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L'IA ne remplace pas les gens — elle casse les organisations en silence

Fri, 05 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Gartner nous dit que 20 % des organisations vont utiliser l’IA pour virer plus de la moitié de leur management intermédiaire d’ici fin 2026. En face, Sam Altman déclarait à Sydney le 26 mai qu’il était “content de s’être trompé” — l’apocalypse emploi qu’il annonçait, ben finalement, elle n’a pas eu lieu.

Les deux ont raison. Et les deux passent à côté du sujet.

L’IA ne supprime pas massivement les postes. Elle supprime les étages. Elle redessine l’organigramme sans que personne ait validé le plan. Et ça, on ne le verra pas dans les résultats trimestriels de 2026 — on le verra quand les organisations ne tourneront plus en 2032.

Retour sur la première de MS Build en France!

Thu, 26 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Voilà, la première édition de ce #MSBuild #SpotlightFrance s’est terminée.

Ce fut une édition épique, forcément la meilleure jusqu’ici :)

Il y a eu beaucoup d’annonces et de sessions passionnantes, en ligne et en présentiel, mais j’ai choisi de vous parler plutôt de tout ce qu’il s’est passé en dehors des annonces. Et donc, finalement, vous parler de ce que j’en retiens.

Pour les annonces, je vous recommande le book of news!

Mes premières impressions sur les Realwear HMT-1

Wed, 08 Dec 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Et voilà, j’ai lâché quelques teasers, maintenant je dois assumer. Nous sommes donc partis pour mes premières impressions au déballage de cet appareil étrange, un unboxing quoi :-).

J’ai pu donc, courtesy of Lenovo, avoir entre mes mains un Realwear HMT-1, et mener quelques essais :

mise en route et configuration manuelle
Installation d’une application, utilisation des lunettes avec un document PDF, et essais de base
Utilisation de la plate-forme Foresight by Realwear

Je parlerais sûrement de Lenovo Thinkreality, la plate-forme dédiée à la gestion des devices de XR, mais cela fera l’objet d’un second article, celui-ci sera déjà bien assez long.

Premières impressions sur les Lenovo A3

Mon, 04 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +0000

J’avoue, j’ai été très tenté de faire un titre clickbait sur ce coup… et je me suis retenu avec difficulté.

Alors voilà, j’ai eu l’occasion, grâce à Loic Beauvillain, de prendre en main ces nouvelles lunettes Thinkreality A3 de Lenovo, et voici un petit résumé de cette expérience.

Pour poser le décor, je manipule de manière plus ou moins régulière des Lenovo A6, les ancêtres des A3 donc. Et j’ai eu de multiples occasion de tester des Hololens 1 & 2, mais pas de manière prolongée. Je suis un tech, pas du tout du côté développement, et j’ai essayé de me positionner en tant qu’utilisateur des lunettes relativement standard.

Le cloud souverain, oui mais comment?

Mon, 25 Nov 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Si vous voulez déployer vos applications et services dans un cloud public, vers qui allez-vous vous tourner?

Très probablement vers l’un des 3 acteurs majeurs au niveau planétaire. Votre choix se fera sûrement pour des raisons politiques plus que techniques ou financières. Je dédierais sûrement un article à ces choix ultérieurement.

Le fait est que pour déployer une nouvelle application dans le cloud, le choix est finalement assez simple.

En premier vous avez la solution déjà indiquée : un des mastodontes américains. Problème, vous ne voulez pas forcément donner vos données, vos applications et votre argent à une multinationale, quelle que soit sa position vis-à-vis des questions éthiques et légales. Et dans un climat de défiance envers la globalisation, et une tendance à la relocalisation, il semble un peu hypocrite de s’appuyer sur eux.

