BUILD 2012 day 2 keynote live blog

It's day 2 of Microsoft's BUILD 2012 developers conference and we are under the big outdoor tent here in Redmond, Washington for the second keynote event.

Unlike Tuesday, when we had a little bit of an idea of what might be discussed, we really have no idea what Microsoft has in store for BUILD 2012 attendees this time. Yesterday, the company announced that it had already sold four million Windows 8 upgrades and gave all attendees a free Surface tablet, a free Nokia Lumia 920 smartphone and 100 GB of free SkyDrive data storage.

We don't think Microsoft can really top what they did Tuesday, but we will be here to report on it if they do. Stay tuned for the live blog which should begin around 9 am Pacific Times (noon Eastern Time)

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Oct 31, 2012 John Callaham Welcome to this Neowin.net live event. Coverage will begin shortly.

Oct 31, 2012 John Callaham We still have a few minutes before we start

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Oct 31, 2012 John Callaham There's some DJ action on stage at the moment

Oct 31, 2012 John Callaham And there's some developers on the video wall talking about making Windows 8 apps

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Oct 31, 2012 John Callaham Ok..the stage is being reset

Oct 31, 2012 John Callaham President of Servers and Tools is on stage

Oct 31, 2012 John Callaham Looks like we will get some info about cloud connected apps for Windows 8

Oct 31, 2012 John Callaham 5,000 devices on the WiFi network , according to Satya

Oct 31, 2012 John Callaham Microsoft is reimaging Windows for the cloud

Oct 31, 2012 John Callaham Microsoft is reimaging Windows for the cloud

Oct 31, 2012 John Callaham Lots of sharing and social features

Oct 31, 2012 John Callaham Microsoft wants to make it easy for app developers to send apps to the best devices

Oct 31, 2012 John Callaham More chat about how Microsoft is really pushing for more cloud-based services for things like Xbox Live, Bing, Skydrive and more

Oct 31, 2012 John Callaham Device centric apps linked to the cloud are getting a spotlight

Oct 31, 2012 John Callaham Windows Azure Mobile Services will allow for cloud-based services for apps

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Oct 31, 2012 John Callaham Creating an app on stage that links to Windows Azure

Oct 31, 2012 John Callaham Windows Phone 8 now supports Windows Azure Mobile Services

Oct 31, 2012 John Callaham Coding on stage to enable app to work with Windows Azure

Oct 31, 2012 John Callaham (Obviously, this keynote is more technical than yesterday's event )

Oct 31, 2012 John Callaham The service also allows apps to quickly support things like Twitter, Facebook and Google

Oct 31, 2012 John Callaham App makers can make quick changes to cloud services as well

Oct 31, 2012 John Callaham Now to integrate SkyDrive to this simple app

Oct 31, 2012 John Callaham Adding a tablet for ratings on an app

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Oct 31, 2012 John Callaham Windows Phone 8 preview for Windows Phone Azure Mobile Services is available now

Oct 31, 2012 John Callaham USA Today Windows 8 app uses Azure for its cloud services

Oct 31, 2012 John Callaham Now we are talking about web-based services

Oct 31, 2012 John Callaham Web sites, storage, SQL databases and more

Oct 31, 2012 John Callaham Uploading a video from the BUILD 2012 Hackathon to their web page service

Oct 31, 2012 John Callaham Showing coding that allows programmers to view and change videos uploaded

Oct 31, 2012 John Callaham Creating a new website with the database

Oct 31, 2012 John Callaham Lots of flexibity with Azure to create web services

Oct 31, 2012 John Callaham Facebook passwords can be used for Azure-based websites

Oct 31, 2012 John Callaham So basically Microsoft has now announced Windows Azure Web Sites today

Oct 31, 2012 John Callaham Murally, a web mural site, used Windows Azure Web Site

Oct 31, 2012 John Callaham 1 million hits for launch in September, Windows Azure allows for sites to scale up to meet demand

Oct 31, 2012 John Callaham Now we are talking about cloud-scale services

Oct 31, 2012 John Callaham Scott Guthrie is on stage (Corporate VP)

Oct 31, 2012 John Callaham Windows Azure Media Services is coming this fall

Oct 31, 2012 John Callaham Upload a video to Windows Azure Media Services

Oct 31, 2012 John Callaham Once uploaded, users can change the encoding format of the video

Oct 31, 2012 John Callaham Then you can publish it and embedding in an application

Oct 31, 2012 John Callaham Wow..im on camera in front of thousands of people

Oct 31, 2012 John Callaham The video was uploaded to Windows Azure Media Services

Oct 31, 2012 John Callaham The video would be encoded and can be streamed

Oct 31, 2012 John Callaham and the video that was made just a few seconds ago is now streaming on the net

Oct 31, 2012 John Callaham But what if you have a much longer video that is bigger in storage size?

Oct 31, 2012 John Callaham More coding on stage

Oct 31, 2012 John Callaham Test out two emulators on one machine

Oct 31, 2012 John Callaham Windows Azure Datacenter is fully automated

Oct 31, 2012 John Callaham Leasing Windows Azure Store to others

Oct 31, 2012 John Callaham Announcing the Windows Azure Store

Oct 31, 2012 John Callaham Similar to Windows Store, Windows Phone Store and Office Store

Oct 31, 2012 John Callaham Offering first and third party apps specifically for Windows Azure services

Oct 31, 2012 John Callaham Azure Team Foundation service launches today

Oct 31, 2012 John Callaham Creating a custom databased for team use..product backlog page and more

Oct 31, 2012 John Callaham Free offer for teams of less than five people

Oct 31, 2012 John Callaham Now we are talking about cloud services for enterprise

Oct 31, 2012 John Callaham Office 365 extension for Windows Azure

Oct 31, 2012 John Callaham Azure is a backend for SharePoint

Oct 31, 2012 John Callaham Video showing Workday, an HP-based company that uses cloud services

Oct 31, 2012 John Callaham They think Windows 8 and Office 365 will help them'

Oct 31, 2012 John Callaham Now we are talking about data centric

Oct 31, 2012 John Callaham Hadoop on Windows Azure

Oct 31, 2012 John Callaham We are checking the BUILDClips app again

Oct 31, 2012 John Callaham Checking out database of video views by country

Oct 31, 2012 John Callaham kind of cool actually

Oct 31, 2012 John Callaham Uses Excel to visually create the data

Oct 31, 2012 John Callaham The keynote is actually running a bit late at the moment

Oct 31, 2012 John Callaham Oh, Halo 4 is on the video wall now

Oct 31, 2012 John Callaham Halo 4 is using Windows Azure

Oct 31, 2012 John Callaham Game team uses Azure to test Halo 4

Oct 31, 2012 John Callaham Looks like we are wrapping up

Oct 31, 2012 John Callaham What's next?

Oct 31, 2012 John Callaham That's it..no hardware giveaway, sadly

Oct 31, 2012 John Callaham thanks for reading