Book of News

Summary

The Book of News is your guide to all key items being announced at Microsoft Build.

Highlights

Microsoft is announcing that it will adopt the same open plugin standard that OpenAI introduced for ChatGPT, enabling interoperability across ChatGPT and the breadth of Microsoft’s copilot offerings. ([View Highlight] (https://read.readwise.io/read/01h2543th1s2q60h1ezeaxk6qa))

ChatGPT, Bing, Dynamics 365 Copilot (in preview) and Microsoft 365 Copilot (in preview). ([View Highlight] (https://read.readwise.io/read/01h2544686whp9ggf3dnvcjs5h))

Microsoft Fabric, now in preview, delivers an integrated and simplified experience for all analytics workloads and users on an enterprise-grade data foundation. It brings together Power BI, Data Factory and the next generation of Synapse in a unified software as a service (SaaS) offering to give customers a price-effective and easy-to-manage modern analytics solution for the era of AI. ([View Highlight] (https://read.readwise.io/read/01h2545z9hy6xy6z86hj2tsrfm))

Microsoft is integrating Copilot in Microsoft Fabric, in preview soon, to enable the use of natural language and a chat experience to generate code and queries, create AI plugins using a low/no-code experience, enable custom Q&A, tailor semantics and components within the plugin and deploy to Microsoft Teams, Power BI and web. ([View Highlight] (https://read.readwise.io/read/01h2546bnbgjze89vemg6jwgsw))

Microsoft Azure Container Storage, a unique volume management service built natively for containers, is previewing new features that will enhance container workload performance, reliability and backup experience. ([View Highlight] (https://read.readwise.io/read/01h2546xyk98wpq7025gj7txz9))

Volume snapshot will let developers capture the point-in-time state of the persistent volumes, enabling them to back up the data before applying changes. ([View Highlight] (https://read.readwise.io/read/01h25470tm3g8zkxs3yjfywvdb))

Increasing the scalability target of Persistent Volumes will let developers scale up their storage footprint easily, allowing them to focus on building data services instead of worrying about the underlying infrastructure limits. ([View Highlight] (https://read.readwise.io/read/01h254731pm6d57gjwphy3f8nt))

Microsoft Cost Management is launching a new experience that leverages next-generation AI capabilities to give Microsoft Cloud customers an easy way to understand, analyze and manage their cloud costs and bills. Customers can use prompts for requests, such as “Summarize my invoice,” “Break down my costs,” “Why did my bill go up?” or “How can I reduce my costs?” ([View Highlight] (https://read.readwise.io/read/01h2547t2k268nmpq9shc329rv))

Azure Deployment Environments, now generally available, allow developers to use the service to self-deploy the environments they need on demand using infrastructure-as-code templates. This update now includes a specialized portal that gives developers a clear, easy interface to create and manage their environments. ([View Highlight] (https://read.readwise.io/read/01h2548e69weym9ws2k6qm9wgz))

Additionally, dev teams can choose between building their infrastructure-as-code templates as Terraform or Azure Resource Management files. Terraform support will be launched in preview and customers can sign up for early access at Microsoft Build. ([View Highlight] (https://read.readwise.io/read/01h2548nczv56a8j8g7t5wfqsj))

GitHub Advanced Security for Azure DevOps is now in preview and will natively embed automated security checks into the Azure DevOps platform, allowing developers to secure their code, secrets and supply chain without leaving their workflow using: ([View Highlight] (https://read.readwise.io/read/01h2549dszpwhg6y6jk0afy6f5))

Code scanning, ([View Highlight] (https://read.readwise.io/read/01h2549nv2rg5prshrez87v8wk))

Secret scanning ([View Highlight] (https://read.readwise.io/read/01h2549m7p4a0yjw4aj21nwh2e))

Dependency scanning ([View Highlight] (https://read.readwise.io/read/01h2549r74ycgxfrrk3s71pbr4))

Microsoft Edge Workspaces, which lets users share, organize and browse the same set of browser tabs together, will be generally available in the next few months for enterprises and will add consumer access ([View Highlight] (https://read.readwise.io/read/01h254f3spsdwdc3vgsqxek6vq))

Windows Copilot can be docked in a side pane so that it stays persistent next to any of a user’s apps, always there to provide assistance no matter what they’re doing – getting inspired, planning, communicating, creating.
Windows Copilot will start to become available in preview for Windows 11 in June. ([View Highlight] (https://read.readwise.io/read/01h254hvgf5xfp2tezp0x1521h))

Dev Home will allow users to quickly set up their machines, connect to GitHub and monitor and manage workflows in one central location. Dev Home is open source and extensible, allowing users to enhance their experience with a customizable dashboard and the tools they need to be successful. Users can also add GitHub widgets to track projects and system widgets to track CPU and GPU performance. ([View Highlight] (https://read.readwise.io/read/01h254k7z7p7wggr9cjebvma2c))

Dev Drive is a new type of storage volume designed to provide developers with a file system that meets their needs for both performance and security. ([View Highlight] (https://read.readwise.io/read/01h254jyynze2r7qh5cxdw6nf2))

Windows Terminal is getting smarter with GitHub Copilot X. Users of GitHub Copilot will be able to take advantage of natural language AI both inline and in an experimental chat experience to recommend commands, explain errors and take actions within the Terminal app. Microsoft is also experimenting with GitHub Copilot-powered AI in other developer tools like WinDBG to help developers’ complete tasks with less toil. ([View Highlight] (https://read.readwise.io/read/01h254jqjp5cccr9wkxccyxg27))