Ready for Day 2 of Build. Looking forward hearing more about Azure and C#.
**14.34**
#bldwin #Build2015 that’s a warp with some orchestral music. Thanks @duluca @sahllt @wynv
**14.27**
Holographic pathfinding
**14.24**
#bldwin #Build2015 Microsoft HoloLens is completely untethered.
**14.14**
#bldwin #Build2015 Microsoft brings the mouse to the real world!
**14.12**
#bldwin #Build2015 Mixed reality reinvents productivity.
**14.12**
All universal apps scale to any size on the Windows Holographic platform.
**14.08**
#bldwin #Build2015 New SKU? Windows Holographic.
**14.07**
#bldwin #Build2015 Windows Holographic platform is annouced.
**14.05**
#bldwin #Build2015 Alex Kipmann is out to show HoloLens.
**14.05**
**14.04**
#bldwin #Build2015 Are phones the next laptops thanks to Continuum?
**14.01**
#bldwin #Build2015 One last thing: Continuum comes to phones, which looks like a Windows PC if connected to a TV. Giving you full blown Office apps and more.
**13.57**
#bldwin #Build2015 Continuum allows for the best UX in whatever form factor of device you’re using with Windows.
**13.55**
#bldwin #Build2015 Microsoft Edge can run Chrome extensions with little change.
**13.53**
Build2015 #bldwin Project Spartan is now called Microsoft Edge. Utilizing Web extensions and a brand new ‘new tab’ experience.
**13.45**
Build2015 #bldwin New Cortana UX looks amazing.
**13.43**
Build2015 #bldwin The new lockscreen will teach the user about undiscovered features of Windows 10.
**13.39**
Build2015 #bldwin Aero glass is back in Windows 10, so is jump lists.
**13.39**
Build2015 #bldwin Joe Bellfiore is on stage now!
**13.38**
**13.36**
Build2015 #bldwin Run iOS apps through Visual Studio. Terry Myerson notes that this stuff actually works. Candy Crush saga is on Windows phone through these technologies.
**13.33**
Universal apps go fully universal and embrace Java/C++ and Objective-C #Build2015
**13.32**
Build2015 #bldwin iOS and Object-C comes to Window. Microsoft is really eager to close that app gap. Code will compile in Visual Studio, in Windows.
**13.30**
Build2015 #bldwin Is this Microsoft’s strategy to close the app gap?
**13.29**
Windows phone runs android apps!
**13.28**
Build2015 #bldwin Run Android apps with Java/C++ code on Windows.
**13.27**
Build2015 #bldwin Get Win32 and .NET apps through the Windows Store.
**13.24**
Build2015 #bldwin http://aka.ms/vscode Download Visual Studio Code now!
**13.23**
Build2015 #bldwin 4 new ways to build Windows store apps. Web sites as apps with native features.
**13.20**
Universal Apps get a big boost and use one binary #Build2015
**13.19**
Build2015 #bldwin Universal Apps can cover phones, Windows and TVs with one app.
**13.16**
Build2015 #bldwin Does 1 Billion Windows 10 devices equate to 1 Billion Windows App Store users? That’s the real question.
**13.15**
Build2015 #bldwin Windows 10 is a free upgrade in its first year.Goal is to reach 1 billion devices within a year.
**13.15**
**13.14**
Build2015 #bldwin Windows Store for Business allows for mixing public apps with LOB apps.
**13.12**
Build2015 #bldwin Windows is the only ecosystem that let’s you bring your apps across to competing devices.
**13.11**
Terry Myerson is on stage, presenting Windows 10…release date soon? #Build2015
**13.06**
Build2015 Windows 10 is a new generation of Windows.
**13.05**
Build2015 Satya is talking about Windows now, the crowd cheers.
**13.05**
Build2015 Office online has 1.5 Billion users with 470 PB of data, and that is not peanute butter.
**13.04**
There’s going to be an HR inquiry and drug test for all presenters at #Build2015 D:
**13.03**
Build2015 The presenter forgets to disabled notifications and receives Send me the drugs email, pausing things for a moment.
**13.02**
Build2015 That is Office Graph, not Microsoft Graph.
**13.01**
Build2015 Microsoft unifies cloud APIs behind Microsoft Graph to make it really easy to grab data spread across Microsoft services.
**13.00**
Spartan gets screen time at #Build2015.
**12.58**
Build2015 Project Spartan and Sway in action on stage.
