Articles by KENNETH

Do more at the intelligent edge with Windows 10 IoT In the world of connected things, devices are getting more powerful. Advances in silicon, memory, and cloud technologies including machine learning and artificial intelligence are enabling devices to do more at the edge. These advances will expand use cases in manufacturing, healthcare, agriculture, and many other industries where an intelligent edge will unlock the power of the intelligent cloud in new ways. Today, we are excited to announce a Windows AI Platform-enabled solution to put this power in the hands of every developer. In the next update to Windows 10, the Windows AI Platform with Azure Machine Learning together with Azure IoT Edge will bring hardware-accelerated machine learning model evaluation on the edge. By using instruction set optimizations on modern CPUs, hardware acceleration on GPUs that support DirectX 12, and [ more… ]

Introducing two new mixed reality business applications: Microsoft Remote Assist and Microsoft Layout Hey everyone! I am quite excited to share today’s blog. This morning I will be joining Satya Nadella at day one of Microsoft Build 2018 to announce two new apps coming to Microsoft HoloLens customers as a limited-time free preview starting May 22 — Microsoft Remote Assist and Microsoft Layout. Last year I had the chance to speak at Future Decoded and talk about our vision for mixed reality in the modern workplace. In particular, I talked about expanding our focus from Information Workers to include Firstline Workers. Firstline Workers in any company are the first to the customer and the first to the problem. This includes people who primarily interact with customers, as well as people who create and operate products, machines, and spaces and who [ more… ]

Microsoft Build 2018: Empowering developers to build intelligent apps with Microsoft 365 Ahead of his keynote tomorrow, CVP of Windows, Joe Belfiore on the Microsoft 365 Blog shared new details around how Microsoft 365 will empower developers to build intelligent apps for where and how the world works. In case you’re unfamiliar, Microsoft 365 brings together Office 365, Windows 10, and Enterprise Mobility + Security (EMS), as a complete, intelligent and secure solution to empower employees. As the largest productivity platform in the world, it’s a vital part of the intelligent edge—and it enables developers to create beneficial experiences that work elegantly across many different device types and many different computing ‘senses’—including vision and voice. Here are some highlights from the news Joe shared: A new way to connect your phone to your PC with Windows 10 that enables instant access to text messages, photos, [ more… ]

Modernizing applications for our multi-sense, multi device world Tomorrow at Build 2018, Joe Belfiore and I will have the privilege of sharing with you some of the advancements in Microsoft 365 that are focused on multi-sense and multi-device experiences. Microsoft 365 allows developers to drive more productivity and engagement holistically – in one ecosystem. We know that building for the future comes with many complex challenges, so we have taken a practical approach to helping you be more productive when updating your existing applications. We focused on four key areas: Provide great user productivity in our multi-sense, multi-device world Engage your employees where they work Deliver pragmatic deployment solutions Make Windows your primary dev box for all your workload needs across the Intelligent Cloud and Intelligent Edge Great user productivity in our multi-sense, multi-device world To support the multi-sense, multi-device [ more… ]