Microsoft Ignite: Keynote

So here we are, at Microsoft Ignite 2015 in Chicago. This is the first ever Ignite conference, a combination of TechEd and other conferences into one HUGE venue. Whenever I attend conferences I live blog, and this will be no exception. Today we are graced by Satya Nadella, the Microsoft CEO plus a parade of other execs. This is also being live streamed, and billed as the largest online Microsoft event ever.

Let’s get started!

Satya Nadella comes on stage

Microsoft has significant momentum in the last 12 months
We are the only company that cares about both businesses and people and brining them together
Empower: Every person and every organization
Mobile First, Cloud First
Mobile first- The mobility of the experience across many different devices
The cloud is the back-end for this experience
Security, privacy, data sovereignty, regulations: devices, apps, data, cloud
We move from driving IT solutions to driving business innovation and leadership
Three ambitions: Create more personal computing, intelligent cloud, reinvent productivity & business processes
Create more personal computing: Mobility experience, natural interactions, most trusted platform, innovative new hardware, Windows as a service
Windows 10 is not just another release, it is a new generation of Windows. It’s Windows as a service.
Announce today: Windows Update for business.
Reinvent productivity: Built-in dual use, mobile, social, intelligent, collaborative.
New scenarios: Cortana, Sway, Delve, Power BI, sales and productivity. People-centric security and compliance.
Announcement: Office 2016 preview, SKype for business
More announcements: New builds of Server 2016, System Center 2016, and SQL 2016
Introducing an advanced analytics solution for ATP threats, and take actions to isolate and protect
Announcing: Azure Stack, new Operations Management suite

The CEO of Real Madrid comes on stage. They have 450 million engaged users. New app is coming on May 19th.

Joe Belfiore, Corporate Vice President comes on stage

3 main ways of focusing on Win10 for end user: Easy upgrades and immediately be productive; more security; better ways to interact like Cortana
Shows off new start menu: Most used apps list, recently added list, common tasks, Jump lists added back
New task bar button to bring up alt-tab windows
Multiple desktop support in Windows 10
Shows off Cortana leveraging local search/index to find content such as PPT decks
Microsoft Edge (the new browser): Edge has a familiar “E” icon. Edge is a universal app.
Microsoft translator extension for reading mode in Edge
Office 2016 will come as a Windows universal app
Write your app once, and it adapts to phone to PC to surface to XBOX one to Hololens
He demos continuum where a phone is docked, and turns into a PC with keyboard and mouse
Shows off a webcam using biometrics to sign in within a second or two
Shows off Word 2016 encrypting documents, and having them show up in green in Explorer

Next up on stage: Gurdeep Singhal

By 2020 the majority of the workforce will be Millenials
10,000 babyboomers retire each day in the US
Content co-creation with Word 2016
Shows off a video of HoloLens

Julia takes stage

Office 365 video portal: YouTube for the enterprise
Shows off a new Office 365 portal that shows your meeting history, email usage, and other analytics
Shows off Word 2016 co-authoring where realtime updates are shown on the screen, pixel by pixel
Surface hub: 84″, 4K, wifi, NFC, Bluetooth, cameras, touch, etc.

On stage: Brad Anderson, Corp vice president