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Discussion
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@altryne
Alex Volkov
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BREAKING: @satyanadella just announced a Dev ready windows, including ZSH, intelligent terminal (hello @warpdotdev) and Homebrew on windows + WSL native containers 📦 during $MSFT BUILD This will all make the new RTX Spark machines running local AI loads. [image]
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@tomwarren
Tom Warren
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Microsoft's new developer-optimized Windows experience embraces Linux even more. Microsoft has created Coreutils for Windows from the uutils open-source project, and is launching new WSL containers in a bid to make Windows a trusted platform for devs👇 https://www.theverge.com/...
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@caseynewton
Casey Newton
on bluesky
Help, I'm trapped in the Microsoft Execution Container and the walls are closing in [embedded post]
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@film_girl
Christina Warren
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Project Solara is about 3 things: * Being enterprise ready * JIT UI that adapts to the form factor * Extstensible so you can bring your own agent But enough of that, onto the devices!
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@tomwarren
Tom Warren
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Microsoft's Project Solara is an OS for AI agent gadgets. The company showed off two devices at Build: a desk concept and a badge concept. Details 👇 https://www.theverge.com/...
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@film_girl
Christina Warren
on x
The first device for Project Solara is a desk device concept, powered by a MediaTek SoC that can basically be an ambient always-on, always-available device that can handle your agents for you.
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@donasarkar
Dona Sarkar
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I actually like this badgey thing. This can be SUPER useful for retail popups and a whole bunch of stuff in the service industry like bars, restaurants etc. #MSBuild [image]
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@microsoft
@microsoft
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Introducing Project Solara, a new platform built from the ground up to power agent-driven experiences, including two new concept devices that reimagine how this comes to life. Together, these updates simplify how you set up, build, and run across environments, bringing everything…
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@cristianoamon
Cristiano R. Amon
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We're shifting from apps and operating systems to agents, and that changes the device experience end to end. Great conversation with @satyanadella on what comes next. Watch our discussion from #MSBuild. Read the OnQ blog post for more. https://www.qualcomm.com/... [video]
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@mweinbach
Max Weinbach
on x
Microsoft Project Solara seems really cool. Platform to build unified agents on any hardware type [image]
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@microsoft
@microsoft
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What changes when agents become both a new unit of programming and an emerging new unit of human-to-machine interaction? The mission of Project Solara, a new software platform coupled with tailored hardware solutions, is to pioneer agent-first experiences that are shaped around […
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@film_girl
Christina Warren
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Best Buy, CVS, Target and others are already exploring ideas with Project Solara! Now we're rolling a Qualcomm video in the device lab showing off some of the reference designs
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@mweinbach
Max Weinbach
on x
I like Solara because I wrote this a few months ago that dedicated devices don't make sense, use what we have and have the agents adapt to you and what you want to use/use already [image]
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@tomwarren
Tom Warren
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will be interesting to see where Microsoft goes with Project Solara. It has tried and failed to build platforms for many devices in the past - Band, Cortana devices, Windows Phone, the list goes on. This time it's using a version of Android, anticipating future AI agent hardware …
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@markhachman
Mark Hachman
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Project Solara by Microsoft appears to be Microsoft's entry into smart devices, one for the desk, powered by Mediatek and Qualcomm. “Think of it as a secure ambient device for work.”
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@film_girl
Christina Warren
on x
Steve is on stage talking about Project Solara and he's asking “what's the form factor?” what will the form factors be of the computer. “The next computer isn't one device, it's all devices working together as one system.”
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@xenopanther
Xeno
on x
Coreutils coming to Windows! [image]
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@bdsams
Brad Sams
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This is the first time, in several years at Build, that Windows has a future.
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@mweinbach
Max Weinbach
on x
Wow, Microsoft is really working on Windows to make it just so much more dev and AI agent friendly Fantastic! https://www.youtube.com/...
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@windowsdev
@windowsdev
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Unmetered intelligence delivered on Windows with new on-device SLMs, Aion 1.0 Instruct and Aion 1.0 Plan, and the expansion of Windows AI APIs to more Windows 11 PCs across CPUs and GPUs 🧠 #MSBuild See how we are helping accelerate local AI development: https://blogs.windows.com/…
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Pavan Davuluri
Pavan Davuluri
on linkedin
Energized to be back at Build with the developer community and share what we have been building. Today, we're introducing new Windows capabilities designed …
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@bradshoemaker
Brad Shoemaker
on bluesky
Dave Cutler is spinning in his grave. — github.com/microsoft/co...
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@uutils@mastodon.social
@uutils@mastodon.social
on mastodon
Exciting to see Microsoft using uutils as the basis for Coreutils for Windows. — https://github.com/... https://www.theverge.com/... Bringing cross-platform, Rust-based coreutils to more developers is exactly why this project exists: familiar Unix tools, native performance, a…
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@github
@github
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The next frontier of agentic development is here, and you are in control. Today we announced releases that will keep you in the flow with your agents, all on the GitHub platform. ⬇️ [image]
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@github
@github
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The GitHub Copilot app, an agent-native desktop experience built on GitHub, is now in an expanded technical preview. 🧑🍳 You decide what agents tackle, how much autonomy each agent gets, and what ships. Go from issue to merged pull request without leaving the app. [video]
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@orenme
Oren Melamed
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The GitHub Copilot app is now available for more people, good time to try it I'm learning new things every day, for example the way it renders the plan with updates is absolutly beutiful! [image]
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Luke Hoban
Luke Hoban
on linkedin
I've been excited about many of the things we've shipped over the last year, across GitHub Copilot CLI, SDK, Cloud Agents, and more. …