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Microsoft Build 2017 [video]
- swalsh 9y agoThe 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.
- Jare 9y agoExactly my thoughts. Raised stakes in the discourse. This either delivers, or will become a shower of BS.
- joedissmeyer 9y agoYep 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.
- partisan 9y agoMy 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 9y ago"Data has gravity and computation will move to it." Eloquent as always.
- dkhenry 9y agoI 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 9y agoBeats the old 'developers! developers! developers!' script for sure.
- mozumder 9y agoNothing beats "Developers! Developers! Developers!"
- MS_Buys_Upvotes 9y ago> Eloquent as always. Stolen, as always. Never change Microsoft. http://readwrite.com/2012/05/07/what-data-gravity-means-to-your-data/ http://readwrite.com/2012/05/07/what-data-gravity-means-to-y...
- rmccoy6435 9y agoI fail to see that quote in the entire article. EDIT: Just read your username, you already have a predisposition to Microsoft.
- MS_Buys_Upvotes 9y agoIf you want word for word proof here you go! http://highscalability.com/blog/2015/3/25/the-convergence-that-changes-everything-data-gravity-contain.html http://highscalability.com/blog/2015/3/25/the-convergence-th... My flagged comment is still 100% correct: Microsoft "borrowed" this concept. I assume the people who flagged my original are gonna have the onions to unflag it, right?
- barfbuttface 9y agoI don't think his predisposition changes the reality of it.
- sz4kerto 9y agoI 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 9y ago"Find me the person who ate the last piece of cake in the fridge."
- Analemma_ 9y ago"And next time they go into the supply closet, lock them in"
- orbitingpluto 9y ago"And route all supply runs to alternative locations for the next two days. Order cake to be delivered to supply closet in 47 hours."
- pizzetta 9y agoThat sounds kind of nice --but this can lead to a very sterile and stifling environment. It has the potential to be overbearing, if abused.
- JoeAltmaier 9y agoI've always been baffled at the 'last piece' cult. That piece is no more important than any other piece of the cake. What's with all the emotional baggage surrounding it?
- martijn_himself 9y agoI found this is a cultural thing, e.g. from my personal experience it is not regarded nearly as important in the Netherlands as it is in the United Kingdom.
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- akavel 9y agoAnyone 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?)
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- Angostura 9y agoIts blocked where I work, but http://arstechnica.com http://arstechnica.com may have something going.
- avtar 9y agoMS should have used their Azure speech recognition service to create live speech-to-text transcripts...
- akavel 9y agoRe: myself: https://www.wired.com/2017/05/microsoft-build-2017-liveblog/ https://www.wired.com/2017/05/microsoft-build-2017-liveblog/ has something, but it's too fast and too noisy, and they don't even try to highlight some key "twits" with bold or something :/
- oridecon 9y agoIn 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.
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- sidcool 9y agoThey are using iOS device.
- sidcool 9y agoThe Parkinson's device is awesome
- partisan 9y agoI'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.
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- jbrooksuk 9y agoI'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 9y agoI 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?
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- swalsh 9y agoThe 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.
- sidcool 9y agoTerminals in browser is the next cool thing.
- zhuzhu 9y agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mo6kRl430h4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mo6kRl430h4 . youtube
- sidcool 9y agoThis conference is going really really well. I am impressed at the products.
- staticelf 9y agoInteresting that many, if not most, presentations is done on MacOS.
- huslage 9y agoA lot of demos are, but the actual presentations are in PowerPoint. I was watching the people in the booth run them.
- 0xFFC 9y agoSo far it has been Azure Build, not Microsoft Build. Everything is about azure so far.
- Analemma_ 9y agoThere are two keynotes: one today and one tomorrow. The one tomorrow will be about Windows et al.
- 0xFFC 9y agoI wasn't aware of this. This makes more sense. I thought they have abandoned Windows for a second ;)
- contextfree 9y agoThey have however swapped the order of presentation, which might say something about priorities. Previous MSBuilds have all been day 1 Windows, day 2 Azure.
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- sbuttgereit 9y agoI 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.
- WorldMaker 9y agoA 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.
- partisan 9y agoReal-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.
- wikibob 9y agoGoogle already has this for consumers for free. Voice, text, and OCR on images. Google Translate by Google, Inc. https://appsto.re/us/kT-Ty.i https://appsto.re/us/kT-Ty.i
- BorisEm 9y agoSo does Microsoft. Microsoft Translator: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/microsoft-translator/id1018949559?mt=8 https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/microsoft-translator/id10189...
- tracker1 9y agoI find that MS's translation tends to work slightly better... though Google is imho better in voice recognition. However, I really want to see all IVR systems burn in hell.
- elle4096 9y agoFYI "I could care less" is probably not what you meant. It's "couldn't care less" [1]. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=om7O0MFkmpw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=om7O0MFkmpw
- omaranto 9y ago"I could care less" is an idiom, it means the same thing as "I couldn't care less". (This may seem somewhat odd, but it's perfectly natural once you know it started out as sarcastic.)
- MrBra 9y agoWatching 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 9y agoMachine learning procedures stored inside a SQL server ??? How ugly can that be?
- MrBra 9y agoSorry 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?
- MrBra 9y agoSpeech 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 ?