Windows 10 – news from Build 2016
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Satya Nadella introduced improvements in Corte and announced the pre-release versions of the new services available in the cloud and toolkits designed in order to help you better understand the world around us and create intelligent robots. On the other hand Myerson announced a new update to Windows 10 that appear year after the public release of this operating system. Also announced significant improvements for consumers and developers working on the Universal Platform Windows.
– As an industry, we are on the verge of a new reality, which combines the power of a natural human language with advanced computer technology – says Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft – in Microsoft define this phenomenon as “Conversation as a platform.” It increases the potential of Microsoft Azure, Office 365 and Windows platforms, providing more options for developers around the world – adds CEO of Microsoft.
– Windows 10 is already installed on 270 million devices. This significant update will come in more natural interactions with devices operating on Windows 10, when you interact with the world around us: with our pen, identity and voice – said Terry Myerson – We are fully committed to Windows to become the most productive environment for all developers, giving access to new opportunities in the context of Universal Windows platforms and brand new tools that enable the creation of applications for Windows 10 via each platform – adds Myerson.
Cortana Intelligence Suite
package Cortana intelligence, formerly known as Cortana Analytics is driven through innovative research in the areas of Big Data, machine learning, perception, analysis and intelligence robots. The package created on the platform Azure developers and companies can use to create complete solutions, including applications that will be able to learn our world and robots and agents who are able to interact with people in a personalized and intelligent way.
On Wednesday, Microsoft announced the introduction of additional features to the package Cortana Intelligence Suite, pre-release. The first is Microsoft Cognitive Services, which is a set of intelligent application programming interfaces that allow systems to see, hear, speak, understand and interpret our needs through natural methods of communication. The second is Microsoft Bot Framework, which can be used by programmers using any programming language for constructing smart robots, able to talk with customers in natural language through a variety of platforms, m.in .: SMS, Slack, Twitter, telegram, web browsers and others.
Microsoft also demonstrated how developers can take advantage of these services in order to change not only the business reality, but also the everyday life of people. “Seeing AI” – is an application that is currently in the testing phase. Its aim is to show how these new possibilities in the field of IT will help people who have low vision and blind people better understand the world around them. Microsoft today also introduced the Skype Bot Platform, including software development kit (SKD), intelligent application programming interfaces (APIs), and systems to streamline workflow (Workflow). All within the framework of the all-new Skype Bot Portal. With this platform, developers can build robots that use all forms of communication available through Skype, including: text, voice, video, and messages containing interactive 3D characters. Customers can start using the platform Skype Bots downloading the latest version of Skype for Windows, Android or iOS. Through Skype Bot Platform developers can start building Skype Bots today, so that they reach the millions of Skype users.
Innovation in Windows:
The operating system Windows 10 was designed to allow the use of a computer in a more personalized way, providing users with a more natural and inspiring greater confidence in the experience on any device they use. With features such as Cortana and Windows Hello, Windows 10 started to provide experience in line with this vision. Today more than 270 million active devices use Windows 10. This is the best “beginning” in the history of Windows. The results, achieved 145 percent. faster than Windows 7. In addition, consumers spend more time using Windows 10 than ever before: it is already more than 75 billion hours of the day to the public this system. This fast-growing base of causes great interest of developers who provide completely new, universal applications such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Uber, King, Disney, Starbucks, and many others. Shop Windows has been already more than 5 billion visits where Windows users discover entirely new applications for Windows 10, including more than 1 000 serving Cortana.
During Wednesday’s Build conference, Microsoft shared the next chapter of his vision for personal computing. As part of a completely new, “anniversary” 10 Windows updates, new features will be available for Windows Ink, Cortana, Windows Hello and dedicated industry giant gaming. Windows Ink is a completely new experience, located on the tip of the digital pen: you can write on the device in exactly the same way in which we write on paper, creating sticky notes, drawing on the blackboard and freely sharing their thoughts analog in a digital world. Completely new features available on the platform Cortana and provide proactive advice from Cort during the day and allow a conversation with Cort, even without the need to log in when the device is locked. In turn, the new features of Windows Hello allow you to use the security offered by Windows 10 on multiple devices and through Microsoft Edge, so that the user can log on to their devices using only their identity. These are just a few of the many features that will appear this summer, when “Anniversary” Windows update will become widely available.
Microsoft has released the Microsoft HoloLens Development Edition, the first moving experience Windows on a plane holograms and give developers a chance to help in the future of holographic computers. Microsoft called customers from numerous industries who already benefit from HoloLens, among them Case Western Reserve University and NASA. Through Universal Windows platforms (UWP) developers can create new, expanded reality, in which there are holograms.
For over thirty years, Windows is an open environment that happily accepts contributions from the partners involved in the creation of hardware and and software developers around the world. Universal Platform Windows (UWP) is an extension of this philosophy – combines the historical windows open approach with the best modern application platform. On Wednesday, also presented new opportunities Universal Windows platforms (UWP) m.in .: full access to proactive intelligence Cortana and the new SDK for Windows 10, which includes a completely new Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) and tools such as Windows and Windows Hello Ink that will enable the integration of the latest innovations available in the Windows 10 applications. The programming kit With Xbox, every Xbox One can function as a set of programming. This allows each user sitting in the living room can become a programmer.
Microsoft also introduced a completely new tools that will allow to create applications for Windows 10 via each platform:
Developers including American Express, BBC Sport, Yahoo Mail, Zully, and many others have achieved great success thanks to web applications hosted on Windows 10. The Windows 10 will be able to handle natively Bash, giving users access to the Windows file system and tools from the world of interfaces from the command line .
Microsoft also shared his new converter desktop applications within the project Centanial. It allows developers to easily transfer 16 million applications Win32 and .Net for Windows Universal Platform (UWP). With Universal Platform Windows programmers can enhance the capabilities of their applications and distribute them through the Windows Store.
Xamarin will help developers as part of the .NET platform sharing common code applications on Windows, iOS, and Android experience and deliver fully dedicated to each of these platforms.
If you want to try out innovative features that will be available in the anniversary upgrade Windows 10, join the Windows Insider and install the latest version. From today, developers who participate in the Windows Insider have access to pre-release version of the software development kit (SDK) Windows Anniversary where they can learn new functions.