>> Welcome back to another episode of this week on Channel Nine.
I'm your host, Christina Warren,
Senior Cloud Advocate and it's
Halloween as I film this episode, so happy Halloween.
I almost decided to dress up as Elizabeth Holmes,
but I just didn't think that I could pull off the blonde wig.
So instead, I am dressed up as a Game Boy Color
and a classic Game Boy, right?
So cool, right? I love it.
My favorite console, so I wanted to be it for Halloween.
Okay, but enough of all that,
let's get into this week's latest developer news.
So first up, we're just days away from
Microsoft Ignite taking place in Orlando Florida,
November 4th through the 8th.
You can expect tons of great developer and
IT pro content as well as a bunch of news,
but if you can't be with us in Florida,
we will be streaming sessions online,
and all of the content from the show will also be
available after Ignite ends.
I'm going to be there along
with lots of your Channel Nine favorites.
So if you see me in a session,
or at the booths, or onstage,
please be sure to say hello.
Right after Microsoft Ignite,
we're kicking off the first stop of Microsoft Ignite The Tour.
This year, Microsoft Ignite The Tour will be in 30 cities around
the globe delivering great developer
content to developers and IT professionals.
So I'm going to be at the first stop which is in Paris,
so please say bonjour if you see me there.
You can get all the details on
Microsoft Ignite and Microsoft Ignite
The Tour in the links and the show
notes in the description down below.
Now speaking of Ignite,
the Edge Team will be at
Microsoft Ignite and they've actually posted a list of
breakout in theater sessions
that their team will be hosting or participating in.
So if you want to get more details on
the latest news coming from the Microsoft Edge browser team,
be sure to check out that post,
and I've added a link to it in
the show notes in the description down below as well.
Coming up next, TensorFlow 2.0 was recently
released and we discussed that a couple of weeks back.
The Machine Learning Team at Azure,
has posted a new blog post on how you can use TensorFlow 2.0 in
Azure to fine tune
a B-E-R-T or Bert model for automatically tagging questions.
So that's really great. TensorFlow 2.0 is actually integrated with
the Azure Machine Learning Services to make
TensorFlow workloads in Azure as seamless as possible.
So check out the links in the description down below for
a look at that blog post and demos on what you can do with this.
In some command line news,
the latest release of the Windows Terminal was
released last week and it is awesome.
Some of the big things is the UI receiving update,
and so tabs now look a lot better.
There are also now dynamic profiles that will detect
what WSDL or PowerShell Core installs you have on your machine,
and there are a bunch of bug fixes too.
If you're not familiar,
the new Windows Terminal is still in preview,
but it is getting better all the time.
So I've got to link in the show notes in
the description to the blog post announcing the new release,
the download in the Microsoft store, and the GitHub repo.
Also, I'd want to note that I will be doing
a live session onstage at Microsoft Ignite live with
Brian Benz focused on how you can trick out the Windows Terminal
to fit your workflow and aesthetic needs.
So be sure you come see us,
or check out the video once it goes live on YouTube.
In some WSL 2 news,
Craig Lohan on the team just posted
a new video of a new feature in WSL 2 in
the latest Windows insider preview
build 19013, memory reclamation.
In the past, if a WSL 2 VM needed more memory,
it would grow but it wouldn't get
released back to the host when you are done.
That can be kind of annoying especially if you manage to
use lots of memory in your WSL install.
But now, when memory in Linux is no longer needed,
it can be reported back to the host and freed up,
which will shrink the size of your WSL 2 VM.
So Craig has more details in his blog post and a video post,
and I've linked to both of those in the show notes down below.
Speaking of WSL 2,
last week Mark [inaudible] posted a really great tip on how
you can share SSH keys between Windows and WSL 2.
This is something that I've struggled with as well,
and so I was really excited to see
some solution which I've linked
in the show notes in the description down below.
In some PowerToys news,
PowerToys v0.12 was just
released to GitHub taking a great feedback from the community.
So if you're not familiar,
PowerToys is a new open source rebirth of
the old Windows '95 era PowerToys project.
It adds lots of little utilities or
toys for power users. It's really terrific.
Some new highlights in the new version
include a new power renamed utility,
which lets you do batch renaming of files- love
it- and there are also some improvements
to the fancy zone Windows Manager.
So I've got links to the PowerToys blog,
and the GitHub repo down below.
Some Java news, Microsoft has formally signed
the Oracle Contributor Agreement and
are ready and excited to contribute you OpenJDK.
For anybody who's been following Java since the beginning,
this is what we might say is kind of
a historic moment, and it's great.
So congratulations to the Java engineers,
and let's see what we can give back to OpenJDK.
On Channel Nine this week, we had lots of great content.
First step on the cloud native show,
Shane talks about the Azure app configuration,
and then over on Visual Studio toolbox,
we've got a new Visual Studio for Mac guide for
improving productivity for.NetCore developers.
Finally, on Data Exposed, Mark Russinovich,
talks about Azure SWL Database Edge, hyperscale and beyond.
I always love listening to Mark talk tech.
Now it's time for my pick of the week.
So, this is where I admit that I'm actually a pretty bad driver.
I don't even have a driver's license.
I mean, I used to live in New York City,
so who needs to drive.
Also, it's better for everyone if I don't.
I've always blamed part of this on the anxiety that I
got during my driver's test when I was like 16 or 17.
So I had to chuckle when I saw
this new app developed by Microsoft Research in
India that will administer
a driving test without an instructor having be present.
It's really cool and I'll link to the Microsoft Research site.
The video that shows
this off as well as [inaudible] beautiful [inaudible].
How do you feel about driving tech?
Self-driving or otherwise?
Let me know in the comments and feel free to
also comment on any of the other stories on this week's show.
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Happy Halloween, everyone. See you at Ignite.
I'm off to play some GameBoy.
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