Microsoft Build 2021 Highlights

June 6, 2021June 13, 2021Sandeep Mewara Leave a comment

As shared in my earlier post, recently Microsoft held its Build Conference 2021 as a virtual event. It spanned across for more than two days that touched upon various topics. It was not as big as it used to be in person for last several years. There were numerous updates that they shared which I have tried to cover here.

To empower developers, to empower you, to empower the world.
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Core Themes

Microsoft unveiled a handful of news and tools to empower developers. There were multiple Innovative AI, mixed reality solutions, intelligent cloud tools solutions shared. Core themes for the conference were as depicted below:

With so much changing in working mode, Microsoft shared how they are looking to support for Operational excellence with their developer platform. A deep dive session on how to increase developer velocity with Microsoft’s end to end platform was shared during the conference.

Further, data being the key for future transformations, they showcased how Azure Data was being built as a platform that could support AI & data governance.

They now support building deeper Artificial Intelligence infrastructure for everyone. This would help in easy onboard and usage of Azure services to have more proactive approach to solutions. Details about how to harness the power of data in our applications with Azure can be viewed here.

With Microsoft vision to empower developers, there was a session on how to build cloud native solutions that can run on premise, on edge and on multiple cloud. Recording of the session can be seen here.

Covid has probably made the biggest shift in how we work today. A hybrid future work style is being imagined with new operating models to work, learn or collaborate.

Microsoft Teams is one of the Microsofts fastest growing product with 145 million daily active users to date.

With new working style, transformation seems to be an opportunity where cross device collaboration would be the key. Microsoft surely knows the same and are investing in it. Following session shares on how they are progressing on the collaborative applications journey: Build the next generation of collaborative apps for hybrid work

Based on the different kind of services, need of support, scalability options and various other factors puts software as a service, a much needed way. Microsoft looked focused on the same and shared on how they are working towards a cloud native SaaS apps composed on top of other clouds and components.

Microsoft also held a session showcasing how they are working towards helping build Metaverse Apps (digital and physical mixing up) incorporating digital twins, IOT, Autonomous systems, Power platforms and Mesh.

Announcements

Like always, there were few key announcements about new initiatives and solutions as mentioned below:

Real World

Through sessions, Microsoft covered few examples on how various other organizations are leveraging Microsoft solutions to provide awesome customer experience with speed and accuracy.

ms-toyota — Fusion Teams for mission critical delivery app

ms-twitter — Generate captions for live audio conversations using MS Speech service

ms-walmart — Power eCommerce transactions using MS CosmosDB

ms-servicenow — Incident response using MS Teams, Graph & Bot

ms-finastra — Application development using MS Financial Services cloud, Teams & Azure

ms-abinbev — Track bottles till distribution processes using Metaverse stack

Nadella in his keynote also shared that because of Covid, digital transformations have accelerated and has advanced by 10 years.

Post pandemic, virtual world will still have a significant role in the new normal. Solutions across industries would want to be connected and continue use the benefits of digital first responders. This would further fuel the innovations and development across technology.

Windows Update

Microsoft’s Build 2021 event didn’t had much of Windows-specific news. Few that came out were:

21H1 windows update was rolled out with multiple security fixes
Support for Linux GUI apps on Windows 10 will come later this year
Continues promoting ARM – Qualcomm ARM/Snapdragon Developer Kit was announced
Fall update (aka Sun-Valley Update) might have renewed UX

Windows10 used by 1.3 billion – work, learn, connect and play
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.NET Update

.NET 6 is the next version of .NET, a modern, open-source development platform for building apps for any OS with the best performance and productivity.

.NET 6 completes the unification of the platform and adds new capabilities for building web, native and hybrid apps for Linux, Windows, Mac, iOS and Android with a single codebase. Details can be viewed here: .NET 6 deep dive – what’s new and what’s coming

.NET 6 preview 4 available, .NET 6 planned to be released during .NET Conf 2021
Visual Studio 2022 under works, preview to be available soon

Imagine Cup 2021

Make an impact through coding, collaboration, and competition. Innovate with passion to tackle global issues and bring your idea to life in the Imagine Cup.
Imagine Cup

One Winner out of four student teams from across the world was announced. Teams brought their innovations focused on four social good categories – Earth, Education, Healthcare, and Lifestyle. With intention to solve issues in their local and global communities, multiple teams participated and final four were selected after evaluation on various parameters.

