This is what you missed on the first day of Microsoft Build 2017

Today in Seattle, Microsoft opened the first day of the annual developer conference, Build. Although geared towards developers, most will not have technologies for customer-facing users like Google, Facebook or Apple events, there is still a lot to say about this event. .

Windows 10 marks a big milestone

Microsoft aims to reach 1 billion devices by mid-2018 , the goal sounds quite remote. Not to mention growth is stalling, the company has recently added 100 million users since reaching 400 million users in September.

PowerPoint now has a translation tool

PowerPoint now has a plugin that allows you to translate right in the slide show. This tool uses Microsoft Translation API to translate content in 10 languages: Arabic, Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Russian and Spanish . Moreover, the plugin also creates annotations in languages ​​suitable for those who have difficulty hearing.

With 100 million Office 365 users worldwide, this translation tool will be very welcome. PowerPoint is the most popular application for creating a slideshow, so creating a slide in English and not having to translate it, can be used immediately in Beijing that has never been heard.

Keep the working environment safe with AI

Andrea Carl. Commercial public relations manager at Microsoft today showed how a smart AI can help make workplace safer. Using Azure Stack, Azure IoT Edge, Microsoft Cognitive Services and special camcorders, viewers clearly see how today's AI can save people by predicting accidents and warning in advance.

Public relations director Andrea Carl at Build 2017

Cortana Skils Kit officially released Public Preview in the US

After the promise from September, Microsoft today officially allowed developers to create new skills for Cortana. Developers can build skills for Cortana by creating bots and publishing on Cortana's own channel using Microsoft Bot Framework or reusing the code used to create Alexa. According to Harman Kardon Invoke, it is available on all Windows 10 devices, Android, iOS and devices with new Cortana integration. With 141 million Cortana users, developers will be motivated to create new features for her AI assistant.

Release Visual Studio for macOS

After the promise in November, today Microsoft officially announced Visual Studio has released to the public (previously Preview version). This is important because it is a sign of Microsoft 's vision of supporting developers, no matter where they write the code. Before that was the Linux terminal version on Windows released last year.

Visual Studio is a popular IDE, although often used for Windows applications, it still makes great strides when working on mobile (along with Xamarin) and now computer platforms like macOS and Linux.

Azure moves to a mobile device

Program director Scott Hanselman announced important updates to the cloud computing platform. One of the most interesting things is the introduction of two mobile apps for iOS and Andoird , helping users manage applications using Azure. Not really that you can work on a mobile application, but you can check your analytics in real time, view error reports, restart virtual machines . to work more conveniently.

CEO Satya Nadella at Microsoft Build 2017

Build AI models in minutes

No doubt the AI ​​will still stir the technology industry for the next few years. And one of the remarkable tools is Cognitive Services. Usually it takes several days (sometimes weeks or months) to teach AI to do simple tasks. Today, Microsoft unveiled Custom Vision, a tool that enables the creation of complex computer vision applications very quickly. Creating visual API models now requires only a few sample data to teach the model. This will significantly increase the development process.

Here are a few other remarkable things

1. Azure Batch AI Training releases Private Preview that allows running models with multiple CPUs and GPUs.
2. Microsoft officially owns the most identifiable services with 29, in addition to Custom Vision, there are new services like Bing Custom Search, Custom Decision Service and Video Indexer.
3. The Microsoft Graph API allows developers to access data 365 and connect more easily, including APIs from SharePoint and Planner.
4. Any developer can publish on Microsoft Teams.
5. The new Project Emma project explores the use of sensors and AI to detect and monitor complex symptoms of diseases.
6. New MySQL and PostgreSQL management services will work with Azure SQL Database to bring developers more options and flexibility.
7. Publish Azure Cosmos DB.
8. Introducing Azure IoT Edge.