Find my notes on Microsoft 2020 Build – virtual event, held on 19,20 & 21st May 2020.
Build Home – https://mybuild.microsoft.com/
Microsoft 365
- Fluid Framework – A new framework to build distributed web applications. (in preview) [Link]
- Project Cortex – Classify organization content using AI to topics. Knowledge base to improve employees’ organizational intelligence and productivity (in preview). Microsoft Graph based APIs will be available.[Link]
- Microsoft Lists – Will have templates for quick lists, color formatting, and the ability to create alerts, track issues, assets, routines, contacts, and inventory for companies [Link]
- Office Scripting [Link]
- Outlook – Compose email messages with text prediction
- Excel – New features – new capabilities, contextual experiences [Link]
- Misc. – Office Add-In debugger Extension for VS Code
Teams
- Teams to get customizable templates
- Easily create Chatbots
- Power Platform Integration
- Developers can build and publish Teams app using Visual Studio and VS Code
- Easy integration of custom apps and Power Apps using single click
- Share Power BI reports in Teams
- Schedule virtual appoints in Teams
- Broadcast events and create studio productions from virtual stage
Reference: [Link]
Power Platform
- Trying to bring in low-code RPA into Power Automate with the acquisition of Softomotive [Link]
- New “Add to Teams” experience
Azure
- Azure Synapse Link
- Bringing database services and analytics together in real time [Link]
- Azure ML
- New “responsible machine learning” tools in AML. This will help developers understand, protect and control their models throughout the machine learning lifecycle. [Link][Link]
- AI Supercomputer
- New infrastructure available in Azure to train extremely large AI models [Link]
- Azure Arc & Azure Stack Hub (updates)
- Azure Arc – For customers who want to simplify complex and distributed environments across on-premises, edge and multicloud, Azure Arc enables deployment of Azure services anywhere and extends Azure management to any infrastructure [Link]
- Azure Stack Hub – Azure Stack Hub broadens Azure to let you run apps in an on-premises environment and deliver Azure services in your datacenter [Link]
- Azure SQL Edge (in preview)
- Combines new capabilities such as data streaming and time series with in-database machine learning and graph features [Link]
- Azure Quantum
- One-stop-shop in Azure that gives you the freedom to create your own path to scalable quantum computing. [Link]
Developers
- Visual Studio Codespaces (formerly Visual Studio Online) [Link]
- Cloud-hosted, managed dev environments accessible from anywhere
- Project Reunion
- Unifying app development across the billion windows 10 devices [Link]
- Breaking the barrier between Win32 and UWP APIs.
- WSL / Windows Subsystem for Linux [Link]
- Support for Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 distros
- Run all Linux apps in WSL
- GPU support
- .NET
- C# 9 – preview is available [Link]
- Blazor
- WebAssembly is out of preview
- Microsoft Graph Services
- productivity-focused services powered by Microsoft 365 and Azure, that are designed specifically for developers who are building high-value applications [Link]
- Windows Package Manager
- Native Package Manager for Windows 10 (in preview) [Link]
Certifications
- Azure IoT Developer Specialty Certification
Misc.
- Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare
- Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare brings together trusted and integrated
capabilities for customers and partners that enrich patient engagement and
connects health teams to help improve collaboration, decision-making, and
operational efficiencies [Link] - New Microsoft Edge
