Microsoft BUILD Conference Keynote Live Blog

11:31AM PDT - we'll have more coming soon from BUILD

11:30AM PDT - sorry for the wifi issues

11:30AM PDT - and that's a wrap

11:30AM PDT - "empower every developer"

11:30AM PDT - "moving people from needing Windows, to choosing Windows, to loving Windows"

11:29AM PDT - Satya back on stage to wrap up

11:28AM PDT - Microsoft brought hundreds of Hololens to let attendees get a chance to check it out

11:26AM PDT - hololens can communicate objects in the room to help the robot navigate a room

11:25AM PDT - the robot that came out interacts directly with hololens

11:24AM PDT - now a demo of a maker kit with Raspberry Pi and Hololens

11:23AM PDT - ok I guess we don't get to learn much about the inside

11:22AM PDT - all-in-one device, no tether, no markers, no PC or phone required for operation

11:21AM PDT - now we get to learn more about the inside of hololens

11:18AM PDT - because it is augmented reality and not virtual reality it is easier to keep a connection with people during training

11:16AM PDT - now demoing hololens as a use case to help medical education

11:15AM PDT - video over. Architecture seems like a great fit for Hololens

11:13AM PDT - video now to show how Hololens has helped a construction firm

11:11AM PDT - "Follow Me" command unpins his video player from the wall and it comes with him

11:09AM PDT - showing the Holographic start menu and opening Skype, pinning Skype to the wall

11:08AM PDT - they have a custom camera to show us a demo of Hololens here

11:07AM PDT - unveiling the Windows Holographic Platform

11:05AM PDT - less than 100 days since Hololens was announced, and he will give some more info on how to put apps into Hololens

11:05AM PDT - Alex Kipman is now on stage

11:04AM PDT - for many people the phone is the primary computing interface so this is a nice way to expand that

11:03AM PDT - "any screen can be your PC"

11:03AM PDT - and at the same time, the phone display can still be used

11:02AM PDT - outlook mail client from the phone becomes the full version for the PC

11:01AM PDT - demoing Powerpoint, and once hooked to the display it will be the larger tablet version of the app

11:00AM PDT - phone will work with HDMI monitors and bluetooth keyboard and mouse support

11:00AM PDT - interesting play, and only will be on new hardware

10:59AM PDT - oohh Continuum is coming to the phone

10:58AM PDT - Maps is the demo for Continuum and it adjusts dynamically based on screen size and orientation

10:57AM PDT - showing off the task switcher button on the task bar

10:56AM PDT - start screen has been simplified

10:56AM PDT - showing touch mode on an 8" tablet

10:56AM PDT - Continuum lets devices be flexible, like the Surface Pro 3 for instance

10:55AM PDT - moving on from Edge to Continuum

10:54AM PDT - almost the same code as what Chrome uses because of HTML standards

10:53AM PDT - Edge will have extensions support, Joe is going to demo on Reddit

10:53AM PDT - New Tab page looks great

10:50AM PDT - Edge has been what the backend of Spartan has been using for months

10:50AM PDT - Microsoft Edge is the new browser name

10:49AM PDT - Project Spartan... finally going to hear the name

10:48AM PDT - in this case, send a message but without opening the app at all

10:48AM PDT - showing how Cortana can execute commands too

10:47AM PDT - showing Hey Cortana to launch apps like Viber in this case

10:46AM PDT - Cortana can help promote apps too if you use it to launch existing apps, and it will promote ones that may interest you

10:45AM PDT - Cortana shown with some new UI features

10:44AM PDT - this is optional, but helps with app discovery

10:42AM PDT - Apps like Cortana can be put on the lock screen to let people know about them and help discovery

10:42AM PDT - lock screen uses Windows Insights and you can train it to the images you like

10:41AM PDT - Start Menu just keeps evolving with lots of tweaks

10:40AM PDT - lots of Windows 7 coming back into Windows 10 like Glass and Jump Lists

10:37AM PDT - Joe Belfiore is now on stage

10:37AM PDT - BUILD giveaway is the HP Spectre. Nice machine

10:36AM PDT - so not coming soon but already here

10:36AM PDT - wow this is actually already been used for Candy Crush which has been in the store for a while now

10:34AM PDT - import Objective C right into Visual Studio with full text highlighting

10:33AM PDT - you can compile code from iOS and have it run on Windows

10:32AM PDT - Objective C support is the last tech

10:32AM PDT - wow

10:32AM PDT - demo was not 100% smooth but the end result was impressive

10:31AM PDT - app reuses existing code but can runs in a security container

10:29AM PDT - demo is Choice Hotel app

10:29AM PDT - Windows will have an Android subsystem

10:28AM PDT - Third tech: Android Java/C++ integration

10:28AM PDT - Adobe will be bringing Photoshop elements and Premier Elements to the Windows Store later this year

10:27AM PDT - Windows Store now leverages App-V to sandbox apps

10:26AM PDT - showing Adobe Photoshop Elements in the Windows Store

10:26AM PDT - Brett: This is super important to move existing apps into the store

10:25AM PDT - the next tech for moving to the Windows Store is .NET and Win32 application support

