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I was in San Francisco last week for Microsoft’s Build conference. It was fun and we learned a lot about where Microsoft is going.

Monday night, I will be at the Montreal MSDEVMTL user group talking about all of this stuff.

Here are the highlights for me :

1. Windows 10 will support the UWP – Universal Windows Platform programming API. That means the same code will compile and run on every Windows 10 offering, from the phone, to the tablet, desktop and as big as the xbox or as small as a raspberry pi. Apps will have to adapt to their environment (kind of like the responsive web). For example, the calculator in windows 10 on the phone is running the same code than the calculation on the desktop.
2. Windows 10 will support AllJoyn, a open protocol to control lights, thermostats and stuff like that.
3. Docker support is coming to VisualStudio. Also, Windows Server will support it’s own kind of container technology
4. More apps can make it to the App Store (albeit with some limitations).
   1. You can take a web site and package it as an App
   2. You can take a win32 app and package it as an App
   3. You can convert an Android app and package it as an App
   4. You can recompile your Objective C code in Visual Studio and package it as an App
5. There is a lightweight version of Visual Studio Code that runs on Linux and Mac
6. SQL Azure has a bunch of new features, including something called the Elastic Database Pool. I am going to have to look at that instead of NoSQL.
7. There is now a SQL Data Warehouse offering, which works with PowerBI.
8. There is now a high data rate ingesting system called Data Lake – good for IoT things  which save data constantly which requires streaming analytics or something similar
9. Apps for office are coming to the IOS and Android version of Office. Let’s hope it also makes it to the Windows App Store version of Office.
10. You can now create Apps for office which target the consumer version of outlook.com
11. There will be a new App Store for Businesses
12. Future Windows Phone could be plugged into a keyboard, mouse and display. The apps could then be projected onto that display but showup in their “desktop” layout. Remember how it’s the same code everywhere !!!
13. Hololens is really cool

There were other things, but I think these were the hightlights of the keynotes or different sessions I went to.

I can’t wait for these things to actually launch so we can start using them !!!