Testing out Hololens

Mon, 01 Oct 2018 00:00:00 +0000

During the summer I had the chance to visit the Porsche Museum in Stuttgart. And specifically, to try out two technologies I had never experienced myself before. First we had a tour through the original Porsche workshop, and built some components of the 356. Of course, that was using VR glasses. I could not find the maker of the set, glasses and controllers, but they looked a lot like HTC’s Vive. Anyway, the VR experience is really immersive and you have to be careful not to try to run around with the headset on. The motion control needs some adaptation period, but after the first tries, you usually get very comfortable grabbing a hammer and forming the body parts of the 356, or holding the spray gun to paint your very own Porsche in your favorite color. Overall, a good experience, the only limitation I see would be how to interact with the real world, or rather how to avoid bumping into the objects around you. And of course, it is a fully immersive VR, so you cannot see your body inside, apart from your arms, as you handle the motion controllers. I can see some uses where you could have enough empty space around you to walk around and see a future building before the furniture and all the fittings are in. I was definitely more impressed by the Hololens, mostly because the mixed reality opens up a lot more usages. In that case the point was to be able to see inside an hybrid Panamera, and understand all the components and moving parts involved with the hybrid technology. I had seen a lot a demos using Hololens before, but I was really curious about the level of interaction, and the finesse of the controls using specific gestures. I have to admit the design is slick and the experience, although a bit disturbing, is both impressive and immersive. I say disturbing, as the fact that some of the real world in your vision is overlaid by a virtual object can feel a little strange at first. You quickly get used to it, but it might be an adoption issue when deploying this technology into a daily worker toolset. Nevertheless, I was able to quickly navigate around the car, see the insides and get some information and advice. The controls are pretty obvious and do not get in the way. And you are able to avoid anyone (or any wall) getting in your way while you tour the car. There are so many businesses and industries where this tech could be used : • Any maintenance team for very specific hardware and high complexity tooling in the industry : airplane engines, industry automatons, remote stations where you could send any technicians that would be guided by a remote expert etc. • Training for the same hardware, for your own maintenance team • Anything involving 3D design : architecture, fitting and refitting of stores and offices, in store merchandising to ensure the right placement of all the items and furniture • You could create guided tours, using augmented reality, to provide detailed information for the visitors Argh, so many ideas!!!

Microsoft Tech Summit France

Thu, 15 Mar 2018 00:00:00 +0000

As the summit has just closed its doors, I would like to share my feedback on this first Tech Summit to happen in France. As far as I know there are already Tech Summits in several other countries around the world. From what I have heard, they are supposed to be “local Ignite” events. For honesty’s sake, I have to say that I have not attended Ignite so far, only Tech-Ed Europe a few years ago, so I will not compare too much the two events. However according to the community website (http://aka.ms/community/techsummit) the sessions were exactly the same as the ones played at Ignite. I did not see any numbers published, so far, but it was a rather small event. Attendance to the first keynote on Microsoft 365 was not really high, however the Azure keynote attracted more people and the room was almost full. I had the feeling that Azure was more exciting than Microsoft 365, but maybe 9:30 was too early for most :) Or maybe I am biased toward Azure ;) The conference took place in one Hall from Paris Expo, on one level. And we were far from crowding it. As it was a free event, right in Paris, it seems that a lot of people came and went, just for a session or two, rather than stay for the whole two days. Which is rather smart, as it lets local people continue running their business, while being able to attend some sessions. And it lent a quiet feeling to the event itself. For once, I managed to attend a few sessions, and they were very interesting, very focused on a tight subject. I was never deceived by a catchy title enticing me to a session that had nothing to do with what I could expect. The speakers were a mix of Microsoft Corp and Microsoft France, most sessions were in English and we could interact easily with every speaker afterwards. Overall the sessions raise some good ideas for me to pitch, and subjects to talk about with my customers. I would have liked more technical sessions, but I think deep dives need a specific environment and public to be able to run properly. In conclusion, I liked the event overall, but I do not see it as attractive as Experiences. And it was much smaller! Also Experiences had been criticized has being less technical than the previous event it replaced, Tech Days. From my point of view, Tech Summit is on the same level as Experiences, just smaller and 6 months later (or earlier depending on how you look at it :) ) As usual, the strategy is a bit difficult to read, but the local speakers and content providers were present and accessible, which is almost always my first reason to come :) One final word about the technical levels used to sort the sessions : levels are standard, from 100 to 400, with 100 being introductory and 400 being expert. My advice would be to change the description as the level describes mostly the current knowledge you need to have about the product (Azure for example) than the depth of the session. 400 does not mean you will see live coding and the inners of the platform. It means that you know already where you’re going, and have probably already used the product.

