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BUILD 2012 keynote live blog

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We are now inside the big tent that was built on Microsoft's campus in Redmond, Washington especially for the company's BUILD 2012 developer conference. The keynote event is scheduled to being at 9 am Pacific Times (noon Eastern Time).

Before the event begins, attendees are getting a free electronic music concert from Jordan Rudess. He is not only a keyboardist for the band Dream Theater, he is also a software creator who has made programs for Windows 8.

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Oct 30, 2012 John Callaham Welcome to this Neowin.net live event. Coverage will begin shortly.
Oct 30, 2012 John Callaham We are now here under the big test
Oct 30, 2012 John Callaham Jordan Rudess is showing off his Windows 8 music app on the new Surface as well as a Lenovo PC on stage
Oct 30, 2012 John Callaham The app allows people to manipulate sounds and music by just touching the screen
Oct 30, 2012 John Callaham He's showing off an app called Tachyon that not only can create music but also creates 3D visuals that are changed by the sounds.
Oct 30, 2012 John Callaham Now there's a video presentation showing famous software creators (WordPress, Atari, Plants Vs Zombies)
Oct 30, 2012 John Callaham Bill Gates shows up briefly in the video
Oct 30, 2012 John Callaham More music now from Jordan Rudess
Oct 30, 2012 John Callaham We should start the keynote in a couple of minutes
Oct 30, 2012 John Callaham We seem to be running a little late but Jordan is killing it on the keyboards while we wait.
Oct 30, 2012 John Callaham So far the tent is holding out the rain...no leaks evident.
Oct 30, 2012 John Callaham Ok..he seems to be wrapping up..getting lots of applause
Oct 30, 2012 John Callaham Now showing the Times Square Windows 8 video we posted earlier this week
Oct 30, 2012 John Callaham Lots of Windows 8 hardware is being put on stage
Oct 30, 2012 John Callaham Now they are showing Steve Ballmer's Windows Phone 8 video
Oct 30, 2012 John Callaham Ballmer is onstage
Oct 30, 2012 John Callaham He is expressing his concern about the people affected by Hurricane Sandy
Oct 30, 2012 John Callaham BUILD 2013 is apparently confirmed..will be held in a "bigger" venue than this year
Oct 30, 2012 John Callaham
Oct 30, 2012 John Callaham 4 million windows 8 upgrades since Friday
Oct 30, 2012 John Callaham Sales of Windows 8 hardware are good so far
Oct 30, 2012 John Callaham Reviews are good too
Oct 30, 2012 John Callaham Ballmer says that Windows 8 PCs are the best PC ever made
Oct 30, 2012 John Callaham Lots of innovation in the hardware base
Oct 30, 2012 John Callaham Ballmer now is talking about Windows Phone 8
Oct 30, 2012 John Callaham They are the smartphones that people will want who own a Windows 8 PC
Oct 30, 2012 John Callaham According to Ballmer that is
Oct 30, 2012 John Callaham Ballmer says that Microsoft wanted to create a
Oct 30, 2012 John Callaham "personal" smartphone OS
Oct 30, 2012 John Callaham Ballmer says there is a lot of opportunity for app makers in Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8
Oct 30, 2012 John Callaham Makes apps easy to personalize
Oct 30, 2012 John Callaham Showing Windows 8 demo now
Oct 30, 2012 John Callaham Ballmer is doing the demo himself
Oct 30, 2012 John Callaham He says that he is not a pro demo guy
Oct 30, 2012 John Callaham showing an 82 inch Windows 8 "slate"
Oct 30, 2012 John Callaham He's using it to show off Bing Maps
Oct 30, 2012 John Callaham Showing OneNote on the big screen
Oct 30, 2012 John Callaham
Oct 30, 2012 John Callaham The hardware comes from Perspective Pixel, which Microsoft acquired earlier this year
Oct 30, 2012 John Callaham Showing the slightly smaller but still big Dell 27 inch XPS all-in-one PC
Oct 30, 2012 John Callaham Searching for Jessica Alba on the PC
Oct 30, 2012 John Callaham (She showed up at the Windows Phone 8 press event)
Oct 30, 2012 John Callaham The Finance Windows 8 app apparently doesn't like Jessica Alba..:)
Oct 30, 2012 John Callaham Showing off the News Windows 8 app
Oct 30, 2012 John Callaham Lots of Jessica Alba news in that app
Oct 30, 2012 John Callaham So far the demo section is going off without a hitch
Oct 30, 2012 John Callaham Ballmer is changing the lock screen on the Dell PC and it shows up on the big 82 inch PC
Oct 30, 2012 John Callaham Now Ballmer is showing the Windows Phone 8 smartphones from Samsung, Nokia and HTC
Oct 30, 2012 John Callaham He's syncing the Lumia device to other Windows Phones
Oct 30, 2012 John Callaham Asus Vivo Tab RT is up next
Oct 30, 2012 John Callaham Ballmer wants to throw it into the audience but its logged into his email account :)
Oct 30, 2012 John Callaham He's checking the status of the San Francisco Giants on the Asus
Oct 30, 2012 John Callaham They beat the Detroit Tigers; That's Ballmer's home team
Oct 30, 2012 John Callaham Now he's showing the Windows RT Surface
Oct 30, 2012 John Callaham And if you don't know what that is by now welcome to Earth :)
Oct 30, 2012 John Callaham Ballmer is using the Touch Cover
Oct 30, 2012 John Callaham Actually it may be the Type Cover
Oct 30, 2012 John Callaham Shows off Xbox Music on the Surface
