At Microsoft Build last week, Satya Nadella, Microsoft's CEO, opened with the benefits of collaboration and cooperation, how developers are now growing faster at non-tech companies than inside tech companies, how companies will need to advance, and how every person will need to begin preparing for a very different future. Pretty much the entire event was about massive improvements to developer tools so that more people could become developers, and these newly-enabled devs could more aggressively build their part of this fantastic future. Microsoft isn't just building for the future. The company is focusing on tools that will allow an ever-broader group of people to program for themselves. Microsoft anticipates a new PC revolution -- but instead of focusing on operational tools like word processors, spreadsheets, email, and databases, they aim to enable a new class of citizen developers that won't only be adjusting to that future -- but crafting it in real time. At the heart of this plan for the future is Microsoft's pivot to open source; and while there were several benefits highlighted for that action, an important one was left out which is that Microsoft has become a far better place to work. Let's talk about some of the interesting things that came out of Microsoft Build last week, and we'll close with my product of the week, a 3D printed fake rhino horn with the same genetic fingerprint as a real one. You'll want to check this out because it is brilliant.
At Microsoft Build last week, Satya Nadella, Microsoft's CEO, opened with the benefits of collaboration and cooperation, how developers are now growing faster at non-tech companies than inside tech companies, how companies will need to advance, and how every person will need to begin preparing for a very different future. Pretty much the entire event was about massive improvements to developer tools so that more people could become developers, and these newly-enabled devs could more aggressively build their part of this fantastic future. Microsoft isn't just building for the future. The company is focusing on tools that will allow an ever-broader group of people to program for themselves. Microsoft anticipates a new PC revolution -- but instead of focusing on operational tools like word processors, spreadsheets, email, and databases, they aim to enable a new class of citizen developers that won't only be adjusting to that future -- but crafting it in real time. At the heart of this plan for the future is Microsoft's pivot to open source; and while there were several benefits highlighted for that action, an important one was left out which is that Microsoft has become a far better place to work. Let's talk about some of the interesting things that came out of Microsoft Build last week, and we'll close with my product of the week, a 3D printed fake rhino horn with the same genetic fingerprint as a real one. You'll want to check this out because it is brilliant.
