Microsoft Ignite Day 1 Keynote: Here comes the new trends for IT world per Microsoft

While Microsoft Ignite is not necessarily a consumer-focused events, most of the thing presented on this event are going to be indirectly or directly attached on how people in general uses Windows for productivity and mixing with personal and professional work.

Ys, it is an unavoidable thing to do if your work closely with IT or have the privileged to working on a remote friendly environment.

Let’s cut to the chase, shall we?

Teams will translate for you in other languages

Microsoft Teams meetings are getting a new interpreter feature that lets each participant speak or listen in the language of their choosing. Interpreter in Teams uses real-time AI-powered speech-to-speech translation to simulate your speaking voice during meetings.

The new feature will be offered as a preview (be aware on not relying 100% on the feature) by early 2025.

More automation with Copilot for Microsoft 365

Microsoft announced Copilot Actions, designed to help you with repetitive task within your Microsoft 365 environment with things like automating a summary of meeting actions from Teams meetings, generating weekly reports, or even automating meeting prep.

Copilot Actions is designed to be something you set and forget, much like an AI-powered macro that goes off and does its thing based on some fill-in-the-blank prompts.

Hotpatch should reach consumer users of Windows 11

Microsoft announced Windows Hotpatch, which basically is the ability for Windows Update dealing with updates WITHOUT making your system requiring a reboot.

Unfortunately, there is no news if this will be given outside commercial customers, aka us peasants.

Because Microsoft knows that companies are limiting Remote workplace environment

Unfortunately, my workplaces are avoiding as possible remote work opportunity, while understandable, theses past few years proven that remote work shouldn’t be a privileged, but an incentive to do work if of course, your tasks are justified so.

With that in mine, enters Microsoft Places, which uses AI to coordinate in-office days with colleagues, dedicated location plan section where you can set and share the days, you’ll use the office and view which days your co-workers are heading in.

The feature is available now and, in the meantime, Microsoft is working o incorporate as part of Microsoft Copilot.

A Windows 11 Copilot+ PC response to Apple’s Mac Mini

Surprisingly, Microsoft announced a new original hardware and enters the Windows 365 Link PC, which an undisclosed Intel processor, 8GB of RAM, 64GB of storage, USB-A 3.2 port, Wi-Fi 6E and Bluetooth 5.3 wireless connectivity.

With an introductory MSRP of $349, Microsoft believes that having a Windows-as-a-Services environment, where Windows 11 Weill be served via Cloud computing instead of a locally installed OS, will “makes sense for commercial customers, who have a set of scenarios and workloads that they’re using today [where Microsoft thinks] this is a more compelling alternative”.

Windows 365 Link combined with these AI experiences could be another unique selling point for Windows 365 over similar cloud PC solutions from Citrix and others. Windows 365 Link is now in preview and will become available in select markets for $349 in April 2025.

Copilot+ PC will increment Universal Search power

A new “improved” Windows search will allow you to search for documents, photos, and other files by just describing them — even when you’re not connected to the internet, coming in next year.

The takeaways from the notorious CrowdStrike incident continues

We already know that Microsoft has just enough of developers and companies using indiscreetly software and services that requires access at the kernel level and this year ‘s CrowdStrike incident served as a BIG & GOOD EXMAPLE that this behavior needs to stop or at least or at least heavily check in/

With that, the Windows Resiliency Initiative…

The Windows Resiliency Initiative includes core changes to Windows that will make it easier for Microsoft’s customers to recover Windows-based machines if there’s ever another CrowdStrike-like incident. There are also some new Windows platform improvements to provide stronger controls over what apps and drivers are allowed to run and to help allow antivirus processing outside of kernel mode.

Also, related to security, Microsoft is creating an in-person hacking event, Zero Day Quest, which it says will be the largest of its kind. The event will build upon Microsoft’s existing bug bounty program and incentivize research into high-impact security flaws that can affect the software powering cloud and AI workloads.

Microsoft HoloLens is out, enters more support for Meta Quest 3

Meta and Microsoft announced that the full capabilities of Windows 11 mixed reality for Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality are coming to the Meta Quest 3 and Quest 3S in December. You’ll be able to have a large multiple-monitor workstation through Quest 3 headsets in public preview next month.

Windows 11 will have more “companions”

Microsoft is creating a new companions experience for the Windows 11 taskbar that will surface important data with just a click. Microsoft 365 Companions will include contacts and people, files, or calendar appointments integrated into the taskbar of Windows 11.