Today Microsoft kicked off day one of their three day long event, Microsoft Build, with a lot of fanfare. There was code. Lots and lots of code. After all, it is a developer event.

You can tune in to watch the livestream and watch recorded footage from the event here, but we’ve condensed some of the biggest takeaways from today in a digestible format below.

Windows 10’s A-Comin’

According to Microsoft, they expect to see Windows 10 on at least 1 billion devices in the next 2-3 years. Providing current users of Windows 7, 8 and 8.1 will certainly be helping to make this possible.

Visual Studio 2015 Will Work Across Platforms

Why should you be excited about Visual Studio 2015 Because it will allow developers to write cross-platform applications and supports Universal Apps that will run on Windows 10 devices, whether they’re phones, PC’s, Xbox’s, tablets and HoloLens. Synchronicity is the game on Windows 10.

Goodbye Internet Explorer, Hello Microsoft Edge

 

At Build, one of the most exciting opportunities was the hundreds of HoloLens devices for developers to test out and see just how real the tech is. We also found out today that Unity is not just for Oculus, but will also be able to build games for the HoloLens as well. How cool is that

And this too:

 

We remain absolutely excited to see what the future holds for this device.

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