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Microsoft Ignite 2020: the Defender rebrand, and the day XDR got a single name thumbnail

Microsoft Ignite 2020: the Defender rebrand, and the day XDR got a single name

By Thimo Buchheister · Thursday, September 24, 2020 · 0 comments

Ignite 2020 was Microsoft's first fully digital flagship — free, 48 hours, run through Teams. It was also the show where the entire enterprise security portfolio collapsed into two Defender brands, and where 'digital resilience' became the framing for pitching XDR to the Mittelstand.

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Microsoft Build 2020: the first Build with no room — 48 hours of everywhere, and the year our stack shipped thumbnail

Microsoft Build 2020: the first Build with no room — 48 hours of everywhere, and the year our stack shipped

By Thimo Buchheister · Wednesday, May 20, 2020 · 0 comments

Build 2020 was the first all-digital Build — a free, 48-hour stream born out of COVID-19. Blazor WebAssembly hit GA, Project Reunion and WinUI 3 arrived, Windows Terminal reached 1.0, WSL2 gained GPU and Linux GUI apps, winget went to preview, and Azure Static Web Apps launched. A look back from a company that watched it from home — and watched the next remote Build six years later.

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