In an email sent to Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals (MVPs), the company stated: “In light of the challenges presented by covid-19, Microsoft has been closely monitoring the global situation under development and reevaluating the overall event strategy across the company … As a company, Microsoft made the decision to transition all external and internal events to a digital experience by July 2021 “. No in-person audience Events such as Build 2020, which is scheduled for May, will be held on a digital platform, where all guests interact through the internet. This was the same strategy recently adopted by Intel, which made a digital presentation to announce its new Comet Lake-H notebook chips. Microsoft’s presence at international events, such as Computex and CES should also take place digitally, as well as the Surface event and the presentation of the Xbox Series X. Covid-19 fires in the USA In recent weeks, the number of infected with covid-19 in the United States has risen much more than in any other country. Currently, there are 368,533 confirmed cases. Spain, the second country with the highest number of infected people, has registered 140,510 cases so far, far less than half. In the metropolitan area of New York alone, nearly 3,500 deaths due to covid-19 have been reported.