10:24AM PDT - they can then use the in-app purchases of the Windows Store but in their web app

10:24AM PDT - server hosted code can tell if the app is running in a web frame or in an app

10:23AM PDT - demo will use 22tracks website

10:23AM PDT - you can reuse current server hosted tools and have the website send notifications and live tiles

10:22AM PDT - Web is the first

10:22AM PDT - announcing four new ways to bring existing code to the Windows Store

10:22AM PDT - Windows Store: Universal Windows Platform

10:19AM PDT - shown on Xbox too

10:18AM PDT - state is shared in the cloud so that opening the app in multiple locations can bring you to the exact same place in the app

10:17AM PDT - new universal app works on both with a single codebase

10:17AM PDT - showing USA Today and how they currently have a codebase for phone and a codebase for Windows

10:16AM PDT - they want Windows 10 on 1 billion devices in the next 2-3 years

10:15AM PDT - they know they need Windows 10 broadly adopted and quickly

10:14AM PDT - same experience for end users, and allows business payment methods

10:14AM PDT - introducing the Windows store for business today

10:13AM PDT - 90 mobile operators

10:13AM PDT - Carrier billing for all Windows devices announced today

10:12AM PDT - easy and fast to install and uninstall

10:12AM PDT - apps that come from the windows store come with promises to the end user

10:12AM PDT - 40% of searches in the store are the same right now across Windows and Phone

10:11AM PDT - a single binary that can run on all of these devices

10:11AM PDT - targeting the broadest device range ever

10:10AM PDT - our goal is to make Windows 10 the most attractive developer platform ever

10:10AM PDT - Terry Myerson just came on stage

10:08AM PDT - Video time

10:07AM PDT - this is what they need to really nail with Windows 10

10:07AM PDT - one unified store

10:07AM PDT - Unified platform from Raspberry Pi to Hololens

10:07AM PDT - wifi just died again whoops

10:06AM PDT - Windows built for an era of more personal computing

10:05AM PDT - "It's now time to talk about Windows"

10:05AM PDT - They really want Office to be a true platform

10:04AM PDT - Also launching a Web SDK for Skype

10:03AM PDT - Delve can leverage this and show data from many sources

10:02AM PDT - demoing Office being used for graphing and getting insights from your users and data

09:59AM PDT - Uber knows where you are from the app and where you need to be from your Outlook calendar

09:58AM PDT - MS is partnering with Uber for ride reminders in Outlook calendar

09:58AM PDT - lets you see who you are talking to when dealing with email

09:57AM PDT - Outlook shown with LinkedIn and Salesforce integration

09:56AM PDT - Powerpoint being demoed with PicHit.me service

09:55AM PDT - and the add-on works on all platforms including iPad, Office Online and traditional Office

09:55AM PDT - Excel with SAP integration

09:55AM PDT - Office 16 on Windows shown with DocuSign integrated with HTML5 and Javascript

09:54AM PDT - Rob Lefferts from the Office team is on stage to demo

09:54AM PDT - combine users, data, and intelligence together

09:53AM PDT - Transforming Office into a platform

09:53AM PDT - Azure is done now, moving on to Office

09:50AM PDT - HDInsight is the backbone of their service

09:50AM PDT - Azure allowed us to focus on our goal

09:50AM PDT - they want to have a personal app that knows what you want to give based on what you care about

09:48AM PDT - JustGiving wants to use analytics to solve world issues

09:47AM PDT - Mike Bugembe from JustGiving is now on stage to discuss how they use Azure analytics

09:45AM PDT - Data Lake uses the Hadoop HDFS API

09:45AM PDT - enterprise security

09:45AM PDT - run analytic jobs against the data

09:44AM PDT - store and manage infinite data in the original form

09:44AM PDT - New Azure Data Lake service

09:43AM PDT - moving on to IoT now with Azure

09:42AM PDT - comparing Azure Data warehousing to AWS Redshift

09:40AM PDT - Data Warehousing service lets you do machine learning from many sources

09:37AM PDT - another video showing Azure doing analytics

09:36AM PDT - Two new Azure analytic services SQL Data Warehouse

09:35AM PDT - now discussing Analytics

09:34AM PDT - demo over. Pretty impressive and really simplifies DB work

09:33AM PDT - Elastic jobs let you submit one T-SQL query to all of the databases for maintenance or updates

09:32AM PDT - Elastic Database Query will be previewed in a few weeks to allow simple queries to all of the databases in the pool

09:31AM PDT - Azure will dynamically change the resources to save money on overprovisioning

09:30AM PDT - you can specify the minimum and maximum performance for each database

09:30AM PDT - Microsoft has machine learning to recommend which databases are put into the pool

09:29AM PDT - Lara Rubbbelke is on stage to demo

09:29AM PDT - Elastic Database Pool enables isolated databases but aggregates the capacity to smooth peaks

09:28AM PDT - new SQL capabilities: Transparent Data Encryption, Full text search, and Elastic Database pool

09:26AM PDT - Esri talking about ArcGIS SaaS

09:26AM PDT - now a video

09:26AM PDT - up to 160,000 SQL instances are created and dropped per day for testing and development

