 Here day one of the Microsoft event. We're about to get started on the keynote for the Microsoft Kinect 2017 Kind of excited. I actually don't know all the topics are going to cover so I'm kind of excited to learn about that and You know, we have some interviews lined up It's kind of strange being here because we're here to do our podcast And we don't have that many people booked because apparently as I'm understanding they don't commit to the last minute So we have like a list of people that are here and we just kind of have to grab one drag winner booth Which we haven't figured out where our booth is yet I think we find that out after the keynote They have some type of podcast booth set up for us, which is pretty cool. So I'm excited about that and well, we'll go from here So the Microsoft Kinect 2017 was really interesting. It's not just a big push for Azure It's also interesting during the entire talk how they didn't really talk much about Microsoft They didn't talk about operating systems in any measure Of course, this is a developer focus conference But it was really about any platform anywhere any language and all the things you can run on top of Azure So it was a really cool inside look at some of the new things coming out and some of the things that now are really similar availability So there was a lot of artificial intelligence and bringing AI everywhere. One of the cool demos They did was identifying apples and pineapples. I really wish they would have just followed the Silicon Valley not hot dog thing But you know, we won't digress I feel as though it was a little bit of a nod to that but one of the advantages they showed was the actual ability to do this offline So you could actually design an app design a mobile app that does some type of recognition That needs the back end But then you can also have an option to push that so it has offline availability So certain functionalities will still work that is based on the Microsoft Cognitive Services and identifying services This is really interesting use of this So that was the AI stuff and of course the phone stuff was outstanding was Xamarin which is code once deploy everywhere If you're not familiar with Xamarin Microsoft acquire the company I think it's been a year maybe two years ago and with it. They got Miguel de carza Amazing open source developer and he's now working for Microsoft and developing all this amazing open platform Things I know it's so weird to think that Microsoft's doing open platform stuff, but they are so That was very cool to watch because they could deploy apps and sync up in real time develop your app and see how it looks on Different phones and then different systems and on different platforms Android iOS and the older models of these phones Which is really cool because now you didn't have to run around loading the app It had to load testing in their system as part of the dev platform when you're using Xamarin So this is just fascinating stuff to me It really can bring you from idea to product very very quickly without a whole lot of testing in between So some of the other dev highlights were the visual studio code live editing Now this is really neat because I've been using google docs for a long time And yes, I'm going to bring up google docs as it immediately what made me think of here But this is a really cool use case So a lot of times you are working on code and you need help with a section of code The visual studio live editing which is not available yet, but you can sign up for a preview But it's they're rolling it out They didn't give much insight into the back end of technology behind it But what they're doing is allowing you to do real-time editing and collaboration with another person At the same time at the same code looking at the same things now I'm like I said, I bring this up because google docs and we'll do this for a while and Applying this to code makes collaboration very interesting Because you know a lot of times you just want to look over your shoulder or you share a snippet And you go back and forth and email and you post it a stack exchange Now you can invite someone to especially if you're collaborating with them on a common project You can collaborate directly with them in real time and do all the editing work Real time they see what you see not a screen sharing but actually editing the code at the same time And if you've used google docs this feature is not too surprising to you But it's not been applied that i'm aware of to code in real time So that's a really cool thing that they looked at Another announcement was microsoft joining the maria db foundation as a platinum sponsor In short to throw in money at it and the this is the fork of my sequel since my sequel They were worried I think of since sun oracle got them that it may not be so they forked it to maria db Which have been told is a very good system. I don't personally use this not really a developer But I love that they're throwing money at the open source or not changing anything about it They're just saying we're we're going to sponsor it I know some of you people like they're going to Extinguish open source they're trying to embrace it then extinguish them like once you put all this on a gpl And you're throwing money at developers and just say go do what you do microsoft is fundamentally shifting how they work as a company Which is why all this is occurring They're moving towards everything should be on azure. We can make money on All the hosting of this because you got to run your compute time somewhere And they really are a tools company is how they think of themselves and are really bringing that To the forefront because as a tools company you build all the great tools People will come use your tools and of course if you're the one who made the tools You're most likely to use azure to host the back end of this So it's kind of a complete cycle and it's the way that they've re strategically position themselves Also, we won open source one End of story here. I mean there's still a ways to go microsoft is not completely open But it may not make sense for them to open things I mean we may make sense to us people who are advocates of open source software But you know, don't ask me if windows 10 is going to be open source. It's not matter of fact I think we're seeing the sunset of a lot of the desktop operating systems are just going to become less relevant Especially windows 10 no one's thrilled with it That's no enthusiasm around that product. It's something that we use out of necessary evils But as things go to cloud enabled apps the operating system becomes less relevant And I think microsoft realizes they're going to make money on it until they can't and their operating system becomes less relevant It's all going to be about how you host it in the cloud. So it's a strategic position I see very good from them and then releasing these tools is what will make them survivable as a company And keeping things open. They realize developers really like open source Sorry microsoft you were wrong for a long time Steve balmer was right about it being a cancer because we have watched it destroy The closed source concepts and bring things more open Which of course as we bring things more open and share more we progress humankind further That's my whole open source philosophy in short and the last thing I'm talking about is the event grid system That was the final little piece that was a not part of the keynote directly But part of something that cori sanders Demoed and what the event grid is is they've created a series of events and they plan to create more of them And they're event driven instances So you can create say an event grid watch for a tweet And then you can say a based on that tweet spin up these functions to deal with what was tweeted And that's a real basic use of it, but you can see the global implications of this So I could actually create actionable Code snippets based on actions that are being watched in the cloud and because you're using the back end of a large data center You don't have to be constantly trying to you know, stream an entire twitter feed For any other social media this might apply to and right now twitter is the one big one that they have it applied because of the structured data of Twitter it's easy and you can tweet something they can then spin up an instance and you only have to pay for because this is obviously Considering you're running things in the cloud as your compute time costs It can then trigger the instance. So the actionable item we've done This was just really neat to see and conceptually realized that wow, we could actually do this So let's say we have other triggers that other events that occur And with these events that occur you have an action item that gets kicked off Let's say weather announcements You want to do this or you see something humming and you want it to do that We kind of joked it's like the if then if this then that at the data center level So it's a really big thing We covered some of this in detail on the smlr podcast because I did an interview with both kori sanders and john gossman And we talked a little bit about the event card that is an episode available I'll link it below in the notes here And you know, we get a little bit more in depth on some of the things that are offering there But that's a quick summary of the microsoft connect 2017 highlights announcements Bringing ai everywhere as part of their announcement Entitled they have for this and it's like I said really interesting. You can watch the entire keynote I'll leave a link to that as well And if you like to content here like and subscribe That's my quick little summary of some of the highlights I seen at the microsoft connect 2017 event