Build 2014 Registration is Now Open

Last month we announced that Build 2014 will be back at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, April 2 – 4.  Hopefully you’ve saved the date on your calendar, because registration is now open at www.buildwindows.com! 

Build is our premier developer event, targeted at people who want to create experiences that span PC, tablet, phone, console, server, and cloud, and at this year’s event we will share what is coming for Windows, Windows Phone, Windows Azure, Windows Server, Xbox, Visual Studio and more. Perhaps even more importantly, we’ll be talking about what Microsoft is doing to protect your technology investments, regardless of their form: tools, skills, language preferences, code, and apps, to name a few. One of the key ways we’ll do this is through client platform convergence around a common core – spanning the application platform, browser platform, apps, and APIs – in a way that makes it easy to reuse your skills and existing code .   This means it will be much easier to build one app for all Windows devices while at the same time having the ability to take advantage of device-specific capabilities across form factors, screen sizes, and local hardware functionality.

We’re excited to share our progress and how the strategy is continuing to evolve, creating even greater efficiencies and of course, opportunity, which is what Build is all about.

We’ll share more in the coming months, but know that Build is a can’t miss event for anyone who wants first hand access to what’s coming next from Microsoft.

Get yourself registered today!

www.buildwindows.com

Comments

• Anonymous
  January 14, 2014
  Hi Steve - thank you for the update.  I would like to put in an impassioned request for one change in how Build has operated in previous years.  With the live-streamed keynotes and 24-hour streamed sessions, the value-proposition (and manager cost justification) for a conference like Build skews heavily towards Networking.  However, Build seems to have pursued a "secret schedule" approach over the last few years, not even publishing details about the non-session evening activities until the conference actually begins.  This approach hamstrings vendors' abilities to plan and book events that serve as crucibles for the conference networking.  I realize that there is some tension that drives the need for some confidentiality in the scheduling, but would it really hurt to publish the skeleton of the overall conference schedule, as well as a complete view of the evening events?

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• Anonymous
  January 14, 2014
  MS really needs to focus on having useful sessions developers care about at this conference. I've attended the last two, and although I really enjoy the announcements, the lack of a schedule beforehand is problematic. The lack of schedule and often lackluster sessions left me with the impression that the event was thrown together at the last minute. For instance, I attended a session last year about the new features in Visual Studio, and the presenter didn't even know about the async debugging or return value capture features for .NET- I had to find out from reading concurrent blog posts online, and the presenter was surprised when I brought up the features to her. I hope you guys put more effort into making something really useful this year, in addition to the usual announcements. Your customers want more focus on the desktop and server-side, and a lot less focus on building Windows 8 apps, which is clearly not where most of your customers lie. That all being said, I'm really hoping to hear Anders talk about the future of C# and TypeScript at this year's conference!

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