New Delhi, March 4 -- Microsoft has announced the dates for its annual Build developer conference. The tech giant has not only pushed the dates of the conference back from its usual May timeline to June but also shifted the venue out of the Seattle area.

The event will now be held on 2 & 3 June in San Francisco at the Fort Mason Center.Microsoft had announced its decision to take the conference out of Seattle last year due to issues with homelessness and cleanliness.

GitHub COO Kyle Daigle, while speaking to The Verge on the shift from Seattle to San Francisco, said, "Build has been in many different locations over the years, but it clearly has an identity with the Seattle area, but like with everything in software, it's a little bit of...