Windows 10: Microsoft Computex 2019 Keynote: innovation on Intelligent Edge

Brink · May 29, 2019

Today, at Computex in Taipei, Microsoft executives Roanne Sones, CVP OS Platforms and Rodney Clark, VP IoT Sales, shared the keynote stage with me to showcase Microsoft 365, Windows platform and Azure IoT technologies and services that device partners can use to deliver innovative modern PC experiences and build a new generation of connected devices and IoT solutions. In addition, they provided perspective as to how intelligent edge ecosystem partners can fuel business transformation by working together to build edge to cloud IoT solutions.

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The PC ecosystem continues to innovate and build modern Windows PCs that deliver breakthrough performance, enable new scenarios and offer the ultimate in secure, intelligent edge devices that customers love. Partners including Acer, Asus, Dell, HP, Lenovo and MSI have recently announced new modern PCs that will delight both creators and gamers.

Acer’s ConceptD 9 creator notebook features a 4K UHD IPS PANTONE Validated display. Colors are as accurate as possible as the display covers 100 percent of the Adobe RGB color gamut. This creator notebook stays quiet with Acer’s 4th generation AeroBlade 3D Fan with a noise reduction mechanism that emits less than 40 db of noise — equivalent to the sound level of a library — while maintaining high computing and graphics performance.

The ASUS ZenBook Pro Duo (UX581), an ultraportable laptop that includes a 4KOLED UHD ASUS ScreenPad Plus (3840 x 2160), a full-width secondary touchscreen (3840 x 1100) that expands and enhances the interactive capabilities of the original ASUS ScreenPad. The display is a frameless four-sided ASUS NanoEdge design, with ultra slim bezels for immersive visuals, in an ultra-compact form factor.

The new Dell XPS 13 2-in-1 packs more performance in a thinner design and larger display. Dell’s first laptop with Intel’s Ice Lake-U 10nm 10th gen processors and features adaptive performance based on the latest Intel Dynamic Tuning Technology, which proactively changes the power of the CPU according to the performance of the workload. It comes with a redesigned thermal system to cool the higher performing processor, while creating an overall 8% thinner 2-in-1 than the previous generation.

HP recently announced the OMEN X 2S. On top of a variety of awesome use cases for messaging, music apps, watching videos, stream chats and OMEN Command Center, it features a real-time screen mirroring feature further bolsters the OMEN X 2S, by cutting and magnifying parts of the main screen – such as copying the map portion of a racing game – to the second screen, ensuring centered vision and more vertical head movement.

The new Lenovo ThinkPad T495 offers feature upgrades without compromise, and provides a high level of hardware security and manageability. It has longer battery life, and increased performance by up to 18 percent (compared to benchmarks of prior generations). And since security is top of mind for everyone, Lenovo is delivering greater peace of mind with just a slide of the ThinkShutter, the all-in-one integrated camera security cover that physically protects ThinkPad users from malicious webcam snoopers.

Featuring the latest RTX graphics and 9th Generation Intel Core i9 processor and Wi-Fi 6, the new MSI GE65 Raider can easily handle demanding AAA game titles. Its ultra-fast 240Hz IPS-level thin bezel display ensures sharp and clear images in a compact form factor, and the new two-toned mesh design at the underside of the unit, inspired by a dragon theme, provides better ventilation and prevents hot air from recirculating.

These new modern PCs and innovative devices the ecosystem will continue to build and bring to market in the future require a modern operating system. An OS that provides a set of enablers that deliver the foundational experiences customers expect from their devices, and includes a set of delighters that deliver innovative human centric experiences. Enablers include seamless updates – with a modern OS updates are invisibly done in the background; the update experience is deterministic, reliable, and instant with no interruptions! A modern OS, is also secure by default, the state is separated from the operating system; compute is separated from applications; this protects the user from malicious attacks throughout the device lifecycle. Always connected -with a modern OS Wifi, LTE 5G will just work – and users never have to worry about a deadspot. All of a users devices are aware and connected to each other. A modern OS provides sustained performance, from the moment a user picks up their device – everything is ready to go – without having to worry about the next time the PC needs to be charged. These enablers will satisfy customer’s basic needs, but to truly differentiate we must also delight them. A modern OS does this by enabling cloud-connected experiences that use the compute power of the cloud to enhance users experiences on their devices.  These experiences are powered by AI, so a modern OS is aware of what a user is doing tomorrow and helps them get it done, and it enhances applications making them more intelligent. A modern OS is also multi-sense. People can use pen, voice, touch, even gaze – what ever input method a user wants to use works just as well as the keyboard and mouse. Finally, a modern OS provides the ultimate in form factor agility. A modern OS has the right sensor support and posture awareness to enable the breadth of innovative form factors and applications that our partner ecosystem will deliver.

