What Developers Should Know from Microsoft Build

It used to be that I could easily ignore the news coming from Redmond. Sure, Microsoft was always important, but I was never a .NET or Windows developer, so what they were saying rarely applied to me. I might be impressed by the quality of their tooling, like Visual Studio, but I didn't write C#, so it didn't really matter. Microsoft has an outsize role in most every developer's career. Even if you don't directly use their products or services, the direction they take has an enormous impact on us.