{"id":13518,"date":"2020-05-20T11:11:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-20T11:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/2020\/05\/20\/the-biggest-announcements-from-microsoft-build-2020\/"},"modified":"2020-05-20T11:11:00","modified_gmt":"2020-05-20T11:11:00","slug":"the-biggest-announcements-from-microsoft-build-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/05\/20\/the-biggest-announcements-from-microsoft-build-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"The biggest announcements from Microsoft Build 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/span>Photo by Tom Warren \/ The Verge<\/small><\/p>\n

Microsoft’s annual developer conference has officially kicked off, the first yearly developer conference in the consumer tech world we’ve experienced online. The others are Google I\/O and Apple’s WWDC. All three have obviously changed during the pandemic and watching what each company has chosen (or will choose) to do has been instructive.<\/p>\n

Google straight up cancelled I\/O entirely — perhaps playing it safer, as in the COVID timeline in the Bay Area Google had to make a call when things were looking particularly dire. There will be some sort of online unveiling for Android, at least. Apple’s is still “on” as an online-only event, and though you never know with Apple I suspect it will try to make a splash with new versions of iOS, iPadOS, and it might even remember to do something with macOS.<\/p>\n

Faced with the same circumstances, Microsoft chose to do something remarkable with its developer conference: it put on a developer keynote.<\/p>\n

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Normally these keynotes try to strike a balance between appealing to consumers with new product news and to developers with new tools that will make their lives easier. Microsoft, which usually puts on the most technical conference, just went all in with developer-focused content.<\/p>\n

The company’s presentation also savvily moved from house to house, treating its demonstrations more like a live meeting you were dialed into at work than a show you were just an audience member for.<\/p>\n

It was less like a keynote and more like “hangin’ with the Micro…squad<\/em>!” Do Microsoft’s presenters actually call themselves that? Of course not. Would I believe you if you told me they did based on the quality and quantity of adorably cringey dad-humor on display on Build’s video feed? Hell yes, and of course I loved it.<\/p>\n

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A funny exchange between @<\/span>panos_panay<\/span> and @<\/span>shanselman<\/span>. Microsoft has really pulled off the WFH keynote stream today<\/p>\n

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