Build 2013Event Pre-Briefing

Tim O’BrienGM, Developer & Platform EvangelismMicrosoft @_TimOBrien

Goals for Today

Frame our core platform strategy

Set context for Build this week

Answer questions

Devices

Services

device/service

client/server

devices

Developing for Windows 8

Touch-first experience

Integrated store

Existing skills, code

Apps

XAMLC

C++C#

Visual Basic

HTML

JavaScript

WinRTWindows 8

Developing for Windows 8

Windows 8 in the EnterpriseForrester

12%26%

12%5%

2%32%

Current work tablet

Desired next work tablet

200 million global information workers would like to use a Microsoft Windows tablet for work

Shared core with Windows 8

Common programming model

Skills portability

Consistent user experience

Differentiated Apps *Cross-platform gaming available with select titles and requires compatible devices

Live Tiles

Live Lock Screen

Lens Apps

Integrated Wallet

Xbox Games*

Experiences across devices

services

300+ petabytes of data

400 millionactive email accounts

250 millionactive customers

200+ servicesonline 24x7

2 billionminutes per day

Windows in the cloud

public cloud

private cloud

hybrid cloud

.NET

Hyper-V

Visual Studio

System Center

Active Directory

Blob storage

Caching

Tables Identity

Media

Service bus

HDInsight

Traffic

Networking

CDN

Integration

Analytics

Open Platform

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Programming skillsDevelopment tools

Languages, frameworksComponents

Runtimes

Great device experiences …

… powered by services in the cloud

Q&A

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