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Unsurprisingly, Microsoft's Build 2020 virtual event took place this week, where the firm announced new things coming to Azure, Edge, plus much more. Be sure to catch up via our overview.

It wouldn't be a Microsoft developer-focused event without announcements focused on security. As such, Azure AD External Identifiers, the GA of the Azure Secure Score API and more have been unveiled.

As part of the array of announcements from its dev-focused Build event, Microsoft shared that an Azure Mixed Reality solution is now GA, and that HoloLens 2 is heading to more markets this year.

The Redmond giant's full-stack open ecosystem aimed at developers who want to leverage both the power of the cloud and quantum computing, Azure Quantum, is now available in limited preview.

At Build today, the software giant unveiled an array of infrastructure improvements for its Azure cloud, covering Azure Stack and Stack Hub, Azure Peering Service, Azure Monitor and more.

At its Build 2020 virtual conference, Microsoft announced a slew of Azure dev tools enhancements from .NET 5 Preview 4 to GitHub Discussions, Visual Studio Codespaces, and much more.

Microsoft has enhanced its set of offerings in the Learn Platform. Learn TV is a daily online program for developer discussion, while the Student Ambassadors Program is a peer community initiative.

Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare combines features from Microsoft 365, Dynamics, the Power Platform, and Azure. The solution is available in preview starting today, with GA slated for later this year.

A bunch of services in Microsoft's cloud IoT space are getting new capabilities. These include Hub, Central, Maps, and Digital Twins, among others, with Windows for IoT receiving updates as well.

Not only have Microsoft's Bot Framework and Service been updated, but new AI functionality and language capabilities have been introduced for apps that leverage Azure Cognitive Services as well.

Microsoft has announced new capabilities to its cloud-based machine learning platform. A new project to advance machine teaching methods has also been released in the form of a public preview.

The new supercomputer is noted to be the fifth most powerful publicly disclosed one across the globe, and it represents a key milestone in Microsoft's partnership with independent research org OpenAI.

With regards to Azure analytics, new features to report at Microsoft's Build 2020 conference include an HTAP implementation dubbed Synapse Link for Cosmos DB, along with general Synapse improvements.

As far as enhancements to its cloud database offerings are concerned, Microsoft has introduced new PostgreSQL and MySQL features, along with further capabilities for Cosmos DB as well.

Microsoft's Build 2020 developer conference is going to be an online-only event, but there will still be breakout sessions. With the virtual event just five days out, the schedule is not live.