Team REWEBA from Kenya were announced as the Imagine Cup 2021 World Champions.

What’s next

Learn, connect, and explore all of the sessions and on-demand content from Microsoft Build anytime, anywhere.
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With virtual as normal, Microsoft hinted at having multiple What’s next virtual events to share updates through out the year. For now, they have asked to save the date June 24 as event to share all about the operating system’s updates.

All the MS Build sessions are recorded and can be viewed from here.

Reference: https://mybuild.microsoft.com/home

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Microsoft Build 2021

May 21, 2021May 21, 2021Sandeep Mewara Leave a comment

Microsoft Build is an online free event planned on May 25-27, 2021. It’s suggestible to register in order to access the full learning experience, including all sessions and the Connection Zone. All the details of the event are here.

At Microsoft Build, you’ll leave a better developer than when you arrived. It’s where you can solve challenges, meet the engineers behind the Microsoft platforms you use every day, and connect with a diverse group of coders who want to hone their skills.

Learn the tools and technologies that help you create solutions you can build today. Explore new developer technologies and techniques that will drive your vision and expand your toolkit. Bring your technical questions and imagination and leave with new knowledge and skills.
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Whether you are a student or an experienced app developer, it promises technical sessions, various experts, product round-tables, One-on-One consultations and other engaging activities to learn.

Happy connecting!

Microsoft WebView2 – A new friend for native apps!

March 7, 2021May 9, 2021Sandeep Mewara Leave a comment

Now, we can embed web content (HTML, CSS, and JavaScript) in our native applications with Microsoft Edge WebView2. Earlier, it was announced only for Win32 C/C++ apps but later, it was announced available for use in .NET 5, .NET Core, and .NET Framework Windows Forms and WPF applications.

It uses the modern Microsoft Edge (Chromium) platform to host web content within native Windows applications.

In the future, the Evergreen WebView2 Runtime plans to ship with future releases of Windows. Deploy the Runtime with your production app until the Runtime becomes more universally available.
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Power of Native

With growing presence of online world, desktop applications are pushed to use more of online like capabilities. Further, web solution also helps reuse most of the code across different platforms and easy change delivery. This is leading desktop applications more and more towards hybrid approach where best of both (native and web) can be leveraged.

Microsoft WebView2 comes to rescue. It helps build powerful applications with controlled access to native capabilities.

WebView2 uses the same process model as the Microsoft Edge browser. A browser process is associated with only one user data folder. A request process that specifies more than one user data folder is associated with the same number of browser processes.

More details about browser process model can be read here.

WebView2 apps create a user data folder to store data such as cookies, credentials, permissions, and so on. After creating the folder, your app is responsible for managing the lifetime of the user data folder, including clean up when the app is uninstalled
Microsoft – Managing user data folder

Microsoft has laid here some best practices for developing secure WebView2 application.

Distribution

When distributing your WebView2 app, ensure the backing web platform, the WebView2 Runtime, is present before the app starts.

By default, WebView2 is evergreen and receives automatic updates to stay on the latest and most secure platform.

Evergreen Bootstrapper – a tiny installer that downloads the Evergreen Runtime matching device architecture and installs it locally.
Evergreen Standalone Installer – a full-blown installer that can install the Evergreen Runtime in offline environment.
Fixed Version – to select and package a specific version of the WebView2 Runtime with your application.

The WebView2 Runtime is a redistributable runtime and serves as the backing web platform for WebView2 apps.

Download the runtime from here. Supported platforms are mentioned here.

Sample Application

I built a sample WPF application (runs on .NET Framework and not Core) to try WebView2. This was to evaluate how comparatively older .NET applications would work out.