**12.54**
Build2015 keynote phase 2: innovations in Office
**12.53**
Build2015 That was a like really long, you must use Azure propaganda speach. Satya is back on stage.
**12.44**
Build2015 Azure Data Lake service can store infinite amounts of data.
**12.38**
Build2015 SQL Data Warehouse answers questions pooling data from SQL, No-sql and hadoop data sources.
**12.36**
Build2015 Operationalize machine learning. Now that’s a sentence I love hearing.
**12.36**
Build2015 Switched the live blog to tweet to @techtalkdc.
**12.34**
Build2015 Querying and updating multiple databases is very easy!
**12.29**
Build2015 Elastic database pool allows for isolating customer data while giving the same benefits of hosting a single database.
**12.28**
Build2015 SQL online now support Transparent Data Encryption, Full text search and elastic pool management.
**12.26**
Build2015 SQL on Azure can elastically scale around the world. Takes away all infrastructure concerns, when it comes to maintaining a cloud enabled data store.
**12.22**
Build2015 Microsoft is aiming to build the best in class tools for every developer. 90% of tech companies are now building SaaS apps.
**12.21**
Visual Studio Code is free, available on every major OS, and will be out today! #Build2015
**12.20**
Build2015 Visual Studio Code will be free. Available to download later today!
**12.19**
Build2015 Azure is the cloud for everyone and Visual Studio Code is the editor for everyone.
**12.19**
Visual Studio for Macs and Linux! #Build2015
**12.18**
Build2015 Visual Studio Code works on Ubuntu as well!
**12.16**
Build2015 Scott Hanselman announces Visual Studio Code for Mac.
**12.14**
Build2015 Full life cycle right within Visual Studio online, from code, task management, cloud deployment to insight analytics.
**12.13**
Scott Hanselman showing off #DevOps capabilities on Azure #Build2015
**12.11**
Build2015 Kanban board built into Visual Studio Online.
**12.10**
Build2015 Visual Studio 2015 can run Android emulator with Apache Cordova.
**12.09**
Build2015 Scott Hanselman talks about ASP.NET 5 with Bower and Npm support.
**12.07**
Build2015 Azure App Service supports VPN for Enterprise connectivity to access on premise services and data.
**12.06**
Build2015 Azure App Service allows for .NET, Node.js, Python with Continous Integration and Delivery support.
**12.04**
.NET Core for Linux and OSX! #Build2015
**12.04**
Build2015 .NET Core RC for Windows and preview for Linux is now available to download.
**12.03**
Build2015 Debug Docker containers from Visual Studio. This is really powerful stuff.
**12.02**
Build2015 Publish Docker containers right within Visual Studio using the Publish command.
**12.01**
Build2015 .NET support in Linux.
**11.58**
Build2015 Mix and match Linux containers with Windows containers. Run any app on any server.
**11.57**
Docker is being supported for both Windows and Linux on Azure #Build2015
**11.57**
Build2015 Run any Dockerized Windows application on any server.
**11.55**
Build2015 Docker is a big part of Azure and Windows. Combined with open sourced .NET. Docker is now 2 years old.
**11.52**
Build2015 Azure offers “full spectrum” cloud. 500+ new Azure services delivered in the last year.
**11.51**
Build2015 19 Azure regions beats AWS and Google combined.
**11.50**
Scott Gu is talking about how the mobility of the experience matters more than the mobility of the device #onewindows #Build2015
**11.50**
Build2015 Scott Guthrie comes on stage to talk about the Intelligent cloud using Azure.
**11.48**
Build2015 Intelligent cloud, Reinvent business and productivity and more personal computing. The three major platform opportunities.
**11.43**
Build2015 Empower every developer seems to be the main message.
**11.40**
Build2015 Microsoft is a developer and platform company first. What happened to cloud first, mobile first?
**11.39**
IoT + windows holographic
**11.39**
Build2015 “This conference is all about challenging, learning creativity.”
**11.36**
Build2015 Satya Nadella takes the stage.
**11.36**
@excellaco @techtalkdc #Build2015 The keynote begins, stay tuned for highlights and key takeaways.
**11.31**
**11.29**
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**11.28**
**11.15**
Build2015 #bldwin We are taking our seats at the keynote. Sahil is taking pictures to post on the live blog.
