The company’s developer conference opens in San Francisco with another round of AI tooling expected, against the awkward backdrop of how few people pay for Copilot.
Microsoft opened its annual Build developer conference in San Francisco on Tuesday, with Satya Nadella due to take the stage at 9:30am Pacific for a keynote that, by every signal the company has sent, will be about putting artificial intelligence into as many corners of its products as it can.
The conference runs June 2 and 3, in person and online, and is pitched squarely at the developers Microsoft needs to build on top of its platforms.
The broad direction is not in doubt. Microsoft has spent the past year reframing Windows as a host for AI tools and agents rather than a passive operating system, and Build is where it courts the developers who would write for that vision.
The 💜 of EU techThe latest rumblings from the EU tech scene, a story from our wise ol' founder Boris, and some questionable AI art. It's free, every week, in your inbox. Sign up now!Reporting ahead of the event, including from Reuters, pointed to new PC-side and cloud AI tooling as the centrepiece, the latest instalment in a strategy Nadella has pursued relentlessly since the company’s OpenAI partnership began.