09:25AM PDT - SQL can be provisioned in seconds and distribute it around the world with automatic failover and geo distribution

09:25AM PDT - Azure data services now. SQL DB is one of their most popular services on Azure

09:24AM PDT - Windows and Linux versions will be available this week

09:23AM PDT - Azure Service Fabric is a High-control distributed computing framework

09:23AM PDT - new Azure techs now

09:22AM PDT - Azure powers all of their apps and does the heavy lifting for forecasts

09:22AM PDT - AccuWeather used to be AWS and has switched to Azure

09:22AM PDT - 90% of tech companies are building SaaS apps

09:21AM PDT - Really pushing how their tools are the ones they want people to use on all platforms

09:20AM PDT - Visual Studio Code is going to be Free and available later today!

09:19AM PDT - This is not the full Visual Studio but still this is a big step for the company

09:18AM PDT - and also on Ubuntu...

09:17AM PDT - now showing Visual Studio Code is now on the Mac

09:15AM PDT - now demoing the Logic app part

09:12AM PDT - Visual Studio online lets you see insights into the app and how it is performing and to let you auto-scale based on parameters

09:11AM PDT - demoing the Android emulator built into Visual Studio which runs Android on Hyper-V

09:10AM PDT - Showing how the Visual Studio tools let him manage the website, Windows app, phone app

09:09AM PDT - he uploaded a 3D model and it was submitted to an order backend on Azure

09:09AM PDT - sample is a 3D printer service

09:07AM PDT - Scott Hanselman is now coming on stage to demo Azure App Services

09:07AM PDT - App Service lets you do an Enterprise VPN

09:07AM PDT - apps can scale up the number of instances to respond to load, and remove instances when load goes down

09:06AM PDT - Azure App Service now is being discussed

09:05AM PDT - Azure being discussed in how it can really help developers

09:04AM PDT - now he's demoing how to see the debugging .net on Linus with Visual Studio

09:04AM PDT - my apologies

09:03AM PDT - Wi-Fi is going down again

09:02AM PDT - love Mark's Docker shirt

09:01AM PDT - and he can publish directly to it from Visual Studio

09:01AM PDT - now that they have .net on Linux he is going to show how his Docker app can also run on that OS

09:01AM PDT - and his app is now running in Docker

09:00AM PDT - packed his asp.net into Docker and now is going to run it

08:59AM PDT - has a minecraft server running in Docker

08:58AM PDT - he is discussing asp.net running docker

08:58AM PDT - Mark Russinovich is now on stage

08:58AM PDT - mix and match Windows and Linux dockers for multi part apps

08:57AM PDT - Microsoft has really embraced Docker on not just Linux but Windows as well

08:57AM PDT - Met Microsoft to let Docker run on Linux Azure services

08:56AM PDT - take any app and its dependencies and let it run on any server

08:55AM PDT - Docker is discussing how they can assist developers

08:55AM PDT - seems like such a big tech already

08:55AM PDT - Docker is only two years old wow

08:55AM PDT - Ben Golub who is the CEO of Docker is now on stage

08:54AM PDT - core .NET tech is now open source

08:54AM PDT - Open Source is more broadly used and Docker is now a big part of Azure

08:53AM PDT - Azure lets you re-use the skills you already have

08:52AM PDT - 1.4 million SQL databases in Azure

08:52AM PDT - more than 90,000 new Azure customer subs per month

08:52AM PDT - they have delivered more than 500 new Azure services in the last 12 months

08:51AM PDT - they offer on prem, hybrid, or cloud only models which I think is unique to the landscape

08:51AM PDT - Azure lets you target the Full Spectrum of cloud

08:51AM PDT - he is the EVP of Cloud and Enterprise (Azure)

08:49AM PDT - now Scott Guthrie is coming on stage to talk about cloud

08:49AM PDT - the experience matters

08:49AM PDT - and Windows 10 represents a new generation of Windows built in an era of more personal computing

08:48AM PDT - Graphing data is going to be another key

08:48AM PDT - They want every developer on every platform to be able to use their cloud services

08:48AM PDT - Build the intelligent cloud

08:47AM PDT - the first is the cloud infrastructure

08:47AM PDT - Microsoft wants to drive platform innovation with three platforms

08:47AM PDT - that's a great use for the pen which i think is going to get even more useful in Windows 10

08:46AM PDT - and now the music he created with the pen is being played

08:45AM PDT - all being done on Surface

08:45AM PDT - the app transforms the music bars

08:44AM PDT - handwriting recognition for music is being shown

08:43AM PDT - as a musician he's comparing developing to creating music

08:43AM PDT - David William Hearn

08:43AM PDT - Going to talk to a developer now

08:42AM PDT - He's discussing how he had talked to developers all over the world

08:40AM PDT - Talking about empowering developers

08:40AM PDT - Satya Nadella just came on stage

08:39AM PDT - Satya is talking about Microsoft's recent 40 year anniversary

08:39AM PDT - sorry for the delay the Wi-Fi is struggling

08:38AM PDT - Satya Nadella has taken the stage.