BUILD: Day 1
Yesterday was the first day of Microsoft’s BUILD conference in Anaheim, California. Thousands attended in person and many more tuned in online to see the detailed preview of the next major Windows release codenamed “Windows 8.” Since nobody knows the real-world impact of Microsoft products on the community like MVPS—we’ve started gathering a sampling of their blog posts and tweets as they experience BUILD. Take a look!
Blogs
Mike Halsey: Windows Expert MVP
Windows 8 Developer Questions Answered
Windows 8, Much More than Metro
Jeremy Likness: Silverlight MVP
Windows 8 and Build Day 1 Keynote Thoughts
Michael Crump: Silverlight MVP
Bullet Points from Build-Day 1 and my thoughts
The BUILD Report #1: Sinfosky Keynote
Laurent Duveau: Silverlight MVP
Build Windows Keynote Thoughts
Build Windows Day One Done and Dusted
Aidan Finn: Virtual Machine and Systems Administration MVP
Build Windows 2011: 8 Traits of Great Metrol Style Apps
First Impression of the Windows 8 Slate… with Hyper-V
Tweets
We asked MVPs who were attending BUILD and wanted to be included in our MVPs at BUILD 2011 twitter list to tweet #bldwinmvp or let us know @MVPAward. The result? A list of 95 MVPs at the conference tweeting about their thoughts, questions and feelings about all things BUILD. Here are a few of our favorites that really highlight BUILD so far:
| MVP | Tweet |
| Jeremy Thake | #bldwin keynote filling up! Lots of excited geeks awaiting Microsoft's vision for the future of PC @ //build http://instagr.am/p/M_Bjc/ |
| Christian Nagel | Windows 8 is the reimagination of Windows, but everything that runs on Windows 7 runs on Windows 8 #bldwin |
| Laurent Bugnion | OK that is sweet! Picture login screen for Windows 8, press on 3 areas of a picture to log in. #bldwin |
| Miguel Carrasco | New start menu / desktop is incredibly beautiful. "Start Screen" is a unification of desktop, start, notifications, etc. Highly customizable |
| Rob Zelt | Everybody's default win8 password is going to be head, shoulders, knees and toes? #bldwin #photopassword |
| Miguel Carrasco | The entire interface is very minimalistic. I have to say it looks very clean and modern. #bldwin |
| Miguel Carrasco | "Is there anything better than a "Chrome Free" browsing?" - Steven Sinofsky - Browser in Windows 8 has no chrome at all. |
| Manan Kakkar | SPELLCHECK THROUGHOUT THE SYSTEM & AUTO CHECK! Windows 8, you've changed everything. #bldwin |
| CaffeinatedGeek | Settings sharing across devices very interesting. Especially for us geeks with many devices. #bldwin |
| Steve Smith | Having better app to app communication in #win8 is exciting. Moving beyond clipboard for app comms will be awesome |
| Miguel Carrasco | Bold Move: All Metro Style Apps are written with any language you want. C, C++. C#, VB, JavaScript, HTML/CSS. #bldwin |
| Miguel Carrasco | Let me say that again (for developers): .net is NOT .dead. You pick whatever language you want! #bldwin |
| Miguel Carrasco | Microsoft essentially just brought .net to the slate party, leapfrogging iOS platform, dev tools, and user experience in a major way #bldwin |
| Bruce Johnson | Big win!!! RT @andrewbrust: Expression Blend will now work with HTML5/CSS as well as XAML. |
| Steve Smith | Yay for app store in windows, with easy access from visual studio. Finally. #Bldwin |
| Todd Anglin | Deploy HTML apps to Windows Store directly from Visual Studio. #bldwin |
| Matt Milner | Microsoft dev tools are hands down the best. Development on win 8 looks fun and great tool support. #BldWin |
| Shy Cohen | Publishing an app on the Windows Store is like waiting for Pizza :) #bldwin |
| Miguel Carrasco | Microsoft is being completely transparent on the app approval process. Huge win vs: Apple's controlling model. #bldwin |
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Miguel Carrasco
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Personally, I think Expression Blend is the dagger through Apple and Androids platforms. #bldwin Designers will have complete control. |
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Roberto Hernandez
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All this HTML5 and Javascript has me smiling ear to ear! #bldwin #bldwinmvp |
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W. Kevin Hazzard
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XAML says, "Rumors of my death have been highly exaggerated." #bldwin #mvpbuzz |
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Miguel Carrasco
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400 Million devices you can target when Windows 8 launches. That's a lot of eyeballs. A platform that can't be ignored. #bldwin |
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Shy Cohen
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Immediate boot! Hearing about it is one thing, but seeing it is just wow! #bldwin |
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Dan Holme
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Microsoft has succeeded in something it's never done before... Kept a secret and done a reveal! Big big stuff! Great job MS! #bldwin |
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Vasu Jain
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A reply to Macbook Air ? Superthin Acer Notebooks with Windows 8 #bldwin |
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Martina Grom
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and now they will introduce and announce......the samsung slate #bldwin they made 5000 for all attendees |
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Shy Cohen
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Keyboard support in the new Metro UI is even better than in Win7. Impressive #bldwin |
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Rick G. Garibay
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#win8 is the 1st platform I've seen that lets you both play *and* get real work done with seamless transitions btw the two. Lines blurred. |
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David Pallmann
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All I can say is WOW!!!!!!!! My high expectations were EXCEEDED! #bldwin |
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Anthony Borton
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The @bldwin keynote did not disappoint. At first glance it appears MS have done a great job of Win 8. Looking forward to using it tonight. |
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Raffaele Rialdi
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As far as I could see the beginnong of this Win8 story is stunning and awesome #bldwin. Platform is back!!! |
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Rick G. Garibay
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Metro really is an evolution. It is the window through which our children will see the world. #bldwin |
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Josh Santangelo
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~5,000 nerds stampeding for free unreleased hardware, beer, and pizza is more than a little terrifying. #bldwin |
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Jeremy Thake
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It's like Xmas came early. Woot! Kid in a toy shop! Free windows 8 slate!!! #bldwin http://instagr.am/p/NBOBg/ |
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W. Kevin Hazzard
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My first tweet from my Windows 8 Samsung slate. So glad I didn't give in and get an iPad. Windows 8 FTW. |
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Miguel Carrasco
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The future of computing has arrived, here is the one device to rule them all: yfrog.com/h0ypufbj #bldwin |
And for those of you who are interested in a more comprehensive experience, we’ve included a more complete stream from our twitter list below.
Stay tuned the next couple days for more on BUILD from the MVP perspective!