>> Welcome back to
another edition of This Week on Channel 9.
I'm your host, Christina Warren,
Senior Cloud Developer Advocate.
And if everything goes as planned,
this will be my last week in a cast.
I'm so excited.
Also, this is my weekly reminder that Seattle drivers,
please look out for pedestrians.
Okay. Let's get into this week's top news.
First up, as we told you last week,
registration for Microsoft Build is now live.
Build will be taking place in
Seattle from May 7th to 9th,
2018 and I'll be there,
many of your Channel 9 favorites will be there,
so you should be there too.
Register now because tickets go fast.
And if you see me, please say hello.
Next up is some exciting news for anyone
working in or with the Startup Ecosystem.
Microsoft has just launched Microsoft for Startups,
a new program that delivers access
to technology and community benefits to Startups.
Microsoft is committing $500 million
over two years to offer
joint sales engagement with Startups,
along with access to our tech and new community spaces.
In another life, I actually reported
on Startups and I've even worked at a few.
And so, this is near and dear to my heart,
and it's something that's great to see.
For Windows 10 Insiders,
a new Insider Preview Build
17101 is available on the Fast Ring.
And for those who've opted to skip ahead,
you can access Build 17604.
Up until this week, Insiders who opted in to skip ahead,
previously were receiving the same RS4
Build as Insiders in the Fast Ring.
And skip ahead were turned off.
And so, many Insiders remain and skip ahead since
joining into the beginning
of RS4, which is the latest release.
Starting now, Windows Insiders who opted
into skip ahead will now start
receiving new builds for RS5,
which is our next Windows 10 release.
These builds will come from the RS pre-release branch.
Check out the blog post for some
of the new stuff in the Builds.
The improved emojis are most
definitely my favorite support.
Since the demise of groove music and let's
take a moment of silence, that was enough,
we've seen a bunch of other native music options crop
up for Windows 10,
including Spotify in the Microsoft Store and for Xbox.
Now, music lovers have another option from Amazon.
Amazon Music is now available for
Windows 10 and the app looks amazing.
It's available in the Microsoft Store,
and it works with both Prime Music
and Amazon Music Unlimited.
Next up, in security news,
Windows Analytics now helps
assess Meltdown and Spectre protections.
And like we've discussed last month,
the Meltdown and Spectre exploits are nasty.
And plenty of IT pros have
questions about how they can best
find out if their Windows devices
in Enterprise are affected.
And it can be hard because
in addition to the software updates,
hardware needs firmware updates,
and antivirus software needs to be
compatible too. To help I.T.
professionals everywhere, we've added new capabilities to
our free Windows Analytics service to
report the status for all
Windows devices that they manage.
And these new capabilities include Antivirus status,
Windows Operating System Security update status,
and far more status, and it's all in one dashboard.
Next up, one of the coolest parts of
the Microsoft Cognitive Services is Bing's Speech API,
which lets you do text to speech stuff.
And, the Bing's Speech API has now been
extended to support new languages for text to speech,
bringing the total up to 34,
and some of these new languages
include Bulgarian, Croatian,
Malaysia, Slovenian, Tamil and Vietnamese.
Powered by the latest AI technology,
these 34 languages are available
across 48 locales and 78 voice fonts.
Through a single API, developers can access
the latest generation of
speech recognition and TTS models.
In Channel 9 news, be sure to check out
the latest episode of 5 Things.
This time with Simona as she talks
about 5 things you can do with Docker, with Dan Wahlin.
Also on Channel 9, our very own Golnaz,
interviews Beatris Mendez Gandica,
a Program Manager at Microsoft in
the latest episode of GALs.
The episode is awesome,
and I would also like to take this time,
to give Golnaz a shout-out
because she is getting married this week.
Congrats G, we love you.
Next up, Brady Gaster,
one of my favorite people in the world,
has put up a great tutorial about how to push
Docker Containers to
the Azure Container Registry, all using VS code.
It's a great write-up and
just another example of all the
cool stuff you can do in code.
And now, it's time for my pick of the week.
And this week, I want to highlight and congratulate
the VideoLAN Team for the 3.0 release of VLC.
VLC is an open source video player available for Windows,
Mac, Linux, Android, and iOS.
And for as long as I can remember,
it's been one of the first apps
I install on a new system,
regardless of operating system.
Because it plays back almost any video
or audio format with ease.
Plus its open source which is awesome.
The new version has tons of new stuff including
hardware decoding for your HD and UHD,
support for HDR, Chromecast support,
and a faster UWP version for Windows 10 and Xbox One.
Thank you VLC team for all that you do.
Well, that does it for me.
I will see you next week,
hopefully, without a cast.