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If you weren’t aware Microsoft is hosting its Ignite conference this week in Chicago (May 4th-8th).

Microsoft Ignite is the convergence of several Microsoft conferences into one mammoth event. And, it makes sense. With so much cross-product integration there was a growing amount of duplicate content. To quote the Microsoft Blog;

So how popular is Ignite? Joe Belfiore (@joebelfiore) revealed during the Cortana Power BI demo that over 23,000 people were in attendance. Unfortunately, I couldn’t make this conference. But luckily Microsoft has not forgotten us. You can watch the on-demand recording of the keynote here. Furthermore, Channel 9 is live-streaming several of the sessions at http://channel9.msdn.com/. Their featured session guide is on the front page.

UPDATE: Channel 9 has all the Ignite recordings available here. There are 688 recorded sessions!!

Your 2016 may have just gotten a little busier

If you saw the keynote then you know there was a slew of product announcements made. Microsoft CEO, Satya Nadella (@satyanadella), announced several new product releases. Many of which are already available for preview, or, will be second-half 2015.

Products included:

• Windows Server 10
• Exchange 2016
• System Center 2016
• SQL Server 2016
• Windows 10
• Office 2016

Also highlighted were:

• Azure for your Datacenter
• Skype for Business Broadcast
• Windows Update for Business
• Cortana improvements
• Continuum for Windows Phone
• Hello feature
• Skype for HoloLens
• Microsoft Advanced Threat Analytics
• Operations Management Suite
• Device Guard
• Azure Rights Management and Data Loss Prevention

One message from Satya’s presentation was very clear.