I tried to display my blog in the WPF application using a WebView2 control. Sample application had capabilities to post message to host application and back as well as hook events as per need.

public MainWindow()
{
    InitializeComponent();

    // NavigationEvents
    webView.NavigationStarting += WebView_NavigationStarting; ;
    webView.SourceChanged += WebView_SourceChanged;
    webView.ContentLoading += WebView_ContentLoading;
    webView.NavigationCompleted += WebView_NavigationCompleted;

    // Embedded at CoreWebView2 level
    InitializeOnceCoreWebView2Intialized();
}

/// <summary>
/// initialization of CoreWebView2 is asynchronous.
/// </summary>
async private void InitializeOnceCoreWebView2Intialized()
{
    await webView.EnsureCoreWebView2Async(null);

    // Hook other events
    webView.CoreWebView2.FrameNavigationStarting += CoreWebView2_FrameNavigationStarting;
    webView.CoreWebView2.HistoryChanged += CoreWebView2_HistoryChanged;

    // For communication host to webview & vice versa
    webView.CoreWebView2.WebMessageReceived += CoreWebView2_WebMessageReceived;
    await webView.CoreWebView2.AddScriptToExecuteOnDocumentCreatedAsync("window.chrome.webview.postMessage(window.document.URL);");
    await webView.CoreWebView2.AddScriptToExecuteOnDocumentCreatedAsync("window.chrome.webview.addEventListener(\'message\', event => alert(\'Message from App to WebView2 on navigation!\'));");
}

/// <summary>
/// Web content in a WebView2 control may post a message to the host 
/// </summary>
/// <param name="sender"></param>
/// <param name="e"></param>
private void CoreWebView2_WebMessageReceived(object sender, CoreWebView2WebMessageReceivedEventArgs e)
{
    // Retrieve message from Webview2
    String uri = e.TryGetWebMessageAsString();
    addressBar.Text = uri;

    // Send message to Webview2
    webView.CoreWebView2.PostWebMessageAsString(uri);
    log.Content = $"Address bar updated ({uri}) based on WebView2 message!";
}

/// <summary>
/// Execute URL
/// </summary>
/// <param name="sender"></param>
/// <param name="e"></param>
private void ButtonGo_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
{
    try
    {
        Uri uri = new Uri(addressBar.Text);

        if (webView != null && webView.CoreWebView2 != null)
        {
            webView.CoreWebView2.Navigate(uri.OriginalString);
        }
    }
    catch (UriFormatException)
    {
        MessageBox.Show("Please enter correct format of url!");
    }
}

/// <summary>
/// Allow only HTTPS calls
/// WebView2 starts to navigate and the navigation results in a network request. 
/// The host may disallow the request during the event.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="sender"></param>
/// <param name="e"></param>
private void WebView_NavigationStarting(object sender, CoreWebView2NavigationStartingEventArgs e)
{
    String uri = e.Uri;
    if (!uri.StartsWith("https://"))
    {
        e.Cancel = true;
        //MessageBox.Show("Only HTTPS allowed!");

        // Inject JavaScript code into WebView2 controls at runtime
        webView.CoreWebView2.ExecuteScriptAsync($"alert('{uri} is not safe, try an https link please.')");
    }
}

Various events run when specific asynchronous actions occur to the content displayed in a WebView2 instance.

`NavigationStarting`	WebView2 starts to navigate and the navigation results in a network request. The host may disallow the request during the event.
`SourceChanged`	The source of WebView2 changes to a new URL. The event may result from a navigation action that does not cause a network request such as a fragment navigation.
`ContentLoading`	WebView starts loading content for the new page.
`HistoryChanged`	The navigation causes the history of WebView2 to update.
`NavigationCompleted`	WebView2 completes loading content on the new page.
`ProcessFailed`	To react to crashes and hangs in the browser and renderer processes
`Close`	To safely shut down associated browser and renderer processes

Key events

Working with the sample application, I was able to display a webpage, intercept calls both ways and embed message/code to my need. It provides all the capabilities that seems to be needed for a stable web app display control.

Complete sample application can be downloaded from here: https://github.com/sandeep-mewara/WebView2WpfBrowserApp

Reference

https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/webview2/
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/webview2/gettingstarted/wpf
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/webview2/concepts/distribution

Microsoft AI support for COVID-19

November 29, 2020November 29, 2020Sandeep Mewara Leave a comment

In January 2020, Microsoft launched AI for Health program. Goal is to use Artificial Intelligence (AI) and data to help improve the health of people worldwide. Post COVID-19 hit world wide, Microsoft took steps to support & empower researchers, nonprofits and policymakers with resources.

