Microsoft schedules Build 2019 developer conference for May 6-8 in Seattle

For the past two years, Microsoft has hosted its Build developer conference in Seattle, rather than in San Francisco. Three is a trend: The company today announced that Build 2019 will once again return to the company’s home state of Washington, scheduled from May 6 to May 8, 2019. Registration opens on February 27.

There was a big problem last year, however, and it wasn’t the location. Microsoft’s Build overlapped with Google’s I/O developer conference (May 7 to May 9 versus May 8 to May 10). This caused headaches not just for publications like VentureBeat that cover both events, but, more importantly, developers who wanted to attend both. Many Windows developers are of course also Android developers.