Well! the moment we had been waiting for the inaugural Microsoft Ignite conference in Chicago this week arrived today. Whilst the event was a sell-out with approx. 23,000 attendees, I had the pleasure of tuning into MSDN Channel 9 for the keynote on what was a UK bank holiday weekend!

Prior to the keynote broadcast, there was a pre-keynote show with Joey Snow, visiting the demo rooms by Brad Anderson and featuring few eye catching tweets, which coincidentally one of them was mine!

Below are few screenshots from the keynote that was delivered by Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella outlining the strategic direction and some big announcements.

1. Create more personal computing

2.Reinvent Productivity & Business Processes

– Office 2016 new public preview
– Skype for Business Broadcasting
– Office Delve Organisational Analytics

3. Build the Intelligent Cloud

– Windows Server and Systems Center 2016
– SQL Server 2016
– Azure Stack
– Operations Management Suite
– Advanced Threat Analytics

Cortana answering business data questions with PowerBI

Joe Belfiore demonstrating the universal app switching between mobile device and desktop applications.

Windows 10 demonstration with face recognition login.

Windows 10 File encryption options at point of saving the document.

File explorer with encrypted documents.

Hopefully you have the flavour of the keynote and announcements from MS Ignite conference and no doubt there will be plenty of content coming our way to consume!

The full keynote recording can be found at Channel 9 video channel.

Enjoy!
Chirag Patel @techChirag

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Chirag is an independent Microsoft 365 consultant at Patel Consulting, and Microsoft MVP (Office & Apps Services), based in UK with more than 20 years of industry experience. He is also a BCS (British Computer Society) Member & Chartered IT Professional, Microsoft 365 Certified Enterprise Administrator Expert, MCT (Microsoft Certified Trainer) and TOGAF9 Certified Architect. He works with a wide variety of clients in many sectors, designing and implementing business collaboration, data and information management solutions and services based on Microsoft Teams, SharePoint and Microsoft 365 technologies, Power Platform to create business value for both themselves and their customers, including UK Microsoft Gold Partners with deployment, upgrade and migration services delivery. Chirag is an active Microsoft 365 community participant, frequent speaker at local and international events including Microsoft 365 Saturdays, Power Saturdays, SharePoint Saturdays, Collab365, TeamsFest, Modern Workplace Summit and Scottish Summit. You can follow Chirag on twitter at @techChirag. View all posts by Chirag Patel @techChirag