10 years familiar with technology, I understand the role of events such as Microsoft Build, September iPhone or Google I / O. At events like this, the world's number one giants will officially launch the hottest projects, bringing the world of technology to a few more steps.
And of course, big events are always a source of great news for the press around the world. As the big guys bring the world forward, we - like any other true technology fan - have more tools to imagine. I do not know how you like it, but I would love to imagine with all the tech tools that the big guys have just released, how the world will change.
But Microsoft BUILD this year saw a phenomenon I think very rare in recent years. Press can not write anything about Microsoft's new vision. I surf the pages of Vietnam, including foreign news pages, perhaps BUILD this year "lay" out three items are many.All the press announcements in "WAITING FROM BUILD" such as Windows updates, Cortana, or any other product related to end users are not available.
The Harmann Invoke speaker that Microsoft has not introduced officially became hot news.
The number of users, which are usually only given as an "appetizer" for big events, seems to have become the most important information reported by BUILD 2017.
One foreign site is "pointing out" that "Diversifying employee resources is an important element of Microsoft BUILD this year." Of course, racial and gender issues are still hurting in the United States, but the software industry in my view has always been progressive. Diversification is never a problem.
One of my journalists reportedly said, "I'm too sleepy." This friend, event of Samsung, Apple, Facebook ... also with me in battle. 10 years, this is the first time you lamented the hour.So what makes a BUILD event so boring? Let me summarize the most important statements at BUILD 2017 for you, but let me first say, if you can not be patient, please ignore all the bullets and read the next paragraph.
- Microsoft's vision of "mobile, cloud" advances one step further with "smart clouds, smart edges." The "edges" here are endpoints, including user devices and IoT machines.
- "Serverless" will become the principle of the cloud. With Azure IoT Edge, processing logic is not necessarily on the server.
- Azure officially supports MySQL and PostgreSQL, which are competing technologies with Microsoft SQL Server.
- Visual Studio for Mac officially released.
- Azure Cloud Shell launches in browser.
- Azure Cosmo DB enables corporations to build a global data storage model.
- Azure Batch AI Training: Provides services that enable developers to train their machine learning models on Azure, ignoring infrastructure concerns.
- Custom Vision: Create a visual identity at a glance with a custom set of data.
- A new series of Cognitive Service and Bot Framework debuts.Why all this is meaningless to the technology devotee is not the coder? Simply put, all of these new products and services are something you will never touch. To put it more precisely, you do not need to pay any attention to the Microsoft concepts mentioned in the BUILD 2017 opening. What is "Serverless"? Visual Studio will never be as popular as Office. As for PostgreSQL, many devs do not know, let alone non-IT people.
But that does not mean that what Microsoft announced yesterday does not move the world, it somehow affects my life and you. To summarize the meaning of BUILD 2017, I would like to reiterate a statement in the speech of Harry Shum, deputy general manager of AI at Microsoft:And indeed all that Microsoft has announced yesterday will force the software industry to think a lot about its work. The fact that serverless from the role is just a "concept in the coding" becomes the strategic focus of a software giant is not that simple. It's not a small event to have a well-known gibberish as your own product priority. Finding ways to increase the power of the cloud is no small feat. Cosmo DB promises to be an extremely important step for all businesses that want to "cloud" - in other words, all businesses do not compete with Microsoft.
Many other claims will help cloud and AI become two parallel concepts. Microsoft has made an important push to move the AI forward.
This is how Microsoft's return to the emperor of the IT world. Microsoft has always been a platform company. MS-DOS brings computers to everyone, opening up the era of IT expansion, creating a world with more than 5 computers. Windows makes the hi-tech experience simple but not limited to self-made hardware such as Apple.
Then came the Internet, the fierce competition of Microsoft and Netscape in the early years was an important precondition for bringing web standards forward. Internet Explorer will become a nightmare later, but the truth is that if Microsoft is not fighting with Netscape, the development of the WWW will not be that fast.In essence, Microsoft's BUILD 2017 is the same. Microsoft does not directly create the software products / services you use every day, but Microsoft is fiercely trying to find a way to encourage, to simplify work, to save money for people. create those products - the developers. The once glorious past is: Previously, Microsoft may not directly create DOS / Windows applications that you use daily, not create sites that you "add". But by promoting the development of DOS, Windows and the WWW, Microsoft is contributing an important part to the world of web apps and applications that can explode: attractive applications and websites can appear in a way less expensive, easier, much simpler.
Today, the role of MS-DOS, Windows, and the WWW is replaced by the Azure cloud, the AI of Cognitive Services, and the Bot Framework, with giant data-storage engines behind Cosmo.
I think this will be a way for Microsoft to survive. The emperor's way of life would last forever while Apple, Google or Facebook could all fall apart. Why? Apple lives by selling hardware to its users, Google and Facebook dominate both the search and social networks but are essentially living by advertising. All of these tools and ways of life can have one day to die. Even so is Google: if users switch to a more voice-based interface, the land of traditional advertising will shrink.
