


Related to this in Microsoft Office is ‘ideas’. Microsoft Search is completely rewritten, and will now deliver a consistent search and search result throughout all application, where you are working in Outlook on the Web, PowerPoint, Windows 10 or Outlook, it will all give consistent results. Oh, did I already mention security? And be honest, Microsoft has to, don’t they? If Office 365 or Azure is massively compromised, it will take out customers’ trust and potentially lose business….Īnother area where you can see the influence of the cloud is in desktop application. That’s what you see in a lot of sessions here at Ignite, security, security and security. You can use this yourself, and by doing so create a safer environment for you Azure and Office usage. It is now possible to check where logins are coming from, what kind of attacks are happening or if an attack is going to happen. The same happens in Azure Active Directory. Based on this, it is possible to predict certain actions, and take pro-active measures. Al these servers send out all kinds of monitoring information, and this is analyzed using AI and ML. For example, in Exchange Online Protection Microsoft is receiving billion and billion of messages.

Data in the cloud, software in the cloud, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), all services, organization and users benefit from this.ĪI and ML sound scary, especially if you are a fan of science fiction movies where computers take over, but there are better solution. It should not be a surprise, but it’s all about the cloud at such a keynote, “intelligent cloud” and “intelligent edge”, how the various applications and services can use this, for the benefit of the user. The opening keynote is also a vision keynote, delivered by Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft. That’s a reasonable sized city walking around in a conference center, and it’s pretty impressive to see all this. 30,000 attendees from 5,000 organizations worldwide. Ignite is an annual event held in the US, and it’s big. And what’s the best way to get up-to-speed with Microsoft vision, strategy and new products? Yes, Ignite…. Also I did some TechEd events, both as speaker as well as attendee but that’s also a long time ago. It’s been some time since I’ve visited a Microsoft conference, I think the Microsoft Exchange Conference in Austin, TX in early 2013. I’ve been at the Microsoft Ignite conference in Orlando from Sunday September 23 until Friday September 28.