**10.56**
#bldwin
**10.55**
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**10.52**
bldwin
**00.49**
I wonder what the mystery annoucement from tomorrow is going to be. There are several sessions that are omminously named. #bldwin
**00.39**
Getting ready for tomorrow’s keynote at 8:30am Pacific Time.
**14.17**
bldwin We are done. Follow me for more updates throughout the day.
**14.15**
bldwin. With #Xamarin your Windows Universal apps can work on iOS and Android.
**14.11**
bldwin. Offline support using IndexedDB for Windows apps.
**14.05**
bldwin. Run Java on Azure.
**14.01**
bldwin. Windows Common Core enables consistent experiences across PC, Phone, Tablet and Xbox.
**13.46**
bldwin. GeoFencing on phone with Live Tile updates is a great feature on the upcoming FourSquare app.
**13.43**
bldwin. Microsoft demos remote control coding live on stage.
**13.40**
bldwin. Microsoft is talking up apps on Windows. New Flipboard app for Windows Phone looks fantastic!
**13.32**
bldwin. WebMap v2 transforms old WinForms apps to cloud enabled HTML5 apps, even enabling the creation of mobile apps.
**13.27**
bldwin. Microsoft is trying to reassure everyone that WPF is still a viable app dev platform.
**13.21**
bldwin. @StevenGuggs is on stage now.
**13.11**
bldwin. Azure Portal makes the financial ramifications of scaling up very clear and scales up your memory+cpu with one click.
**13.08**
bldwin. Microsoft goes too far and puts Visual Studio lite in the new Azure Portal
**13.05**
bldwin. New Azure Portal integrates App Insights.
**13.01**
bldwin. New Azure Portal exposes real-time billing data with burn rates and lots of details.
**12.58**
bldwin. The New Azure Portal dashboard is your cloud start screen on steroids.
**12.54**
bldwin. Microsoft announces the .Net Foundation www.dotnetfoundation.org
**12.52**
bldwin. Rosyln works with Mono on MacOS as well.
**12.50**
bldwin. @ahejlsberg Adds French quote support to C# on stage.
**12.48**
bldwin. @Resharper must be forking the Roslyn repo right now.
**12.46**
bldwin. @ahejlsberg Roslyn .Net Compiler Platform is now open sourced live on stage.
**12.44**
bldwin. @ahejlsberg announced preview availability of Roslyn compiler features with live code compilation in Visual Studio.
**12.39**
bldwin. SQL self service restore automatically backups your database by default, so you can roll back to a time of day in the past month.
**12.28**
bldwin. Deploy your @Xamarin app to iPhone simulator from Visual Studio.
**12.20**
bldwin. User Azure mobile services as the backend of your app no matter what platform your app is on.
**12.18**
bldwin. Broadcast notifications to millions of users on Azure.
**12.16**
bldwin. Free SSL certificate on Azure Web Sites.
**12.13**
bldwin. @mkristensen talks about WebJobs on Azure, where even a command line app can be used to run long running jobs on your website.
**12.11**
bldwin. @mkristensen talks about Staging on Azure with one click swap deploy to production.
**12.08**
bldwin. @mkristensen on stage demoing two-way BrowserLink, you can modify your HTML, CSS or JS directly from browser dev tools!
**12.03**
bldwin. Azure AutoScale helps save money by spinning down unneeded servers, and meets demand by automatically adding new servers.
**12.01**
bldwin. Use #nodejs on Azure Web Sites.
**11.58**
bldwin. Puppet and Chef are deeply integrated with Azure. @GettyImages uses them to great effect for their configuration management needs.
**11.47**
bldwin. Enable remote debugging on cloud VM from Visual Studio.
**11.43**
bldwin. Create, manage or destroy VMs on Azure from within Visual Studio. Also use puppet and powershell.
**11.41**
bldwin. NBC’s Sochi online streaming scaled seamlessly from 1 concurrent stream on curling match to 2 million for USA v Canada hockey game on Azure.
**11.32**
bldwin. We starting off with Scott Guthrie talking about mobile-first, cloud-first.
**11.29**
bldwin Just had breakfast with Mads Torgersen, PM for C#, he wouldn’t divulge any secrets on the future of C#. Follow my live blog on TeckTalkDC.com for details. #yam
**14.35**
bldwin. Cortana wraps up the Keynote. Follow me on for more updates @duluca during the day. Check out TechTalkDC.com
**14.23**
bldwin Windows APIs are 90% consistent now across platforms.
**14.22**
bldwin. Satya is doing a Q&A session with developers.