There have been more than 50 million confirmed cases of Covid-19 and more than 1.25 million deaths globally
World Health Organization

Research has accelerated with large-scale computing and open data.

Highlights from Grantees World wide

ai-health-covid-response — Credit: Microsoft

As shared here, few of them are:

A grassroots employee volunteer effort at Belgian biopharmaceutical company UCB.
UC Riverside researchers utilize quantum-based methods to more accurately predict the effectiveness of proposed Covid-19 inhibitors.
IHME, a global health research organization at the University of Washington School of Medicine, forecasts the Covid-19 pandemic.
Professor Amanda Randles at Duke University is conducting hundreds of millions of simulations required to help more patients have access to critical ventilators.

Partnership with Organizations

As shared here, few of them are:

Partnering with the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy’s (OSTP) High Performance Computing Consortium to support researchers and academia.
Working with Brown University’s School of Public Health and the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard to visualize a common set of measures on testing and risk levels to help everyone know where we are with the pandemic and help policymakers guide their response.
Joining University of Oxford and their Government Response Tracker initiative to track and compare government and policy responses to address Covid-19 around the world.

The rapid progress means researchers can more quickly identify potential solutions to combat Covid-19 and provide timely information to policymakers for data-driven decisions that protect communities, cities and regions.
Microsoft blog

Public Information

Using publicly available information from partners, Microsoft have created:

a number of interactive visualizations to provide transparency into Covid-19 trends globally.
a unique measure called Progress to Zero to help everyone understand, progress in reducing Covid-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths.

My Take

There are some great work being done world wide to fight Covid-19 in all possible ways. Organizations like Microsoft are making an active effort to help partners and grantees for Covid-19 response. There is much to do and supports like these will help mankind avert Pandemic.

Keep exploring!

Microsoft .NET 5 – all you need to know

November 21, 2020March 6, 2021Sandeep Mewara Leave a comment

As announced earlier, Microsoft released .NET 5 on Nov. 10 during .NET Conf 2020. It’s a major release with many new features and improvements to .NET Core 3. Keeping cross platform support and open source development as key base, going forward it kind of merges off .NET Framework and .NET Core.

Plan

Microsoft started it’s journey of cross platform and open source in 2015. .NET 5 is a major milestone of this transition as .NET Framework 4.8 was the last major version of .NET Framework. Microsoft published a blog to explain how .NET 5 relates to .NET Framework.

.NET 5.0 is the main implementation of .NET going forward and .NET Framework 4.x is still supported.

.NET 5 has been called as .NET Core vNext for quite some time now. It has following key principles:

– Produce a single .NET runtime and framework that can be used everywhere and that has uniform runtime behaviors and developer experiences.
– Expand the capabilities of .NET by taking the best of .NET Core, .NET Framework, Xamarin and Mono.
– Build that product out of a single code-base that developers (Microsoft and the community) can work on and expand together and that improves all scenarios.
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Highlights

There are many improvements in .NET 5 like:

Performance across many components
Performance in .NET Libraries
Language C# 9 & F# 5
Application deployment options
Platform scope (includes Windows Arm64 & WebAssembly)

Details about these enhancements are here.

dot.net and Bing.com are already running on .NET 5 for months now

References

What’s new in .NET 5, the next major release of .NET Core following 3.1
Download .NET 5.0 installers and binaries, for Windows, macOS, and Linux, for x86, x64, Arm32, Arm64
Container images, all .NET Docker images
.NET 5.0 Examples to learn more about new C# 9 and libraries features
- C# 9 updates
- F# 5 updates
Linux packages with Install instructions
Release notes, .NET 5.0.0 – November 10, 2020
.NET 5 known issues that can be encountered during usage
GitHub issue tracker to report any issues found with .NET 5

IDE

You need Visual Studio 16.8 or later to use .NET 5.0 on Windows and the latest version of Visual Studio for Mac on macOS. Latest C# extension for Visual Studio Code already supports .NET 5.0 and C# 9.

