According to the U.S. technology news website TheVerge, so far, Microsoft has not yet announced the date of the development conference, but Twitter focused on Microsoft Dynamics, exposed Microsoft's invitation to the conference. The picture shows that Microsoft's BUILD development conference this year will be May 7 to 9 held.
Like last year, this year's conference was located in Seattle, Washington, not far from Microsoft headquarters, and earlier Microsoft had held development conferences in San Francisco, Silicon Valley.
At the annual BUILD development conference, Microsoft will announce to third-party developers an upgrade roadmap for key products, future major development strategies, and new development tools, etc. In addition to developers, a large number of global enterprise IT staff Will also focus on Microsoft's assembly.
Microsoft's conference focused on software and development, etc. For Microsoft hardware, which is of interest to average consumers, Microsoft tends to rearrange a new conference in the fall.
It is worth mentioning that, Microsoft's development conference this time, and Google's I / O Conference in the conflict, before Google has announced that this year's assembly time is from May 8 to May 10, the location is located in the headquarters of California Mountain View City.
Windows ecosystem and Android ecosystem are two different application ecosystems. With the failure of Microsoft's smartphone plan, Windows is more for computer users and enterprise applications. Android development is more targeted at smartphones, It is expected that the time conflicts between the two companies' conventions will not cause too much impact on the development community.
Foreign media also pointed out that the conflict between Microsoft and Google development conference may be a coincidence.Considering the venue booking and other factors, the two companies may be a few months ago to determine the date of the meeting, the time conflict is unlikely to compete for development The competitive move.
It should be noted that Microsoft has also become one of Android's largest developers and Microsoft has placed Android and Apple iOS as important as its "mobile-first cloud-first" strategy due to the failure of the Windows 10 Mobile and Lumia mobile plans Platform, Microsoft has put all the important software all launched for Android and iOS.
At this year's BUILD Development Conference, Microsoft's keynote address will be what is currently unknown.