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Microsoft Build Announcements

Microsoft Build Announcements

Microsoft's own developer conference.

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May 27, 2024
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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella standing on a stage surrounded by names of WIndows Systems and Silicon

Hello Everyone,

Microsoft Build is an annual conference event held by Microsoft, aimed at software engineers and web developers using Windows, Microsoft Azure and other Microsoft technologies. It was first held in 2011.

The most interesting revelation? Microsoft is working on over 130 Copilots. This is a more important revelation than the media chose to cover.

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Microsoft Build didn’t feel very newsworthy, but I wanted to dig into it a bit more to see what else besides Recall has emerged. Suffice to say the cybersecurity community didn’t greet the announcement of Recall in a particularly favorable light.

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However in an era of Sovereign AI, Microsoft’s news is more important than it seems.

In recent months it was announced that Microsoft will build a $3.3 billion data center in southeastern Wisconsin that will create thousands of jobs in the presidential election battleground state. Microsoft has also announced billions for data center expansion in key European countries as well as APAC countries.

Microsoft is making a lot of workforce and labor promises with these investments. Microsoft is trying to say that its Copilot Era is impacting various industries. Meanwhile they are trying to bundle various forms of their Copilot and GPT-4 rooted technologies.

Team Copilot

Microsoft unveiled Team Copilot, bringing its AI agent to workplace chats and meetings within Microsoft Teams. Team Copilot is designed to be a "valuable member of the team" that helps people be more productive at work, according to Microsoft. It’s not Teams Copilot, for some reason it’s just Team Copilot.

Outside of Recall, this seems be one of the bigger announcements.

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