After years of focusing on its own products and services, Microsoft is supporting the opposition. We have seen the company bring its most valuable assets over to Android and iOS. To really give more reach to developers, Microsoft has released a its Android emulator. Developers can use it to build their owns apps and see how they operate on Android. Microsoft included various Android functions to make the emulator operate as realistic as possible. This is part of the Visual Studio 2015 Preview.
Microsoft is also opening up software framework .NET, supporting OS X and inux platforms. In doing so, Satya Nadella & Co. are hoping to bring over a new audience of developers that would have otherwise stayed away from .NET.
Source: Microsoft Developer Blog (1) (2)
Via: The Verge
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