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First: Satya Nadella's keynote kicked off with him talking about ubiquitous computing The Microsoft CEO opened his keynote on Monday, Sept. 24, by saying, "Every place, whether it be the home or work, the stadium or a hospital, has got computing. [...]Microsoft's emphasizing the need to break down "silos" and approach computing from a data-first perspective If the Open Data Initiative wasn't clear enough, Microsoft is moving toward two ideas that free data for use and re-use: the Microsoft Search function aggregates results across all sorts of apps and contextualizes them using AI, keeping the user in one app but able to access and work from the information in others. [...]Microsoft's broken tasks out of individual apps to focus on seamless workflow One of the more compelling things about Microsoft Search is how it allows users to run application-dependent tasks from the search box.