These enablers and delighters underpin our vision for a Modern OS, they will provide the foundational elements for an evolution of the PC ecosystem and enable partners to deliver the more human-centric experiences of tomorrow. Microsoft is investing to enable these modern OS experiences, and to deliver new ones that take advantage of silicon advancements, powerful PCs, the cloud and power of AI. Experiences like an Asian Inking platform, cognitive recognition services that help with photo tagging and new Your Phone capabilities that let users mirror their Android phone screen on their PC and use the PC mouse and keyboard to interact with phone apps and content using either Wi-Fi or LTE.

Intelligent Edge and the Internet of Things

IoT is another area of tremendous growth and unparalleled innovation, and our broad ecosystem of IoT partners including chip makers, hardware manufacturers, solution providers and aggregators are building a diverse assortment of IoT devices and solutions for businesses across industries. At Microsoft our goal is to simplify IoT – from the cloud down to the smallest MCU based devices, and we do this by meeting our partners and customers where they are, with the right intelligent cloud services, software and development tools they need to get devices connected, and manage solutions at scale.

Device partners are utilizing Azure IoT Central, Azure IoT Edge and Windows IoT to build intelligent edge devices that can be connected to the cloud and used in solutions that deliver business results. Today at Computex, we announced that Microsoft and NXP are continuing their efforts to bring the full range of NXP systems-on-a-chip (SoCs) to Windows IoT. The board support package (BSP) for the i.MX6 SoloX applications processors will be generally available in June 2019. Additional BSPs for members of the i.MX6 series are expected to become available later this summer, with BSPs for the i.MX7 and i.MX8 series released later this year.

We’ve recently announced additional services and programs that hardware manufacturers can use to get their devices connected to the cloud and included in IoT solutions.

IoT Plug and Play, a new open modeling language to connect IoT devices to the cloud seamlessly, helps device partners navigate one of the biggest challenges they face — deploying IoT solutions at scale. Previously, software had to be written specifically for the connected device it supported, limiting the scale of IoT deployments. IoT Plug and Play provides partners with a straightforward way to model the capabilities and data coming from their IoT devices and will provide customers with a large portfolio of partner-certified devices that can easily be made to work with any IoT solution, often without writing any new code.

Azure IoT Central is a fully managed global IoT SaaS (software-as-a-service) solution that makes it easy to connect, monitor, and manage IoT assets at scale. Bring connected products to market faster while staying focused on customers. New custom dashboard features allow partners to bring their own brand and user experience to their IoT solution, and benefit from the built-in security, reliability, device connectivity and role-based user account management provided by IoT Central.

Microsoft Azure IoT Device Agent V2 for Windows 10 IoT, lets operators configure, monitor and manage their devices remotely from their Azure dashboard. It provides an open-source, ready to build package that: creates and manages the Azure IoT Hub identities on the device, manages the cloud connection and its renewal, provides a plug-in model for platform components, which allows easy onboarding to various Azure services, including discovery, initialization, error reporting and state aggregation, comes with a set of ready-to-ship plug-ins for commonly used platform components and leverages Azure IoT Module Twin so a separate UWP app is not required to connect to Azure IoT Hub.

Businesses who are implementing IoT solutions want to achieve time to value as quickly as possible. And, when partners take advantage of Microsoft’s comprehensive, trusted and easy to use edge to cloud platforms, embrace business model transformation and work together they can reduce the complexity of IoT, and accelerate time to value for customers. Leveraging a common architecture and repeatable solutions based on accelerators can eliminate up to 80 percent of the development work on a new solution, and collaborating with compatible partners offers greater speed, scalability, and depth of expertise. All of which means customers get their IoT solutions up and running faster — hastening ROI and increasing profitability.

Techsun is a great example of an ecosystem partner who is embracing IoT transformation. They successfully collaborated with Compal to design an AI camera, IoT sensor and IOT management platform that leverages Microsoft services including Edge AI, Azure IoT and cognitive services to develop cloud to edge AI algorithms, a data management platform and a business management platform for retail. A variety of retailers have implemented Techsun’s Retail Next solution and are using consumer flow and store operation data along with information on consumer behavior that the solution makes available to improve customer service, increase efficiency and enhance store layouts. By developing this new solution, Techsun has transformed itself from being a traditional Dynamics partner into a leading retail digital service provider in China.

Advantech developed an end-to-end industry safety solution that includes the BTI MIOTY LPWAN wireless solution running on an industry-standard Windows IoT gateway and a wearable device that monitors heart rates. Industrial customers can use this solution to gather health data for their people working in high-risk industrial environments, send the data to the Microsoft Cloud where Hitachi Solutions’ IoT Service Hub is used to provide actionable insights on workers’ health and to send alerts when people are in danger. Employers, such as mining site operators, can deploy this end-to-end solution to protect their workforce with unprecedented responsiveness at a fraction of the cost of previously available technologies.

The breadth of innovative intelligent edge devices and solutions our partners, across the PC and IoT ecosystems, have delivered in the last year is incredible, and we’re just getting started! The opportunities we all have to empower people, drive growth and enable business transformation, when we use the power of the cloud and AI to build intelligent edge solutions, are limitless. I look forward to the innovation we will deliver together.
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Brink · May 29, 2019

Computex 2018 in Taipei June 5 - 9

2018 Microsoft Keynote at Computex
Building the Future: Intelligent cloud & intelligent edge
Speaker: Nick Parker, Corporate Vice President, Consumer Device Sales, Microsoft Corporation

Microsoft Corporate Vice President, Nick Parker, will deliver a keynote at 2:00pm on Wednesday June 6, at the Taipei International Convention Center, as part of Microsoft’s 16th annual presence at Computex. Parker is responsible for the company’s device partnerships spanning the intelligent cloud and the intelligent edge - where billions of connected devices provide seamless access to the cloud and the power of AI.

During the 90-minute keynote, Parker will talk about how the intelligent cloud and the intelligent edge are shaping the next phase of tech innovation. This phase represents a world where computing is more powerful and ubiquitous from the cloud to the edge, where AI capabilities are rapidly advancing across perception and cognition, where the physical and virtual worlds are coming together to create richer experiences and all of this is fueled by data that helps us better understand our customers and users in new, meaningful ways.

Parker will discuss the myriad opportunities such a future represents for the device partner ecosystem to innovate, collaborate and deliver new products, solutions, services and experiences that empower people and organizations to achieve more. He will speak to experiences currently in development and showcase some of Microsoft’s newest innovations across a range of platforms. In addition, Parker will show a variety of new devices and experiences from our partners and offer his perspective on strategies for growth.

Date: June 6 (Wed), 2018
Time: 14:00-15:30
Venue: 3F, Plenary Hall, Taipei International Convention Center (TICC), 1 Hsin-Yi Road, Section 5, Taipei 11049, Taiwan ROC

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Brink · May 29, 2019

Intel at COMPUTEX 2019 on May 28 to June 1

Join Intel at COMPUTEX 2019 to discover how the company is transforming intelligent computing for our data-centric world to expand human potential. Intel is delivering technology leadership, working closely with the ecosystem to fuel innovation and push the boundaries of computing forward.

Where: Taipei International Convention Center (TICC), Xinyi District, Taipei City, Taiwan, 110

When: May 28 – June 1, 2019

More: Intel at COMPUTEX 2019 Press Kit| COMPUTEX 2019 Industry Opening Keynote by Intel to Set the Tone for Computing Innovation (News Release)

EVENT: COMPUTEX 2019 Industry Opening Keynote

Gregory Bryant, Intel senior vice president and general manager of the Client Computing Group, returns to deliver the COMPUTEX 2019 Industry Opening Keynote with the theme of “Powering Every Person’s Greatest Contribution, Together,” demonstrating how Intel, together with industry partners, will transform intelligent computing for our data-centric world and the PC’s role in powering the human edge. Join him, alongside special guests, as he discusses how Intel and the ecosystem will play a key role in powering every person’s greatest contribution and pushing the boundaries of technology forward.

When: Tuesday, May 28, 1:30-2:30 p.m., Taipei Time

Where: Taipei International Convention Center (TICC), Third Floor, Plenary Hall

» Press and analysts may register for the Keynote and/or Technology Open House

EVENT: Intel Technology Open House

Get a hands-on experience and up-close view of the technologies driving the future of computing. This session is open to accredited press and analysts. Registration is required.

When: Thursday, May 30, 9 a.m.-12 p.m., Taipei Time

Where: Le Meridien Hotel, Third Floor, Amber Room, 38 SongRen Road, Xinyi District, Taipei City, Taiwan 110

» Press and analysts may register for the Keynote and/or Technology Open House

SHOWCASE: Intel AI/IoT Solutions Demo Zone

Stop by the Intel AI/IoT Solutions Demo Zone to see the latest Intel and ecosystem partner solutions for vision AI, retail, smart factory and smart cities.

When: Tuesday, May 28-31, 9:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m., Taipei Time

Where: Taipei International Convention Center (TICC), North Foyer, First Floor

EVENT: Intel AI/IoT Solutions Forum

Come hear Intel technology experts and ecosystem partners as they host sessions on computer vision AI, industrial AI, Intel® Market Ready Solutions and more.

When: Wednesday, May 29-31, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., Taipei Time

Where: Taipei International Convention Center (TICC), 101D, First Floor

EVENT: COMPUTEX Forum AIoT (AI+IoT) Session

Speaker: Joe Jensen, Intel vice president in the Internet of Things Group and general manager of Retail, Banking, Hospitality & Education

Title: Innovate and scale with AI and Computer Vision

Topic: AI and computer vision are the center of many discussions business decision-makers are having as they look to gain greater insights from data. Join this session and hear Intel’s perspective and learn how to leverage the power of these technologies to maximize your data and drive business forward.

When: Wednesday, May 29, 2-2:40 p.m., Taipei Time

Where: Taipei International Convention Center, Second Floor, Room 201

EVENT: 2019 Taipei 5G Summit

Speaker: Cristina Rodriguez, Intel vice president in the Data Center Group and general manager of the Wireless Access Network Division

Title: Accelerating 5G Services with End-to-End Solutions

Topic: Hear how 5G will utilize radio access network (RAN) technology and edge-to-cloud computing to drive new consumer experiences and operator services.

When: Thursday, May 30, 9:25-9:40 a.m., Taipei Time

Where: Taipei International Convention Center, Third Floor, Room 201

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Brink · May 29, 2019

Latest Windows IoT innovations for intelligent edge devices

At Microsoft, we’re focused on simplifying the Internet of Things (IoT) by making it easier to quickly build secure, smart devices that leverage the intelligent cloud while harnessing the full power of the intelligent edge, including artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, and robotics.

This week at Embedded World in Nuremberg, Germany, we’re announcing new products and services for Windows IoT to help make this real for device manufacturers, solution developers, and customers.

Here are some highlights of what we’re unveiling at Embedded World.

Windows Server IoT 2019 is here

Windows 10 IoT provides a family of operating systems for device builders to develop solutions, from compact low-power devices to servers and everything in between. This includes Windows 10 IoT Core for small-footprint, smart-edge devices and Windows 10 IoT Enterprise, which brings the full power of Windows to IoT devices.

Today, we’re pleased to announce the release of Windows Server IoT 2019 to securely handle the largest edge workloads with fixed-function, server-class devices. With full binary compatibility to Windows Server 2019, device manufacturers can build server-class IoT edge devices that enable high-capacity storage and compute scenarios and seamlessly scale between cloud and the edge. For example, imagine network videorecorders or high-end gateways, connecting thousands or even tens of thousands of sensors or devices, then storing, analyzing, and acting on these data streams in near-real-time with reduced latency and bandwidth consumption through utilizing the power of the intelligent edge.

Easier innovation at the edge

New capabilities for Windows 10 IoT are oriented to making developers’ jobs easier:

Azure IoT Edge for Windows—Developers can easily bring cloud workloads to the edge so that they can harness the full power of the Windows 10 IoT platform. They can scale IoT solutions across the cloud or edge with a managed service that delivers cloud intelligence locally by deploying and running AI, Azure services, and custom logic directly on cross-platform IoT devices. Customers benefit by deploying cloud applications and services on the edge, while ensuring they meet latency, bandwidth, and data privacy requirements. With these capabilities, it’s easy to see how devices get smarter.

Azure IoT Device Agent for Windows—Customers across industries, whether in an industrial setting or retail environment, are looking for ways to remotely provision and manage their IoT devices. Direct device access may not always be feasible when IoT devices are out in the field or on the factory floor. Microsoft Azure IoT Device Agent enables operators to configure, monitor, and manage their devices remotely from their Azure dashboard.

Robot Operating System for Windows IoT—Now developers can build and deploy commercial-grade Robot Operating System (ROS) solutions on Windows, making robots easier to develop, more aware of their surroundings, and safer to be around. Bringing ROS to Windows IoT enables rich AI and intelligent edge capabilities, including hardware-accelerated Windows machine learning, computer vision, Azure Cognitive Services, and turnkey connection to Azure IoT cloud services. In addition, customers can benefit from the enterprise security, manageability, and supportability Windows IoT brings to robotic and industrial systems.

“Microsoft has been a valued addition to the ROS-I Consortium,” says Matthew M. Robinson of the ROS-Industrial Consortium Americas. “Our membership has expressed significant interest in developments that will bring the advanced capabilities of ROS to industrial applications on the Windows platform and enable richer integration with other Microsoft tools that the Consortium membership have come to leverage.”