Impacts

There are few breaking changes with upgrade to .NET 5:

while migrating from version 3.1 of .NET Core, ASP.NET Core, or EF Core to version 5.0 of .NET, ASP.NET Core, or EF Core are captured here.
in Roslyn in C# 9.0 introduced with .NET 5 are captured here.
for migration from .NET Framework to .NET Core are captured here.
obsolete features in .NET 5 are captured here.

Deprecated

.NET 5 does not have few of the known technologies:

ASP.NET WebForms – Microsoft’s recommendation is to move to Blazor
Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) – Microsoft’s recommendation is to use gRPC
Windows Workflow Foundation (WWF) – recommendation is to look at CoreWF, a form of WF runtime

Advantages

.NET 5 helps if you have cross-platform needs or targeting microservices or want to use Docker containers. Based on how it is setup underlying, it helps in designing high-performance and scalable systems.

.NET 5 supports side-by-side installation of different versions of the .NET 5 runtime on the same machine. This allows multiple services or applications on the same server running on their own version of .NET 5 variant.

A detailed analysis and shareout can be read here.

Wrap Up

.NET 5 is a major step of the .NET journey planned ahead. Next would be .NET 6 next year (late in 2021), which will also be a long term (multi year) supported (LTS) version.

Microsoft is working towards a defined vision – same .NET API and languages working across operating system, application types and architectures.

With active support to previous .NET versions, we have time to assess, plan and adapt the new path.

Keep exploring!

POC Guide for Developers by Microsoft

November 7, 2020November 7, 2020Sandeep Mewara Leave a comment

Few weeks back, Microsoft Azure published a white paper about a Proof Of Concept (POC) guide for developers. Intent of the paper is to share what POC is and how it would help minimize risk and reduce cost while exploring new technology or an idea.

Guide uses Azure application as an example on how to create and execute a POC.

POC guide can be downloaded from here.

Brief Overview

Guide touch-bases and share details around:

POC Introduction
Steps of a POC
Example 1: Sample Azure web app
Example 2: Sample Azure chatbot

Additionally, it covers overview of Azure and where to find interactive learning path for beginners. It also shares additional resources that can help develop an Azure based application.

What is Proof of Concept?

Proof of concept (POC) is validating an idea or a concept about it’s feasibility, capability and provides helpful insights. They are scoped to limited features and are generally done in a quick and dirty manner to acquire some metrics.

A proof of concept is an important first step in cultivating business innovations.

How to prepare for and start your POC?

We can get a good POC following a defined set of basic steps:

Defining a goal with success criteria
Setting up a timeline and cost boundaries
Scoping the feature(s) for the POC
Designing, Implementing & Testing
Measure metrics to deduce insights
Take decisions based on the insights

Closing Thoughts

POCs are great way to validate an idea or a technology or a concept. With it, we can take a data back decision for a project that would reduce risk, provide a higher success probability and a conscious cost decision. It also help gauge probable next steps needed once adopted as a mainstream solution.

Provided document is a nice compile and provides a systematic approach for building a POC. With couple of examples, it demonstrates the steps in action. Definitely worth a read.

Don’t ever shy away from building and using a POC to explore and learn.

Keep exploring!

Learn AI ML with Netflix’s Fei Fei!

November 1, 2020November 1, 2020Sandeep Mewara Leave a comment

Off late, Microsoft has been working on providing more and more learning materials. This is as per their Global Skills Initiative aimed at helping 25 million people worldwide acquire new digital skills.

Our goal is to ignite the passion to solve important problems relevant to their lives, families and communities.
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Last week, they partnered with Netflix to release a new learning experience featuring a young female hero Fei Fei, who has a passion for science and explores space.

Newly launched

Microsoft has launched three new modules under Explore Space with “Over the Moon” learning path. These modules will help learn basic concepts of data science, artificial intelligence and machine learning:

Plan a Moon Mission using the Python Pandas Library
Predict Meteor Showers using Python and VC Code
Use AI to Recognize Objects in Images using Azure Custom Vision

The movie’s story takes place in a beautifully animated universe and tackles problems real-life space engineers face.

