Microsoft just finished the first day talks at the annual Build Conference held in San Francisco. Let's see what the company has announced.
Anniversary Update
Starting the event, Microsoft has announced today that there are 270 million devices with Windows 10, and that 500 new devices for the operating system have been designed. He also did not comment on Apple's report on five-year computers, saying it is creating software to cover everyone.
Microsoft's anniversary update will make it available for free this summer at over 4 million devices. New features include fingerprint login, HoloLens, an improved Cortana that supports a pen.
For example, by writing "tomorrow" in a note the Cortana digital assistant will be able to recognize the word and suggest you add it to your calendar.
Universal apps come for all popular services like Instagram, Facebook and Messenger, and according to the company they will give advertisers an opportunity to reach out to the Windows audience. The Windows Store has been visited over 5 billions of times, to date.
For the end, Microsoft announced an update to Visual Studio, the anniversary update of the SDK, and that Ubuntu's Bash comes to Windows.
Microsoft will also offer a Desktop App Converter for Port to Win32 as a modern, easy-to-use application.
Microsoft has shown to developers how the Universal Windows platform will help them create games for Windows 10 and Xbox One.
So it announced the operation of Xbox Dev, so anyone with any retail console can turn it into a developer kit.
Dev Preview is not yet available.
Other Updates? Cortana comes to Xbox, Windows and Xbox will be unified to have a single Store, comes the new DirectX 12 with Graphic APIs to improve GPU performance for gaming.
To give the baton to the HoloLens section, Microsoft announced that the HoloLens developer's edition will begin shipping today. All the code associated with the platform will be available at GitHub.
Microsoft announced the development of AI Bots to be used for educational purposes and presented an AI called Mark and teaches human anatomy.
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After the protests, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella spoke about its use technology in development to enhance human speech.
"He is not the man against the machines, but the man with the machines," he said.
This may mean bots like Cortana and Tay, which obviously need more work.
Microsoft also announced that Cortana, the company's "smart assistant" will work from the lock screen
Nadella said he wants to use services like GroupMe and Skype as "conversation canvases," adding bots and holograms that will bring Skype to a next level.
Of course, this means that a Skype Bot SDK will be available to developers who want to use audio and video experiences. The bots will also come to Skype for Android, iOS and HoloLens will also work outside of the Windows platform.
Continuing the bot reports, Microsoft announced Bot Framework που έρχεται να βοηθήσει στη διαconnection bots with most large applications exchange messages και να τους διδάξει να κατανοήσουν καλύτερα τη φυσική γλώσσα.
Both Bot Framework and Skype Bot are available today. You can also use it Microsoft Knowledge Base to find 22 free APIs to integrate into your product.
