Microsoft has made some interesting announcements regarding their next version of Visual Studio (2015). Microsoft has announced that they will allow Apple iPhone/iPad apps and Android apps to be built for Windows: http://tcrn.ch/1JaMkXR

It sounds like Visual Studio 2015 will also allow developers to create apps for
iPhone/iPad and Android apps using C#:
http://bit.ly/1IpFK1w

This is interesting news. It's pretty cool, but I wonder if Microsoft will end
up shooting themselves in the foot by doing this. IBM did something similar in
the 90s by allowing OS/2 to run Windows 3.1 apps. Many software developers decided to just create Windows apps, since Windows was more popular.

Microsoft seems to be getting more and more cross-platform with their development tools. I've also heard that Microsoft is bringing Visual Studio to
Linux and Mac:
http://mashable.com/2015/04/29/visual-studio-code/

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This is interesting news. It's pretty cool, but I wonder if Microsoft will end up shooting themselves in the foot by doing this. IBM did something similar in the 90s by allowing OS/2 to run Windows 3.1 apps. Many software developers decided to just create Windows apps, since Windows was more popular.

They kind of have to do this if they want to stay relevant... They've lost a lot of developer mindshare over the years, and it'll be a long way to get back

Microsoft seems to be getting more and more cross-platform with their development tools. I've also heard that Microsoft is bringing Visual

Studio

to Linux and Mac:
http://mashable.com/2015/04/29/visual-studio-code/

VS Code is *NOT* Visual Studio ... it's a decent text editor (same core that Atom uses), but it's a far cry from the features that VS offers as a whole... though getting better TS/JS support in an editor. I tried it for a few days, and went back to sublime... I just don't like how the file switching works in that editor for "tabs". It was a better experience than when I'd tried Brackets and Atom in the past though.
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