Constellation Research analyst Holger Mueller's takeaways of the 2016 edition of Microsoft Build conference, held in San Francisco March / April 2016.

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Build 2016 Day #2 Keynote Takeaways
• Azure Build out – now in 30 countries – more than AWS and GCP combined
• Build your mobile Apps with Microsoft tools – Xamarind is free!
• IoT – IoT Starter kits, Hub Device Mgmt and Gateway SDK make it easier
• Azure Service Fabric – Make your Microservices based apps better.
• DocumentDB – Ready for more exposure, don’t always go for MongoDB.
• Please build Office Apps, there is 1B Users out there and we have Graph API
• Great Microsoft technology shown by ISVs and enterprises in @Guggs show
Summary: Azure is ready for prime time, build UWP apps, and please
somd more Office Apps.

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MyPOV
• Most coherent Build ever – all Conversation as a Platform (CaaP) and Azure
• MIA: Hardware (except Hololens), SQL Server, App Servers, Azure Stack (!)
• Kudos to Microsoft for a bold vision with CaaP and shipping all enabling tools
to developers at the point of unveiling the vision
• NextGenApps like CaaP enabling bots and mobile will have to fuel Azure
growth post Office conversions to the cloud
• Hololens ships, is ready, now it’s time to build apps. 1st time Microsoft owns
and controls complete platform, the ‘headable’ PC.
Summary: Microsoft makes it easy for developers to build next gen
Apps – now it needs them to build them.