Big announcements about the reimagining of Windows continues to pour out of the Microsoft BUILD conference on day 2, and MVPs are right in the middle of it. We’ve been watching their blog posts and tweets so you can get a front row seat to see what these community leaders have to say about the news coming out of Anaheim.
Also, check out the review of Day 1 at Build According to MVPs.
David Pallmann: Windows Azure: Architecture MVP
Live from the BUILD conference- Windows 8
Raffaele Rialdi: Developer Security: Development MVP
Deep Diving WinRT and Metro Style Apps for Windows 8
Mercel de Vries: Visual Studio ALM MVP
Microsoft Build Conference Day 2, Metro Style Apps API has Natural Feel for all Developers
Louis-Guillaume Monrand: MVP
How to get back the Windows 7 Start Menu in Windows 8
Gregory Renard: Windows Azure: Architecture MVP
//Build/ Windows 8 : Microsoft galope sur le chemin de l’évolution et non de la révolution !
Roberto Brunetti: MVP
Windows 8: User Experience
Jeremy Likness: Silverlight: Architecture
Windows 8: What you Need to Know
If Silverlight is Dead…
Chris Klug: Silverlight MVP
Build Windows Day 2
Windows 8 Feature Charms
Windows 8 Feature- Roaming Data
The Windows 8 Developer Story According to Me (at the Moment)
Aidan Finn: Virtual Machines: Systems Administration MVP
Build Windows 2011 Windows Server 8 Keynote
Build Windows: Windows 8 Server
Using Windows Server 8 for Building Private and Public Clouds
A Deep Dive into Hyper-V Networking
Refresh or Reset Window 8
We asked MVPs who were attending BUILD and wanted to be included in our MVPs at BUILD 2011 twitter list to tweet #bldwinmvp or let us know @MVPAward.
Here are some of our favorites from Day 2 at BUILD:
MVP
Tweet
Miguel Carrasco
The most exciting thing about Windows 8 Slate devices is the incredibly powerful development environment. #bldwin
Bruce Johnson
I already love the find matching code feature in VS11 #bldwin
Robert Hogg
WOW visual studio 11 imaging and graphics has moved kicking and screaming from the 1980's with great image and 3D editors #bldwin #nomorebmp
Shy Cohen
Awesome, awesome, awesome! Connecting the client rendered view to the code that generated it! Can't wait to get my hands on this! #bldwin
OMG! Its gets better and better! Minified and bundled versions of scripts and CSS by convention! #bldwin
Todd Anglin
Today's #bldwin keynote is like cool, refreshing lemonade for the .NET developer. Gets you excited about .NET again.
Showing user stories, sprints, sprint planning, tasks, teams, task board, how to run a stand up meeting. #bldwin Awesome demo!
Maarten van Stam
Golden Tickets for TFS Azure services available for //Build attendees #bldwin
Steve Smith
Move virtual machine storage location while it is running with no downtime in win server 8 #bldwin
Dennis Vroegop
Can't wait to start using TFS in the cloud. It will make life so much easier. #bldwin
Manan Kakkar
Password Vault in Windows 8—great addition! Synced auth! looks like that Windows Vault thing is finally *something* #bldwin
Rick G. Garibay
Yes, that wooho on #appfabric #ServiceBus was me :-) #BldWin
West Coast Customs in the house... have you ever imagined a dream car that ha augmented reality right in the front windshield? #bldwin
Microsoft just turned the nerd alert to a whole new level with West Coast Customs on stage. #bldwin
Aidan Finn
#SURPRISE Steve Ballmer comes out
Kevin Griffin
Oh snap...
we missed you Steve! #bldwin
RobinDotNet
Wow Over 500k downloads of windows 8 last night. Amazing.
Chris Woodruff
I may be called MSFT fanboy but I am very excited to be a developer that primarily uses .NET. I want to make great solutions & will #bldwin
The #bldwin masses are flooding the expo, armed with questions for MSFT http://twitpic.com/6kvhwq
Chad Campbell
If you've been writing WP7 apps, it looks like those skills will translate swimmingly to Windows 8
Make the function beautiful! Strip it down to nothing, and then make it beautiful! #bldwin
Jennifer Smith
Loving Joe Stegman's session on xaml. Approaching on a level that everyone can understand.
Pride in craftsmanship, Be fast and fluid, Authentically digital, Do more with less, Win as one! #bldwin
Windows Phone team is creating CSS skins for jQuery Mobile that look WinPhone native. #bldwin
#Server8 The power of many servers, the simplicity of one. #bldwin
Peter Ritchie
Just did interview with my friends at @DevExpress about all the good stiff we've seen so far this week #bldwin #BldWinMVP
Jim Wooley
Windows 8 is about no PC left behind. -Joe Stegman #bldwin
Automatic classification of data for dynamic access control is serious business reason for Windows Server 8!!!! #bldwin #bldwinmvp
Raffaele Rialdi
You could never imagine guys. This Win8 stuff is huge and terribly cool #WinRT #bldwin
Walt Ritscher
You know how people take pics of session screens with their phones? This morning I saw dozens of ppl taking pic with their new win8 slates.
I love that Blend designer is now incorporated right into Visual Studio! #bldwin
Evan Hutnick
@miguelcarrasco We've been keeping quiet about that one since the MVP summit :) #bldwin
Kate Gregory
Went quiet because i am massively engaged with C++ content in packed rooms. Small break between sessions to say "wow!" #bldwin #happycamper
Jeremiah Morrill
Microsoft has out done themselves with c++/com. Amazing! C# should have little complaints about moving over.
W. Kevin Hazzard
As sad as I was when @devhawk left the DLR team I fully understand why he was THE perfect choice on the WinRT team. This changes everything.
After this little Xaml revolution at #bldwin I seriously need to get my website up. You'll see why, have had domain for two years :D
wwoombile
In love with CSS3 #bldwin
DerikWhittaker
So with Win8 I am no longer just a .net dev I am also a WinRt dev. more resume candy #bldwin #bldwinmvp
Fabien Lavocat
I'm creating my first application for Windows 8 :) #proud #bldwin
sevensteps
ok, decided. not going to the #bldwin party. 1) didn't sleep last night. 2) win8 app almost done, just another couple of hours. Almost there
Vasu Jain
Within a single day of announce of developer preview of Windows 8, it has more users than Mac OS X Lion .. #bldWin
And for those of you who really want to experience the full effect of this event you can find a more complete set of tweets here:
It was great to be there.