Some Big Announcements from Microsoft Build 2019.

Microsoft developers, lots of announcements on the Fluent Design Everywhere, Microsoft Edge, Making Cortana better, Integrating full Linux Kernel in Windows 10, Azure, Hololens, Minecraft for smartphones and much more.

This is a two days conference!

List of some announcements!

• Microsoft Edge

• Internet Explorer mode will make sure Edge works with legacy web apps and sites from within an Edge.
• A new feature coming called Collection. User can collect, store, share saved information from Edge.
• Edge is also making it easier to control how sites can track you across the web with three levels of privacy controls.
• Microsoft teases its Edge browser for macOS.

• Full Linux Kernel in Windows 10

• Last year, Microsoft announced Linux Sub-System in Windows 10. So user able to run their favorite Linux distro, downloading from Microsoft Store.
• Now Microsoft expanding this with more support for Linux distros.
• Microsoft’s integration of Linux in Windows 10 will interface with userspace installed via the Windows Store. It’s a big shift for Microsoft and marks the first time that the Linux kernel will be included as part of Windows.
• Coming Sexy Windows Terminal

• Current app of Command line is only available in blue and black themes.
• Now Microsoft adding new themes, tabs and emoji support across command line, whatever you using PowerShell, GitBash, Linux’s SubSystem Terminal.
• Shipping this app in coming June!
• New Fluid Framework

• Fluid Framework is designed to let developers build more shared and interactive services and apps on the web.
• Cortana Improvements

• Microsoft’s digital assistant, Cortana, fell behind Google Assistant and Alexa in 2018. The software giant has been slowly repositioning Cortana as a skill that can run anywhere, rather than a rival to Google, Amazon, or Apple’s assistants.
• Azure Announcements

• Microsoft sees its Azure cloud system as “the world’s computer,” and Nadella confirmed that Microsoft now has 54 data center regions around the world.
• Microsoft is pushing Azure to the Edge, and into Azure Kinect, Azure data box, Azure IoT, Azure sphere, and even augmented reality with the Azure-connected Hololens 2 headset.
• Natural Language Transcription

• Azure Speech Service can assign transcriptions to people using their voice signature to track them.
• Hololens

• Showed new upcoming Hololens 2 Demo at Build.
• Gaming

• Minecraft is one of the biggest games out there. Now they bringing this experience on smartphone devices using Argument Reality.

Happy Coding!