Oct 30, 2012 John Callaham Ballmer is searching for a song..people are yelling out "Freebird"
Oct 30, 2012 John Callaham Ballmer selects Beautiful Day from U2
Oct 30, 2012 John Callaham And its now streaming on Xbox Music
Oct 30, 2012 John Callaham Ballmer is showing the upcoming Lenovo ThinkPad Tablet 2 with Windows 8
Oct 30, 2012 John Callaham Showing the new touch version of Outlook
Oct 30, 2012 John Callaham Using OneNote with the ThinkPad Tablet 2's included stylus
Oct 30, 2012 John Callaham Finally, Ballmer shows Acer Aspire S7 ultrabook
Oct 30, 2012 John Callaham which we were very impressed with when we got a chance to check out last week
Oct 30, 2012 John Callaham Ballmer suggests people will gravite to touch screen laptops
Oct 30, 2012 John Callaham The Acer PC has Visual Studio 2012 installed for this demo
Oct 30, 2012 John Callaham to show how app makers can develop software on regular PCs
Oct 30, 2012 John Callaham Ballmer shows off MSN.com for IE10 and Windows 8
Oct 30, 2012 John Callaham Ballmer says Microsoft is "All In" with Windows 8
Oct 30, 2012 John Callaham Now we will see a video showing off Xbox SmartGlass
Oct 30, 2012 John Callaham Nothing new here that we haven't reported on before
Oct 30, 2012 John Callaham But it looks cool
Oct 30, 2012 John Callaham But it looks cool
Oct 30, 2012 John Callaham Now Steven Guggenheimer is on stage
Oct 30, 2012 John Callaham he's the VP for developer and platform evanglism
Oct 30, 2012 John Callaham He's going to show off a few Windows 8 apps
Oct 30, 2012 John Callaham Shows off a Disney Phineus and Ferb game on the Surface
Oct 30, 2012 John Callaham side scroller game
Oct 30, 2012 John Callaham takes a game controller and puts it into the USB port on the Surface to play the game
Oct 30, 2012 John Callaham Now Steven brings up Skype
Oct 30, 2012 John Callaham Talks on Skype to Microsoft developer Golnaz Albeigi
Oct 30, 2012 John Callaham and now he is Skyping and playing the game on the same screen
Oct 30, 2012 John Callaham Showing Autocad on Windows 8
Oct 30, 2012 John Callaham taking notes on a Sony Windows 8 device
Oct 30, 2012 John Callaham He's talking about the financial terms of the Windows Store
Oct 30, 2012 John Callaham talking about Windows 8 in-app ads now
Oct 30, 2012 John Callaham using real money to pay for content in a Windows 8 game
Oct 30, 2012 John Callaham You can use PayPal if you don' want to fool with Microsoft's financial store
Oct 30, 2012 John Callaham ESPN app is next
Oct 30, 2012 John Callaham Michael Bayle, VP of ESPN, is on stage
Oct 30, 2012 John Callaham He's going over the bullet points for the ESPN Windows 8 app
Oct 30, 2012 John Callaham We are getting the first public look at this app, which has not yet been released
Oct 30, 2012 John Callaham lots of content planned: stories, podcasts, galleries and more
Oct 30, 2012 John Callaham seems to be wrapping up
Oct 30, 2012 John Callaham Ballmer is back
Oct 30, 2012 John Callaham showing off some of the apps in Windows 8
Oct 30, 2012 John Callaham TBS is coming, People magazine as well
Oct 30, 2012 John Callaham Expedia as well
Oct 30, 2012 John Callaham SAP will be coming, as well Dropbox
Oct 30, 2012 John Callaham Twitter confirmed it will make a Windows 8 app
Oct 30, 2012 John Callaham Ballmer believes that we will see growth in the PC market
Oct 30, 2012 John Callaham but even if PC growth is flat, there will be 400 million Windows 8 machines in the next year
Oct 30, 2012 John Callaham More and better marketing for Windows 8, Windows Phone 8 and Surface
Oct 30, 2012 John Callaham 100 GB of SkyDrive storage for free to all BUILD 2012 attendees :)
Oct 30, 2012 John Callaham Everyone is getting a Surface RT tablet
Oct 30, 2012 John Callaham Now we get a Windows Phone app presentation
Oct 30, 2012 John Callaham showing off Kid Corner
Oct 30, 2012 John Callaham Windows Phone 8 SDK publicly released
Oct 30, 2012 John Callaham Showing some app development for Windows Phone 8
Oct 30, 2012 John Callaham putting a grayscale filter to a photo in Windows Phone 8
Oct 30, 2012 John Callaham and showing how the code can be moved to all of the app's code
Oct 30, 2012 John Callaham more controls to Windows Phone 8 UI for better fast and fuild apps
Oct 30, 2012 John Callaham as well as better live tiles
Oct 30, 2012 John Callaham piloting a remote helicopter on the screen
Oct 30, 2012 John Callaham with Windows Phone 8
Oct 30, 2012 John Callaham Games for Windows Phone 8 are next
Oct 30, 2012 John Callaham Unity rep Tony Garcia is on deck
Oct 30, 2012 John Callaham showing off demo of first Windows Phone 8 using Unity 3D engine
Oct 30, 2012 John Callaham Showing a first person shooter running on Windows Phone 8
Oct 30, 2012 John Callaham Richard Kerris from Nokia is on stage
Oct 30, 2012 John Callaham Showing the Lumia 920
Oct 30, 2012 John Callaham gets a lot of applause
Oct 30, 2012 John Callaham Oh oh..looks like someone is getting more free hardware
Oct 30, 2012 John Callaham lowering registration for Windows Store to just 8 dollars for the next 8 days
Oct 30, 2012 John Callaham Another video about windows 8 app development
Oct 30, 2012 John Callaham That's it for the liveblog..cool stuff thanks for reading
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