In Episode 179, Ben and Scott discuss some of their favorite announcements from Microsoft Build 2020 including Azure Static Web Apps, Microsoft Lists, improvements to Teams, and more!

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- [Ben] Welcome to Episode 179 of the Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast recorded live on May 22 2020. This is a show about Microsoft 365 and Azure from the perspective of IT pros and end users. Where we discuss the topic or recent news and how it relates to you. In this episode, despite focusing on IT pros, Ben and Scott talk Build 2020 News, including Azure Static Web Apps, Microsoft List improvements to Teams and more.

- [Ben] Now we're supposed to come up with some intro, we've ruined it.

- [Scott] So...

- [Ben] So build was this week.

- [Scott] Build was this week. There was some fun stuff at Build.

- [Ben] What do you say about them apples? How about them List? Or how about them Static Websites and Azure App Services.

- [Scott] So those are actually pretty cool.

- [Ben] They are spun one up the other day.

- [Scott] Yeah?

- [Ben] There were some, cool Build stuff. So we figured, why not talk about cool Build stuff? Because that's what all the cool kids are doing right now, right?

- [Scott] There you go. Well, that's it. Why be trend setters when you can be trend followers?

- [Ben] Exactly. It's way more easier to be followers. It's a lot less work.

- [Scott] It is less work to be a follower. It's hard to gain followers.

- [Ben] Although we've managed to do a decent job I think!

- [Scott] There's always next week.

- [Ben] There is always next week. I'm sure we could bomb it pretty quick. Kinda like that thing with your grades, right? You fail one test and your grade like drops in half and then it takes forever to recover. I bet you could do the same thing with followers.

- [Scott] You could. Although I think grades are a little bit easier right now. I don't know how you're all handling it with homeschooling? But it seems like from what I've seen with my kids, and certainly my wife's school, they're kinda at the point where, I mean it's end of the year anyway. So, all grades were due last week that kinda thing. But it's really hit just that point where everybody has been doing this remote thing for a while, and you could have potentially had, like a month and a half to two months of a child that never showed up online, but they still turned in their work and did things, right? They never showed up to any of the online meetings or whatever it was. So what do you do like with those kids? They do the work, but was the meeting the participation? What does that look like? And how does that come through for grades? And it's a very interesting thing. So some of it's like, "They turned in the work. "Here's an A." Right.

- [Scott] "At least they opened it up, that's a B. "They didn't look at it, they didn't turn it in. "Well, still kinda put 'em through, so that's a C."

- [Ben] Yeah. So we've been talking to a bunch of our friends, 'cause we have friends in the neighborhood, friends from church, all of that, that their kids go to school and they're like, "I could never home-school." And, frankly, we don't envy them. Like the situation, you guys found yourselves in, is way more challenging than what we were in. Because my wife's been working with my kids all year, she knows exactly where they are, she has it all planned out, it doesn't really change anything. She's just continuing to work with them, and she knew exactly what place they all were and what they had to do to finish up and she can make sure there's the participation there 'cause she also wasn't working. Her work was her four kids and homeschooling, where you guys it's like, well we both still have to work, We have to try to help our kids keep learning, but yet we have absolutely no idea what our kids were nece...