Microsoft Build 2020: Everything announced and then some

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Microsoft Build 2020 kicked off Tuesday with a digital event that featured multiple sessions as well as a host of announcements aimed at developers. 

Simply put, Microsoft Build has returned to its roots with a focus on developers and courting the base for its various platforms including Windows, Azure, Power BI and Dynamics 365.

Here's everything you need to know from Mary Jo Foley and ZDNet as well as the teams at TechRepublic and CNET. 

ZDNet

• Microsoft to open source Fluid Framework; previews end-user experience 
• Microsoft continues to try to unify Win32, UWP Windows apps with 'Project Reunion'
• Microsoft Build 2020 goes back to developers, developers, developers
• Microsoft's hybrid platform, Azure Stack Hub, gets management, machine learning updates
• Microsoft announces first vertical cloud offering: Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare
• Microsoft readies more developer tools for its 'Project Cortex' knowledge-management service
• Microsoft buys robotic process automation vendor Softomotive
• Microsoft Build brings announcements for cloud data, analytics services, and intersection of the two
• Microsoft announces first vertical cloud offering: Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare
• Microsoft builds a supercomputer for OpenAI for training massive AI models
• Microsoft to bring sidebar search, new work-related search page to Chromium-based Edge
• When will you get the next version of Windows 10? Here's how to take control
• Microsoft 365 (formerly Office 365) for business: Everything you need to know  
  

TechRepublic: 

• Microsoft's new Cloud for Healthcare lets doctors schedule telemedicine visits in Teams
• The evolving Microsoft 365 development platform: Microsoft Lists and open-source Fluid Framework
• Microsoft launches Project Reunion to unify Win32 and UWP apps
• Microsoft Build 2020: Teams gets more versatile, and Fluid Framework goes open source
• Explore new update channels for Microsoft 365
• Cheat sheet: Windows 10 PowerToys (free PDF) 
• Windows 10 Start menu hacks 
• Zoom vs. Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, Cisco WebEx and Skype: Choosing the right video-conferencing apps for you (free PDF)    

CNET:

• Microsoft Build: All the Windows 10 and Microsoft 365 updates you need to know
  
• Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella applauds tech's response to COVID-19
  
• Microsoft, no longer fearing the web, gives it a new boost on Windows
  
• Microsoft HoloLens 2 adds 5G support and is getting easier to buy
  
• Microsoft gives the web a boost on Windows
  
• Minecraft play spikes, tops 126M builders a month amid COVID-19

Microsoft Build:

• Session catalog
• CEO Satya Nadella keynote
• Azure: Invent with purpose
• Microsoft Build releases