Inspire '17

Fri, 11 Aug 2017 00:00:00 +0000

We are almost halfway of the first quarter for Microsoft Financial year, a month after the partner convention, which has been rebranded “Inspire”. Now that I am not a newbie any more, I can step back a bit and see past the awe of the first event. The setting this year was in Washington DC, which is great place for these kind of events. There are many hotels nearby, the city center is small enough to walk around, and there are many chic places for the evenings. This is not a travel blog, so I will not go further into the tourism information. This year we had decided, with our PSE, to have a lighter Microsoft agenda, and to be able to attend more sessions and impromptu meetings. I have to say that it was a wise choice. It allowed us to make new connections, to network quietly and to enjoy the Expo and the other partners. Note that I found it way easier to network this time, as our company was better known in the ecosystem, and we also had a better knowledge of the various people, names and acronyms used throughout Microsoft. This year I was able to attend several sessions, with different format : roundtables, breakout, demo theater, workshop and of course keynotes. The content was really good, though it is definitely not a technical event. The best way to have a technical discussion is to go to the Microsoft pods with a specific subject in mind and ask for an expert on that matter. Also these pods provide good help and advice on how to build or develop your business along the current track or toward a brand new scope (yes GDPR was a recurrent topic, I’ll write separately about that later on). I have met many amazing partners and vendors, through the social events, or on their booths and we have started to build new relationships that will hopefully help develop all our business and knowledge. Once again, it is an event where you have to be prepared, and be prepared to change your plans. First you need to have an idea of your goal beforehand. Do you want to find new partners within the ecosystem? Would you rather gian some traction or visibility in that ecosystem, both from Microsoft and from the other partners? Are you open to new business opportunities? Are you here to listen to the keynote and get a feeling of what is coming for the near future? Then, you need to build your agenda around that goal : sessions, meetings, events etc. But do remember to leave some room to be able to continue a discussion with an unexpected partner, or be ready to not attend a session live and see the recording, because something else popped up. And mostly, have fun :)

WPC 2016

Sat, 15 Apr 2017 00:00:00 +0000

It has almost been a year since my first Worldwide Partner Convention organized by Microsoft in Toronto. At the time, I wanted to share some insights, and some tips to survive the week. Before WPC, I attended multiple Tech-Ed Europe and VMworld Europe, in several locations over the years. WPC is slightly different as it is a partner-dedicated event, without any customers or end users. It gives a very different tone to the sessions and discussions, as well as a very good opportunity to meet with Microsoft Execs. As it was my first time, I signed up for the FTA (First Time Attendee) program, which gave me access to a mentor (someone who had already attended at least once) and a few dedicated sessions to help us get the most out of the conference. The buildup weeks In the months preceding the event, Microsoft will be pushing to get you registered. They are quite right to do so, for two reasons. First the registration fee is significantly lower when you register early. So if you are certain to attend, save yourself a few hundred dollars and register as soon as you can. Note that you may even register during the event for the next one. Second, the hotels fill up very quickly, and if you want to be in a decent area, or even in the same place as your country delegation, be quick! A few weeks before the event, I had a phone call with my mentor, who gave me some advice and opinion, as well as pointers on how to survive the packed 5 days. This helped me focus on the meetings with potential partners, and meetings with microsoftees, rather than on the sessions themselves. More on that subject later. During that period, you are also given the opportunity to complete your online WPC profile, which may help get in touch with other partners, and organize some meetings ahead of time. You also get the sessions schedule, which let you organize your coming days, and see what the focus is. I had the surprise, a few days before the event, to learn that we had “graduated” in the Microsoft partner program, from remotely managed to fully managed. So we had a new PSE (Microsoft representative handling us as a partner) which was very helpful and set up a lot of meetings with everyone we needed to meet from Microsoft France. This helped, for a first-timer, to be guided by someone who knew the drill. I was very excited to get there, and a bit anxious as we were scheduled to meet a lot of people, in addition to my original agenda with many sessions planned.