**14.08**
bldwin . New CEO Satya Nadella is on stage.
**14.06**
bldwin. With Nokia SensorCore you don’t need a FitBit or similar devices. Your phone tracks your movement all the time.
**14.01**
bldwin. Cortana will work on all ranges of Windows Phones, not just the latest and greatest.
**13.54**
bldwin. Living images and cinematic video with 4 microphones on Lumia 930.
**13.49**
bldwin. Lumia 930 is announced. Looks fantastic!!
**13.48**
bldwin. Windows Phone 8.1 will be on all WP8 Lumia phones by this summer.
**13.46**
bldwin. Stephen Elop comes on to talk about Nokia.
**13.44**
bldwin. Build attendees get a free Xbox One. And 0 gift card for the Microsoft Store.
**13.42**
bldwin Phones and tablets smaller than 9″ gets free windows as well.
**13.42**
bldwin. Windows for Internet of Things will be free.
**13.33**
bldwin. DirectX 12 will offer same API on PC, Xbox and Phone.
**13.28**
bldwin. @buhain suggests having the Cortana spinner on mini screen on Kinect for Windows.
**13.25**
bldwin. Average user spends 5 hours a day on Xbox, launching apps on Xbox will be huge.
**13.23**
bldwin. Universal apps coming to Xbox!
**13.18**
bldwin. YouTube finally works on Windows Phone 8.1.
**13.15**
bldwin. IE11 coming to phone with Web GL, JS debugging, inline video and tons more. See next tweet for full list.
**13.12**
bldwin. Access full Win32 API from side loaded enterprise WinRT app and bring your legacy code to the 21st century with great touch UX.
**13.07**
bldwin. Complex grammar and natural language recognition ready to be customized for all apps.
**13.02**
bldwin. Full featured office touch first apps will work on WP8 as well.
**12.57**
bldwin. Touch first modern office apps for Windows are in preview.
**12.54**
bldwin. Buy apps once and it’ll work on PC and phone. Same goes for in-app purchases.
**12.49**
bldwin. Convert existing app projects to universal app projects in VS2013 easily. Especially if you are using universal controls.
**12.41**
bldwin. Universal Windows Apps are announced. WinRT on the phone.
**12.39**
bldwin. Afd.sys really stands for ‘Another Freakin’ Driver’
**12.36**
bldwin. Cortana introduces David Treadwell.
**12.35**
bldwin. Windows Store now pre-pinned to taskbar and search for apps you want to install right from the start screen like WP 8 has it. Out April 8th.
**12.31**
bldwin. Windows 8 now has seamless access to the taskbar and app title bar in all apps for mouse users.
**12.28**
bldwin. IE11 now can run legacy corporate sites that were built for ancient browsers.
**12.26**
bldwin. Windows Phone 8.1 out in a month or so.
**12.21**
bldwin. Swype like, word flow, typing now default in Windows Phone.
**12.19**
bldwin . Improved calendar, Wi-Fi Sense, auto sign up to free wi-fi, securely share your wi-fi password, switch to Skype call mid phone convo.
**12.12**
bldwin. New enterprise features for WP8 announced like S/MIME, MDM, VPN, disabled apps on corporate networks.
**12.02**
bldwin. Cortana can search through all phone content as well. No more searching for emails from the email app.
**11.57**
bldwin. Cortana is launching as beta in the US, expanding to the UK and China later on.
**11.50**
bldwin. Cortana is Siri + Google Now but with better speech and transparent settings, also the new default search experience on WP8.
**11.45**
Cortana comes to life. #bldwin
**11.43**
.New lock screen them app will allow for distinct lock screen. Add background image to your tiles.#bldwin
**11.39**
.New lock screen looks awesome. And finally a notification center pull down with quick access to settings.
**11.36**
Joe Belfiore is up talking about Windows Phone 8.1 and Windows 8.1 Update..
**11.33**
Terry Myerson kicks off Build.
**11.12**
Follow me on twitter @duluca (twitter.com/duluca) for pictures and more updates throughout the day.
**01.45**
Tomorrow at 8:30 PST I’ll be live blogging @bldwin Build 2014 Keynote on TechTalkDC http://www.techtalkdc.com/build-2014-keynote-live-blog/ #yam
**16.01**
Trying Live Blogging Plus plug-in for Twitter integration at TechTalkDC.com
**00.43**
Live blogging test for TechTalkDC.com!