Big announcements about the reimagining of Windows continues to pour out of the Microsoft BUILD conference on day 2, and MVPs are right in the middle of it. We’ve been watching their blog posts and tweets so you can get a front row seat to see what these community leaders have to say about the news coming out of Anaheim.
Also, check out the review of Day 1 at Build According to MVPs.
Blogs:
David Pallmann: Windows Azure: Architecture MVP
Live from the BUILD conference- Windows 8
Raffaele Rialdi: Developer Security: Development MVP
Deep Diving WinRT and Metro Style Apps for Windows 8
Mercel de Vries: Visual Studio ALM MVP
Microsoft Build Conference Day 2, Metro Style Apps API has Natural Feel for all Developers
Louis-Guillaume Monrand: MVP
How to get back the Windows 7 Start Menu in Windows 8
Gregory Renard: Windows Azure: Architecture MVP
//Build/ Windows 8 : Microsoft galope sur le chemin de l’évolution et non de la révolution !
Roberto Brunetti: MVP
Jeremy Likness: Silverlight: Architecture
Windows 8: What you Need to Know
Chris Klug: Silverlight MVP
Windows 8 Feature- Roaming Data
The Windows 8 Developer Story According to Me (at the Moment)
Aidan Finn: Virtual Machines: Systems Administration MVP
Build Windows 2011 Windows Server 8 Keynote
Build Windows: Windows 8 Server
Using Windows Server 8 for Building Private and Public Clouds
A Deep Dive into Hyper-V Networking
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.
Here are some of our favorites from Day 2 at BUILD:
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MVP |
Tweet |
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Miguel Carrasco |
The most exciting thing about Windows 8 Slate devices is the incredibly powerful development |
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Bruce Johnson |
I already love the find matching code feature in VS11 #bldwin |
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Robert Hogg |
WOW visual studio 11 imaging and graphics has moved kicking and screaming from the 1980's with great image and 3D editors #bldwin #nomorebmp |
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Shy Cohen |
Awesome, awesome, awesome! Connecting the client rendered view to the code that generated it! Can't wait to get my hands on this! #bldwin |
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Shy Cohen |
OMG! Its gets better and better! Minified and bundled versions of scripts and CSS by convention! #bldwin |
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Todd Anglin |
Today's #bldwin keynote is like cool, refreshing lemonade for the .NET developer. Gets you excited about .NET again. |
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Miguel Carrasco |
Showing user stories, sprints, sprint planning, tasks, teams, task board, how to run a stand up meeting. #bldwin Awesome demo! |
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Maarten van Stam |
Golden Tickets for TFS Azure services available for //Build attendees #bldwin |
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Steve Smith |
Move virtual machine storage location while it is running with no downtime in win server 8 #bldwin |
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Dennis Vroegop |
Can't wait to start using TFS in the cloud. It will make life so much easier. #bldwin |
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Manan Kakkar |
Password Vault in Windows 8—great addition! Synced auth! looks like that Windows Vault thing is finally *something* #bldwin |
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Rick G. Garibay |
Yes, that wooho on #appfabric #ServiceBus was me :-) #BldWin |
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Miguel Carrasco |
West Coast Customs in the house... have you ever imagined a dream car that ha augmented reality right in the front windshield? #bldwin |
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Manan Kakkar |
Microsoft just turned the nerd alert to a whole new level with West Coast Customs on stage. #bldwin |
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Aidan Finn |
#SURPRISE Steve Ballmer comes out |
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Kevin Griffin |
Oh snap... |
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Manan Kakkar |
we missed you Steve! #bldwin |
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RobinDotNet |
Wow Over 500k downloads of windows 8 last night. Amazing. |
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Chris Woodruff |
I may be called MSFT fanboy but I am very excited to be a developer that primarily uses .NET. I want to make great solutions & will #bldwin |
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Todd Anglin |
The #bldwin masses are flooding the expo, armed with questions for MSFT http://twitpic.com/6kvhwq |
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Chad Campbell |
If you've been writing WP7 apps, it looks like those skills will translate swimmingly to Windows 8 |
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Miguel Carrasco |
Make the function beautiful! Strip it down to nothing, and then make it beautiful! #bldwin |
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Jennifer Smith |
Loving Joe Stegman's session on xaml. Approaching on a level that everyone can understand. |
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Miguel Carrasco |
Pride in craftsmanship, Be fast and fluid, Authentically digital, Do more with less, Win as one! #bldwin |
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Todd Anglin |
Windows Phone team is creating CSS skins for jQuery Mobile that look WinPhone native. #bldwin |
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Rick G. Garibay |
#Server8 The power of many servers, the simplicity of one. #bldwin |
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Peter Ritchie |
Just did interview with my friends at @DevExpress about all the good stiff we've seen so far this week #bldwin #BldWinMVP |
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Jim Wooley |
Windows 8 is about no PC left behind. -Joe Stegman #bldwin |
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Aidan Finn |
Automatic classification of data for dynamic access control is serious business reason for Windows Server 8!!!! #bldwin #bldwinmvp |
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Raffaele Rialdi |
You could never imagine guys. This Win8 stuff is huge and terribly cool #WinRT #bldwin |
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Walt Ritscher |
You know how people take pics of session screens with their phones? This morning I saw dozens of ppl taking pic with their new win8 slates. |
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Miguel Carrasco |
I love that Blend designer is now incorporated right into Visual Studio! #bldwin |
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Evan Hutnick |
@miguelcarrasco We've been keeping quiet about that one since the MVP summit :) #bldwin |
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Kate Gregory |
Went quiet because i am massively engaged with C++ content in packed rooms. Small break between sessions to say "wow!" #bldwin #happycamper |
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Jeremiah Morrill |
Microsoft has out done themselves with c++/com. Amazing! C# should have little complaints about moving over. |
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W. Kevin Hazzard |
As sad as I was when @devhawk left the DLR team I fully understand why he was THE perfect choice on the WinRT team. This changes everything. |
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Evan Hutnick |
After this little Xaml revolution at #bldwin I seriously need to get my website up. You'll see why, have had domain for two years :D |
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wwoombile |
In love with CSS3 #bldwin |
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DerikWhittaker |
So with Win8 I am no longer just a .net dev I am also a WinRt dev. more resume candy #bldwin #bldwinmvp |
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Fabien Lavocat |
I'm creating my first application for Windows 8 :) #proud #bldwin |
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sevensteps |
ok, decided. not going to the #bldwin party. 1) didn't sleep last night. 2) win8 app almost done, just another couple of hours. Almost there |
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Vasu Jain |
Within a single day of announce of developer preview of Windows 8, it has more users than Mac OS X Lion .. #bldWin |
And for those of you who really want to experience the full effect of this event you can find a more complete set of tweets here:
