Microsoft Ignite 2017: Everything that was just announced – CNET

Satya Nadella

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella opens the Ignite conference in Orlando.

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Microsoft Ignite, the company’s big conference dedicated to IT, starts today in Orlando, Florida. And that means a boatload of news about Windows, Office, Azure, Skype — and everything else in Microsoft’s arsenal that the company is targeting to business and enterprise customers.

You can watch the opening keynote livestream at Microsoft’s Ignite site.

The highlights so far, from our colleagues at ZDNet:

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