Saturday, April 2, 2016

Wolverton: Microsoft hopes to do to smartphones what browsers did to Windows

According to ArsTechnica, Microsoft said this would surpass the adoption rate for Windows 7 by as much as 145pc, obviously overstepping the failure that proved to be Windows 8.

"Reach every Windows device".

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW: Microsoft is rolling out a Bash shell in Windows 10. They include full access to Cortana's proactive intelligence and the Windows 10 Anniversary SDK, which offers all-new APIs and tools to integrate the latest Windows 10 innovations into apps, including Windows Ink and Windows Hello. These are just a few of the many features that will become available later this year, when the Windows 10 Anniversary Update becomes broadly available.

By the current pace, the target seems all well in sight. What's more, the combined Windows Phone numbers are minuscule in comparison to iOS and Android.

Microsoft executive VP Terry Myerson said: "With Windows 10 now running on over 270 million active devices, we're celebrating with our fans by delivering the Windows 10 Anniversary Update".

But at the corporation's annual Build conference earlier this morning, the company announced it was rolling out the feature to all consoles in a preview form.

Elsewhere, the other news from Microsoft concerned its development of what appears to be the frontrunner to be the first true AR headset, the HoloLens.

Microsoft partnered with Canonical (the developer behind arguably one of the largest Linux distribtions, Ubuntu) to bring the functionality to Windows. This also means that Windows users are still getting new builds and updates even though that Windows 10 launched back in July 2015. Microsoft announced these stats at their Build 2016 developer conference held in San Francisco, March 30. And customers across industries are embracing the potential of holograms already, including NASA, Case Western Reserve University, Volvo, and more.

Today's Build presentation also saw the introduction of the Microsoft Bot Framework, a toolkit designed to "understand the world around us and create intelligent bots", as well as the Skype Bot Platform that enables developers to create Skype-based bots. But the software giant is also increasingly staking out new technology areas, including software that can have natural conversations with people. Cortana, Microsoft's Digital Assistant, somehow managed to grab the highlight of the evening as audience witnessed her booking a hotel suite in Skype along with other tasks. "We want to build technology that gets the best of humanity and not the worst", Mr Nadella said.

Built on Microsoft Azure, the company said these capabilities can be used by developers and businesses to create intelligent end-to-end solutions, including new apps that learn about the world around them and bots and agents that interact with people in personalised, intelligent ways.


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