Microsoft opens a free Build 2020 subscription

According to Engadget , program manager Scott Hanselman stated that the conference will begin at 22:00 on May 19 and will have 48 hours of programming, including sessions, talks and demos hosted by the company's engineers. Anyone can sign up for Build 2020 starting today and it's free. In previous years, Build's entrance fee was $ 2,395.

The event will start with a keynote from CEO Satya Nadella. According to Theverge , Panos Panay Product Manager will also appear at Build 2020. The company will host Twitch seminars and attendees have the right to connect with Microsoft employees if they need to ask questions or fix them. Incident one of their projects.

According to Hanselman, this year's Build will be the place to gather the community of developers to learn, connect and code together.

Build 2020 is not the only technological event that must be switched to streaming due to the Covid-19 pandemic when many developer conferences have been delayed or even completely canceled. For example, Google originally planned to host an I / O 2020 conference online, but the company recently decided to cancel the event entirely. Currently, Apple is planning to only host WWDC 2020 online, but that could change in the future.