Microsoft will hold online all events until July 2021

The Pandemia of Coronavirus forced technological companies to cancel the public events planned for spring and summer 2020 or to transfer them online. Microsoft decided to go further - the corporation plans to hold online all internal and public events until July 2021. About this writes The Verge .

According to the publication, such a decision of the Microsoft management means that in September, an online mode will host a conference for developers of Microsoft Ignite. The presence of the corporation at the Taiwanese exhibition Computex 2020, which was moved to September due to pandemia, will also be virtual. Next year, Microsoft will not participate in the CES in Las Vegas and will hold your Build conference online. In the same mode, this conference will pass this year. Finally, the Inspire conference planned for July was canceled in Microsoft and has not yet made a decision on the possibility of its implementation using a video link.

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Recall that most Microsoft employees are now working from home. To organize their labor and conduct various meetings and events in online mode, the company uses the Microsoft Teams service, designed for teamwork in remote mode.

According to the latest data, 1.36 million cases of a new type of coronavirus coronavirus are registered in the world. The leaders in the number of cases identified are the United States (368 thousand cases), Spain (more than 140 thousand cases), Italy (132.5 thousand cases) and Germany (103.4 thousand cases). In total, 76 thousand people died from coronavirus, and 289 thousand patients were cured. In Russia, there are officially there are 7497 infected with coronavirus, 58 dead and 494 recovered.