012/why-you-shouldnt-buy-rise-of... In a nutshell... No SLI or CrossFire VSync is Always On Always Borderless Fullscreen Mode No Modding No .exe File (and No Steam Controller) No Overlays Mouse Macros Won’t Work No Clear Refund Policy Only for Windows 10 And that applies to anything running as a "Universal App". This seems very anti-customer, and a great reason to buy elsewhere (or, well, encourage piracy through bad policies/technical limitations). What is Microsoft doing to ameliorate these significant issues? Edit: Really now? Some of those issues were addressed during the video(still no transcript), yet many others still stand. So one takes a karma hit for asking tough questions?
- cwyers 11y agoThey covered a lot of those -- SLI and VSync will get fixed in a May update, they showed off mods for Age of Empires II, they talked about overlay support.
- kefka 11y ago> They covered a lot of those -- SLI and VSync will get fixed in a May update, they showed off mods for Age of Empires II, they talked about overlay support. Unfortunately, I've been around the block and then some. I've heard the empty platitudes of promises for X and Y features, yet later on it's considered inconvenient to implement. But as of right now, SLI and VSync are broken. I did see the AoE2 mods. Having not played that game, I took those mods to not actually modify the base executable. In other words, it appears you can load in-game mods, but absolutely verboten to touch the 'executable'... because there is none in any usable form.
- douche 11y agoI'm not sure I'd be comfortable running mods that binary-patched the exe, anyway. Outside of a few old, old, abandonware-type games that never had bugs fixed, I'm pretty sure the overwhelming majority of game mods just swap out assets, data, and some scripted logic.
- nojvek 11y agoI think hololens is quite mind blowing though. I can totally see myself exporting class dependency graphs and exploring them in 3D.
- KON_Air 11y agoWill Cortana come with a thorough uninstaller?
- jpalomaki 11y agoSiri, Cortana, Google Now and others..Software agents are finally here. When I got my first notifications from Google Now some years ago it was the first time my phone actually felt smart. If Microsoft and others can figure out good ways to open these to the developers I bet this will be pretty big thing.
- cbeach 11y agoDon’t forget Tay: http://uk.businessinsider.com/microsoft-deletes-racist-genocidal-tweets-from-ai-chatbot-tay-2016-3 http://uk.businessinsider.com/microsoft-deletes-racist-genoc...
- evilsnobu 11y agoPhotos leak ahead of //build revealing new Azure datacenters in an unexpected location - https://twitter.com/evilSnobu/status/715179290099363842 https://twitter.com/evilSnobu/status/715179290099363842
- evilsnobu 11y agoPhotos leak ahead of //build revealing new Azure datacenters in an unexpected location: https://twitter.com/evilSnobu/status/715179290099363842 https://twitter.com/evilSnobu/status/715179290099363842
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- vijayr 11y agoAny updates on Xamarin? Are they going to make it more affordable?
- Mafana0 11y agoXamarin session is on March 31 at 2:00PM PDT.