Extending device and silicon support

Microsoft continues to partner with silicon providers to ensure a broad range of hardware support for Windows 10 IoT.

Strengthening partnership with NXP
We are pleased to continue our partnership with NXP and are announcing a public preview for Windows 10 IoT Core with built-in Azure connectivity, running on the i.MX 8M and i.MX 8M Mini applications processors. The i.MX 8M family of applications processors will enable secure, power-optimized devices for the intelligent edge that give developers a choice of Linux or Windows IoT. Developers can quickly build new intelligent devices using the familiar and powerful Windows development environment and commercialize them using our powerful Azure IoT platform as well as Azure Cognitive Services. In addition, NXP has worked with Microsoft to enable Azure IoT Edge on Linux for the i.MX 8M and i.MX 8M Mini applications processors. Azure IoT Edge allows customers to deploy and manage containerized cloud workloads running on i.MX8 devices from their Azure IoT dashboard.

“We are pleased to expand our partnership with Microsoft to bring Azure IoT Edge to our high-performance, multicore i.MX 8M applications processors platform,” says Geoff Lees, senior vice president of microcontrollers at NXP. “With this addition, NXP customers will have access to industry-leading edge computing solutions, from i.MX 6 to i.MX 7 and i.MX 8/8M across Windows 10 IoT Core and Linux operating systems, for advanced industrial and IoT applications, harnessing the full power of Azure in their intelligent edge products.”

Qualcomm Snapdragon support for always-on, always-connected IoT devices
Our partnership with Qualcomm and board providers enables developers to harness the power of the Snapdragon family of processors with Windows 10 IoT Enterprise. Customers gain always-on connectivity and the power management capabilities of Snapdragon, with the full power of Windows 10 IoT Enterprise.

“The combination of Qualcomm Technologies’ cutting-edge platforms and Windows 10 IoT Enterprise can enable always-connected, always-on intelligent edge devices to help companies of all sizes and industries deliver on the promise of IoT. We’re excited to support the work of companies like USI, with its SOM 850, and Thundercomm, with its TurboX AI Kit, as they bring their products to commercialization,” said Jeffery Torrance, vice president, business development, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.

Customers from across industries are simplifying digital transformation with Windows IoT

Building and deploying IoT solutions can be complex, expensive, and time-consuming. Customers and partners are looking for ways to take connected devices to market fast, capitalize on smart capabilities that drive new applications and services, and ensure device security. Action Point, an IT services company headquartered in Ireland, used Windows 10 IoT Enterprise to create a predictive maintenance solution for its manufacturing customers called IoT-PREDICT. The Action Point solution uses AI, machine learning, and data analytics to identify and resolve potential issues. Manufacturers benefit by reducing downtime and costs and increasing efficiency.

“Because IoT-PREDICT is built on Windows 10 IoT Enterprise, it’s very easy for customers to deploy,” says John Savage, ActionPoint co-founder and chief technology officer. “They’re essentially just installing a Windows 10 IoT device on their network, with the same familiar management and security framework they already use to manage their other Windows-based devices.”

IDEX Fire and Safety provides equipment that helps firefighters and emergency medical technicians perform lifesaving duties. The company needed to ensure that equipment would always be available, without risk of malfunctioning or going offline. IDEX Fire and Safety chose Windows 10 IoT Core and the Microsoft Azure Government cloud to develop the Captium platform to connect all in-truck systems. The IoT solution provides telemetry, health reporting, and predictive maintenance that keeps emergency vehicles operationally ready 24×7, 365 days a year.

“Windows IoT Core enabled us to leverage our existing skills and provides the security and trust we needed to develop a demanding application that helps ensure first responders’ equipment is always operationally ready,” says Jeffrey Zook, marketing manager, IDEX Fire and Safety. “Windows IoT Core, combined with Azure, provided IDEX with the end-to-end platform to build our solution.”

Learn more about how Windows IoT is powering what’s next, securely

A fundamental challenge of digital transformation is protecting IoT devices from vulnerabilities. At Embedded World, we’re not only introducing new Windows 10 IoT products and services—we’re also showcasing how Microsoft stands behind your IoT devices throughout their lifespans, including 10-year support for security updates via the Windows Long-Term Servicing Channel.

Come and see real-world Windows IoT-based solutions—robotics, securely connected factories, remote field service and predictive maintenance, among others—on display at the Microsoft booth #422 in Hall 4 at Embedded World. We’d love to talk about the possibilities our IoT platform can bring to your company.

Learn more about Windows 10 IoT.
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Source: Microsoft announces latest Windows IoT innovations for intelligent edge devices at Embedded World | Windows Experience Blog

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