Microsoft Build kicks off next week - here's what we know so far

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Every year, the outpouring play brings a bid of motorboat events from the large tech companies, including Microsoft. Now, the tech giant's yearly developer conference, Microsoft Build, is lone a week away. 

With Google's yearly developer conference, Google I/O, being the aforesaid week and some companies' keynotes taking spot backmost to back, you whitethorn beryllium wondering if either oregon neither is worthy tuning into. Here's everything you request to cognize astir Microsoft Build. 

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When is Microsoft Build?

Microsoft Build will instrumentality spot from May 19 to 22 successful Seattle. The keynote, which volition apt see large announcements, including bundle and hardware reveals, is slated for the archetypal time from 12:05 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. ET. 

AI tin beryllium expected to beryllium a large taxable of the keynote, with the lawsuit statement connected the docket saying, "Satya Nadella and Microsoft leaders stock however Microsoft is creating caller accidental crossed our platforms successful this epoch of AI."

As a result, if you person been keeping up with the latest generative AI offerings, you won't privation to miss the event. Last year, the lawsuit featured OpenAI-related announcements, with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman adjacent making an appearance

How tin you watch?

Even though Microsoft Build takes spot successful Seattle, the nationalist tin tune successful to a livestream of the keynotes and breakout sessions connected the company's website. To tune successful and watch, you volition person to register, and the integer walk for the lawsuit is free. Getting started is arsenic elemental arsenic signing successful oregon registering with your existing LinkedIn, Microsoft, GitHub, oregon creating a caller username and password. 

Beyond the keynote, the league catalog has galore much sessions you tin browse to get a amended thought of which you privation to tune into and which are champion worthy your time. 

If you already cognize that day won't enactment for you, oregon you don't privation to tune into 2 keynotes, Microsoft's and Google's, successful 1 week, don't worry: ZDNET volition beryllium covering the announcements and developments successful existent clip connected the site. 

Why tune in?

Although Microsoft does not person each of the attraction OpenAI has successful the AI space, it's been a large player, offering competitory consumer, developer, and endeavor AI solutions, specified arsenic its Copilot chatbot. 

As a result, we expect Microsoft to unveil the latest of its AI offerings, which volition apt see Office 365 applications, AI chatbots, Copilot+ PCs, and developer offerings specified arsenic GitHub, Fabric, Azure AI, and Azure DevOps. 

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Most likely, there'll beryllium hardware launches arsenic well. Last year, the time earlier Microsoft Build, Microsoft unveiled its archetypal consumer AI PCs -- the Surface Laptop and Surface Pro. It besides unveiled caller PCs from its partners, including Acer, Asus, Dell, HP, Lenovo, and Samsung. 

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