To briefly summarize what was discussed at the Microsoft Build event;
- Microsoft's Build developer event focuses on artificial intelligence.
- Copilot is a feature developed by GitHub to provide coding assistance.
- Copilot will be integrated into other products and services such as Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365, Microsoft Viva and Microsoft Security.
- Windows 11 was introduced as the first PC platform to provide AI assistance.
- Windows 11 users will have a sidebar where they can ask Windows Copilot to rewrite or annotate content.
- A new analytics platform called Microsoft Fabric is being developed.
- Microsoft Fabric uses OneLake, a virtualized data lake that adds shortcuts to data lakes.
- There are 7 core workloads in Microsoft Fabric, including Data Factory, Synapse Data Engineering, Synapse Data Science, Synapse Data Warehousing, Synapse Real Time Analytics, Power BI and Data Activator.
- Developers can build add-ons for Microsoft's Co-Pilots and create their own add-ons.
- Microsoft announced that its AI products will adopt the add-on standard and use the same add-on standard for ChatGPT introduced by OpenAI.
- New developer features are being added to Windows, including Dev Drive, Dev Home and Dev Box.
- The Microsoft Edge browser is being updated with a new user interface and a new personality called Microsoft Edge for Business.
- Edge for Business will offer an integrated browser experience with Azure Active Directory.
- New developer features in Edge include the ability to integrate PWAs into the Edge sidebar, a new focus mode in DevTools, and JSON data display.
- Other news was announced, including GitHub Advanced Security preview for Azure DevOps and updates to Azure Kubernetes.
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