Microsoft BUILD 2024 Recap 🔨
As previously mentioned, Microsoft Build is a yearly developer conference in Seattle where Microsoft announces new technologies and services.
Today, I want to quickly recap what Microsoft announced and how I think it will impact our work as software developers.
File Explorer Integration with Git
Microsoft announced a new native Git version control integration into the Windows File Explorer.
We can see Git information, such as the last commit date or the last commit message, directly from inside the File Explorer.
As software developers, we probably have our tool belt with a CLI and a GUI for working with Git. However, I can see that this integration is making Git more approachable for other users.
Microsoft Edge Translates YouTube Videos Live
The Edge browser will get an AI-powered real-time video translation feature.
It can generate text from spoken words on YouTube, LinkedIn, Reuters, and Coursera videos.
In the beginning, it understands English and Spanish and can translate live into German, Hindi, Italian, and Russian.
The feature isn’t available yet, but Microsoft said it will be available soon.
I strongly believe that in the future, we will be able to watch any video in any language and have an instant live translation into whatever language we want.
In the first step, it will be limited to text, but I can also see a future where we will get an AI voice to speak over the parts in the video in the language we want.
AI-powered Clipboard in PowerToys
A new Advanced Paste feature is available as part of the PowerToys suite for Windows 11.
Using Windows Key + SHIFT + V you can access the Advanced Paste feature and convert the clipboard content into Markdown, JSON, or plain text.
Other options include a summarization of the content in the clipboard before pasting it.
To enable this feature, you will need an OpenAI API Key and credits in your OpenAI account, meaning this service isn’t free.
I think that it could be a powerful feature for certain tasks. If you can save a few hours, why not? But I do think that ChatGPT offers a similar feature set, and it is approachable to us developers.
There are many more announcements. However, I don’t think the hardware-related announcements are important to us .NET developers. Feel free to explore the other topics yourself.
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