The presentation of Microsoft began with a speech by the head of the company, Satya Nadella, who called himself an optimist who believes that technology can become a driver of economic growth around the world. They were also told a lot about cloud technologies and their extraordinary importance. Since the event was intended for developers, the main announcements concerned Windows software enhancements. It should be noted that during the presentation, smartphones, which the company may be working on, did not receive attention.
The illustrated reportage from the presentation was conducted by The Verge. During the presentation, it was also said that more than 270 million computers are already running Windows 10. Windows Anniversary Update will be available in the summer.
The Notes application, like Cortana, will determine where and when the reminder is set. After all, 72% of people still use pens and paper and do it for an hour a day or more. Ink is a kind of platform. At the center of the new Windows Ink technology is a new view of the familiar pen.
For example, on maps, the user can simply draw a line between two points to find out the route. It will be possible to make a route this way even in the mountains. In Adobe Illustrator, you can also use new technology. In other words, in many applications the user will be able to write, draw and draw lines by hand the way he is used to with a regular pen.
Then it's time to talk about the universal platform for Windows. For more than 30 years, Windows has been an open platform for hardware and software development partners. With the advent of the Universal Windows platform, nothing changes. Facebook, Instagram, and Messenger will be available soon on the Windows Store.
The company wants developers to easily integrate Ink technology into their applications. Therefore, Microsoft offers developers a simple way to provide support for this technology - just a few lines of code.
Cortana for Android phones will become an assistant to users. Surprisingly, in almost two hours of presentation and so little, almost nothing was said about Windows Phone. However, closer to the end of the presentation, Lilian Rincon from the Skype team remembered him, demonstrating the capabilities of this popular communication application on it.
Visual Studio 2016 Update 2 is also coming out today. In addition, Web applications will be supported in the Windows Store. "Bash shell" will also be supported by Windows. The code for Ubuntu Linux will launch on Windows through the partnership of the software giant with Canonical. Bash (Bourne Again Shell) is a Linux command line used in various ways. Thus, a command line familiar to Linux and OS X users comes in Windows.
Microsoft also created a converter to convert older desktop applications to versions compatible with the Universal platform. The converter converts the .exe or .msi installation file into a new application.
Windows will become more attractive to those developers who create their applications for various platforms. The Android emulator can be launched with the Windows emulator.
Xbox project manager Phil Spencer noted that the universal Windows platform allows developers to create games that will run on all devices running Windows 10. Microsoft has transformed Steam of Age of Empires II HD into a modern application. This will allow you to transfer to the Windows Store many old, but loved by users of the game. Xbox will be able to work in developer mode, thus becoming a tool for the programmer, and not just the game console.
With the Windows 10 2016 update, Cortana will finally be able to come to the Xbox One. Additionally, update options will be announced at E3 in June 2016.
HoloLens will become the exclusive technology for Windows 10. Japan Airlines, VW, Saab, Volvo, Audi, NASA, Autodesk, Lowe and others are creating applications for this innovative platform. The technology can be used, including in students studying anatomy, including brain anatomy, directly in the classroom.
NASA uses this technology to create an application to support astronauts and engineers at the space station. HoloLens kits will begin shipping on the day of the presentation.
Returning to the stage, Satya Nadella was pleased that computers were made possible to teach the human language to such an extent that communication with them became clear. It is important that the user interacts with computer equipment in a common language, and not in a special computer language. Microsoft wants to create digital assistants by making ordinary human language a new user interface.
Bots will become new applications, and digital assistants will become new meta-applications or new browsers. This is initially created for Windows, but not limited to Windows.
Of course, the announcements of this presentation are more interesting for professionals, but it is important for ordinary users to know how one of the most innovative companies in the world sees the further development of digital technologies.
Cortana answers 1 million voice questions per day. Cortana on the lock screen will enter the Windows 10 Anniversary Update.
A new version of Outlook will also appear in Windows 10. There, probably, the calendar and Cortana will be integrated. You can, for example, ask her to send a fragment of a PowerPoint presentation that the user worked on last night. After all, Cortana knows what the user is working on at a specific time.
Skype is used by three hundred million users every month. 3 billion voice calls are made per day. Skype will become much more attractive if you integrate bots, animation, videos and holograms into it.
Cortana will highlight key points from Skype messages. Business users can use the bots that interact with the user and Cortana, for example, to book hotel rooms. Cortana will even be able to chat with friends of users instead.
Developers will be able to create bots. Users will be able to access them starting from the day of the presentation. And this is just the beginning - the intelligent virtual communications capabilities will appear in Skype for HoloLens.
Microsoft considers bots to be the future of applications and services. Cortana will be the foundation of the new approach as much as .NET was. The “Microsoft bot” framework for developers is what developers need in order for the bots they create to be able to communicate.
All proposed bot codes can be added to Slack or Skype. Maybe, over time, the bot will be able to order pizza in the office. Bots also support SMS, which is important for emerging markets and all mobile devices.
What lies at the basis of the "mind" of bots? This was told by Lili Cheng (Lili Cheng). There is a certain set of instructions, as well as a user interface that reads them. Thus, if a user, for example, asks to order pizza using colloquial speech far from the literary language, then the bot will understand what it is about, because it uses a dictionary of synonyms. The bot is also capable of learning.
Microsoft's cognitive services were also talked about. For developers in this direction prepared 22 API. It's about learning machine APIs that developers can simply embed in their applications. The system of converting speech into text will be able to understand what the child is saying, and convert it into a meaningful text.
Applications can determine not only faces, but also gender, age and emotions.
One of the Microsoft employees, Sahib, lost his sight at the age of seven, but thanks to the company's engineers, the phone application is able to detect objects around a person.
It should be noted that recently everyone has access to the Windows 10 update history. New processors will only support the new Microsoft operating system. The transition to Windows 10 will sooner or later become inevitable for all users, except for those, of course, who prefer OS X or Linux.
Which of the Microsoft presentation announcements seems the most interesting and promising?
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