How is it?

They cover the basic workflow of a machine learning problem similar to what I shared in my previous article here.

Exercises also provide a professional experience as they are built on Visual Studio Code and use Azure Cognitive Services.

Looking at it, seems a fun way to learn and explore the data world. Microsoft is really trying to make things simple and available to all. An effort worth to try out. Would recommend and ask to give it a shot.

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Learn Microsoft Tech via Videos & Live Streams

October 17, 2020October 18, 2020Sandeep Mewara Leave a comment

Recently, Microsoft has invested and made extra efforts into putting up the resources to learn.

Recordings …

This September, Microsoft launched Video Hub, a new resource home for Tech Community Videos and Interactive Guides to help learn everything about major Microsoft products.

Access: Microsoft Tech Community Video Hub

Live …

Yesterday (Mid October), Microsoft launched .NET Live TV, a one stop shop for all .NET and Visual Studio Live Streams across Twitch and YouTube.

To view, visit: .NET Live TV

Sometime back, Microsoft launched Learn TV. It is a place to find the latest digital content to be updated on the latest announcements, features, and products from Microsoft.

To view, visit: Learn TV

Discover your path …

As shared on the Microsoft’s Learning site, irrespective of which stage you are in your carrier – a fresher or an experience professional, material can help learn hands on and gain confidence faster.

You can choose topics, learn at your own schedule and even do Microsoft based certifications. It even has suggestions and ratings for popular topics to guide further.

Explore: Microsoft Learn

Well, seems knowledge is all there and pretty organized for the taking.

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Microsoft .NET Conference 2020

September 13, 2020September 25, 2020Sandeep Mewara Leave a comment

.NET Conf 2020 is a free virtual developer event organized by the .NET Community and Microsoft. I came across discussion if I am interested in speaking at the event as the call for content is now open.

The conference showcases the .NET platform for developers focusing on desktop, mobile, web, IoT, games, cloud and open source projects. Read details about the event here: .NET Conf 2020

If you feel interested, you don’t need to register for it. Just keep track of the dates and attend event session live here.

This year .NET 5.0 will launch at .NET Conf 2020! Come celebrate and learn about the new release. We’re also celebrating our 10th anniversary and we’re working on a few more surprises.
Event highlight shared by .NET foundation

There would be live sessions by speakers from the community and .NET team members. One can ask questions live on Twitter, join the fun on Twitch and attend the virtual attendee parties. It would help know whats happening and upcoming in the .NET world.

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Harness your voice using Transcribe in Word

September 5, 2020September 25, 2020Sandeep Mewara Leave a comment

A new enhancement in Microsoft Office 365’s Word for the web – Transcribe in Word. It leverages the Azure Cognitive Services AI platform.

Transcribe converts speech (recorded directly in Word or from an uploaded audio file) to a text transcript with each speaker individually separated.

We can record our conversations directly in Word for the web and it transcribes them automatically with each speaker identified separately. Transcript will appear alongside the Word document, along with the recording.

For now, English (EN-US) is the only language supported for transcribe audio

Once the recording is finished, we can:

easily follow the flow of the transcript
revisit parts of the recording by playing back the time-stamped audio
edit the transcript for any corrections or if we see something amiss
save the full transcript as a Word document

How to use it?

Transcribe in Word is already available in Word for the web for all Microsoft 365 subscribers. Usage wise, it is completely unlimited to record and transcribe within Word for the Web.

There is a five hour limit per month for uploaded recordings and each uploaded recording is limited to 200mb.

Real life applications …

It has multiple values in different aspects of usage:

would be much easier to concentrate in meetings & discussions if doing multitask affects (taking notes during discussion)
provide important quotes with others in quick time
summarize the meeting based on key topics identified
- Minutes of meetings
- Key notes
opens up potential for NLP world (AI) in future
- access patterns particular speakers on how they speak, use specific words, provide feedback
- access questions and their response, act specifically
- improve auto corrections

Wrap Up

Seems like a nice move by Microsoft, to cover more than one aspect where it can help. Worth a feature to try out and see how it works and helps.

Reference: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/2020/08/25/microsoft-365-transcription-voice-commands-word/

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