Microsoft Build 2021: Latest announcements include browser improvements, Teams updates, and new AI tools

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The company’s browser, Edge, and its video conferencing tool Teams, are where the average user is likely to see the most changes, but Microsoft also revealed some tools using GPT-3, the artificial intelligence language tool made by OpenAI. Microsoft Teams will have new, collaborative apps Developers will have greater access to Microsoft APIs, the Teams Store, and tools to build collaborative apps, the company also announced. “The new AI-powered features will allow an employee building an e-commerce app to describe a programming goal using conversational language,” Microsoft said in a blog post, which would let users explain goals naturally such as “find products where the name starts with ‘kids’.” The feature will be available in preview in June, and although the company is not the first to do this it does have one advantage: the simplicity of Power Apps. Windows still makes up nearly 75 per cent of worldwide operating system market share, and although Microsoft has demonstrated some updates to the platform users are still waiting for the next big thing – and CEO Satya Nadella says that will be coming soon.