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Milan , April 30, 2015 – 01:04
Vincenzo Scagliarini
He expected the launch date of Windows 10. But was not disclosed. Remains vague “end of July” that we learned in the past weeks. Microsoft, however, has astounded by presenting a world of holograms and robots. All thanks to Hololens, the response of the giant founded by Bill Gates in Oculus Rift and other virtual reality helmets.
App Universal
The Redmond company unveiled the first phase of the project in January, almost unnoticed. On April 29, at the conference Build 2015, the tone has changed. “This is a new world,” announced Alex Kipman, chief engineer of the project. The thirty-five Brazilian has already worked on Kinect, the sensor system with which the Xbox console interact with the environment, and now he wants to convey amazement: “You are lucky to live in this age.” Other novelties are passed almost overshadowed although all have a common trait: the universal app for Windows 10, can run on any device, from those with a huge screen, up to those with no screen. Just as the lenses that materialize holograms.
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Build 2015 comes the new Microsoft 10
Next generation
“Windows 10 is not a new version, is a new generation, “so said the CEO. Satya Nadella with her Indian accent and calm voice, is light years away from the tone of the plaster founder Bill Gates is the screams thrown from the stage by his predecessor Steve Ballmer. And there is no denying that the changes are huge. Windows 10 provides a unified experience for all devices that use it. “You develop code only once and then have the app has to adapt,” said Joe Belifore, responsible for the design of new products. The underlying philosophy is called Continuum and allows, for example, to connect a mobile Windows Phone to a screen and a keyboard and have the same experience that you have on a PC desktop, with Word, Excel and Outlook. All synchronized via the cloud. And using the same commands, known as the ctrl + c. In short, a computer without need of computer. Mouse, touch or voice, it does not matter the type of interaction, only the platform. To make “the personal computer more personal.”
Hololens the conquest of reality
Cloud, universal app , one code only for each device. And the extreme of this concept are the Hololens: glasses can produce holograms and bring up the windows of Windows in the real world. So the media player can become our TV screen, we could put up notes on the walls and do videoconferencing setting a wall where it was placed the Skype window. It is a technology that can be applied to other devices. During Build it was applied on a mini-computer Raspberry Pi connected to sensors and robot with the wheels. This system mounts Windows 10. But what surprised the most is how the lens on the helmet of a human being and those of a robot are discussing in a single virtual environment. What the audience appeared like a bat broom with wheels, for the user with a helmet it became Miko: an android smiling, talk shows and cartoons virtual time information. This is the first application of a science-fiction technology on a large scale. And Microsoft is so confident that provided a version of Hololens to present at the conference.
for Linux, iOS and Android
For three decades has been the symbol of the closed software: what it is designed for Windows must run only on Windows. Now it is proposed to dialogue with all existing platform: Linux, Android, iOs and micro-cheap computer Raspberry Pi. See the robot Miko greet presenters onstage eclipsed another moment of astonishment of the day, and that is when the development tool Visual Studio has been launched first on a Mac (neither Gates nor Ballmer would have never allowed) and then on Ubuntu Linux. “Because Microsoft is primarily a company that thinks first of all programmers and helping people to make things better,” says Nadella. It has already said that upgrading to Windows 10 will be free and the same approach was followed for Visual Studio, which will be downloadable from the Mac and Linux and also Office (up to devices with a screen 9 “).
> Also on Windows 10 for phones will run the app for Android phones and, after being converted (recompiled in jargon) even the iPhone. All software but must be published in the Windows Store, which is preparing to become the gateway preferential Microsoft ecosystem. Even for desktop users. So yes it is a system open to dialogue, but reserve access control. In this the Redmond company has followed the trend that Apple and Google take for years.
Cortana vs Siri
For technical is called machine learning (software that learn), users will be able to see on your desktop only backgrounds they prefer and, in first place among the app to download, those who may want to try. It is one of the aspects on which Microsoft has invested more. This philosophy is the personal assistant Cortana. It is the anti-Siri running on Windows. So far it’s been available on Winodws Phone (in Italian only in test version). During Build 2015 was presented in enhanced version now also runs on desktop and can also interact with external app. For example you can say, “Write ”ll be late’ and send it to Antonio through WhatsApp” Cortana and open the application and paste your message.
Edge and preferences
” The Windows you are used to is back ‘, so you open the video presentation of the new operating system. It refers back to the start menu, which we have already spoken. But the company is proving to listen to the little tips that are coming through the new Windows Feedback. Who is trying to preview 10 demanded the return of transparency that characterized the seventh version of the operating system and, at the conference, Joe Belifore presented a menu with the much appreciated effect “milk bottle”.
It was announced also the trade name of the new Microsoft browser. So far it is known as Project Spartan, from now on will be called Edge. It is integrated with the personal assistant Cortana and is able to learn your browsing preferences and present them on the homepage. A space that we all see when we run the program, but, nevertheless, one of the least exploited. Cortana will provide users with the most visited sites, the favorite apps, the news of our football team, the news on the topics to which we are interested. It will also allow you to use the code of Chrome extensions.
Developer
The most extravagant of Build was the approach: already at 9 am (now San Francisco), the giant screen of the stage was full of lines of code. And there was talk of cloud integration, non-relational database, Docker, ssh tunnel. In short, before the “special effects” and the robot, there was an hour and a half of technicalities. Who nearly upset the journalists present: “I have an idea: I could throw my laptop randomly into the crowd and give readers a reportage better than I can,” said a sarcastic journalist head technology The Verge. After all, Microsoft is a company of developers talk to developers, said Nadella. And it was founded by developers, witness the tweet of the co-founder Paul Allen, who celebrated the fortieth anniversary of the company photographing his first few lines of Basic code, the programming language that has helped to create.
April 30, 2015 | 01:04
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