BUILD 2014 –TIDAL WAVE of platform and technology announcements
Too excited to write anything – really. The pictures do convey some of it. But its only the TIP of the iceberg. Feeling positively GIDDY, so I am unable to write much. Another TIDAL WAVE of announcements at BUILD 2014.
Day#1
Windows Phone 8.1
CORTANA
Harry Pierson (Operating system Group)
Modernize Enterprise LOB apps – enable touch/tabletization of apps.
Modernize existing LOB apps (touch enable them) by running parts in separate app-broker process outside the appContainer
Cross platform Applications
Make your single app work across many platforms, thereby allowing developers to target the largest deployed device footprint.
1. Phone
2. PC
3. Tablet and
4. XBOX
Inline Video Playback support
Windows Library for JavaScript (WinJS)
WinJS – Goes Cross Platform
Support for other popular platforms
Sharing of the Roadmap
New Customizable Start Screen plus max, min, and close button on Modern apps
New Windows Pricing Strategy
Windows on IOT will be ZERO dollars
Windows on less than 9” devices is free
Strong Beliefs
NUI is great
Gestures, voice, apps of the future will interact with humans using NUIS
IOT is true
Screens get smaller, devices get smaller, cloud gets bigger
Day#2
Capture Images of VMs with Multiple storage disks and resuse
Additional 3rd party VM Management Tool for scalable management of VMs
DEVs and VMs
Developers will be able to seamlessly do a lot of DEV, TEST and DEPLOY with VMs, including debugging an remote application, from their desktop
.NET Foundation and a ton of OSS Contributions
Azure Resource Manager – Preview
