How to watch Microsoft Build 2026

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With Google I/O 2026 successful nan books, it's now Microsoft's move to delight (or terrorize) nan nationalist pinch caller AI features. Microsoft's Build 2026 developer conference starts Tuesday, June 2 astatine 12:30PM ET / 9:30PM PT pinch a keynote from CEO Satya Nadella. You tin watch nan keynote unrecorded via the Youtube stream embedded successful this article aliases travel on pinch Engadget's liveblog arsenic we respond and recap nan arena arsenic it happens. For moreover much information, Microsoft says it'll besides beryllium updating its ain blog pinch specifications of what it announces arsenic Build goes on.

Microsoft's yearly convention tends to beryllium drier than nan ones held by its competitors Google and Apple because it's geared towards developers. Nadella's keynote is expected to attraction connected nan opportunities nan institution is creating for that organization successful this "era of AI," an thought that mightiness not mean nan aforesaid point successful 2026 that it did successful 2025. Microsoft has publicly acknowledged a increasing backlash to Windows 11 and it's been adjusting immoderate of its AI strategy accordingly. The institution and OpenAI person transitioned into a much unfastened partnership arsenic of April 2026, and Microsoft has some redesigned nan endeavor type of Copilot and removed nan AI assistant from immoderate apps. Agentic AI will undoubtedly still beryllium portion of Microsoft's pitch, but nan models nan institution uses and wherever its features are disposable could look very different.

Build mightiness besides beryllium an opportunity to unveil caller hardware. NVIDIA is rumored to beryllium moving connected its ain Arm chips to rival nan likes of Qualcomm, and Microsoft seems for illustration it could beryllium a imaginable partner. Pavan Davuluri, Microsoft's Executive Vice President of Windows and Devices, recently teased that nan institution would person "something caller for developers" astatine Build, alongside an image of nan rounded area of immoderate caller portion of hardware. Separately, some the NVIDIA and official Windows accounts posted nan coordinates of Computex, a waste and acquisition show successful Taiwan that starts nan aforesaid time arsenic Build, pinch nan building "a caller era of PC." That's not rather a smoking gun, but intelligibly thing is up.

Something caller is coming for developers. And no, it's not a caller OS type 😅. See you astatine Build adjacent week! pic.twitter.com/gfY90ZyjZl

— Pavan Davuluri (@pavandavuluri) May 29, 2026

Microsoft Build 2026 runs from June 2 done June 3. A afloat schedule of nan talks, demos and labs Microsoft has planned is available connected nan company's website.