News from Microsoft's 2015 build Conference

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GDI_Lord
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News from Microsoft's 2015 build Conference

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So anyway, I was just casually reading the news last night... was reading the live blog of Microsoft's build event... wasn't expecting much... Probably pretty meh and disappointing again...

Visual Studio on Mac and Linux - I kid you not!
09:11AM PDT - demoing the Android emulator built into Visual Studio which runs Android on Hyper-V

09:12AM PDT - Visual Studio online lets you see insights into the app and how it is performing and to let you auto-scale based on parameters
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09:17AM PDT - now showing Visual Studio Code is now on the Mac

09:18AM PDT - and also on Ubuntu...

09:19AM PDT - This is not the full Visual Studio but still this is a big step for the company

09:20AM PDT - Visual Studio Code is going to be Free and available later today!
Win10 (and the Windows Store) will support Win32,. NET, Java, C++ and Objective C. And wow, an *Android* subsystem! Also, plug a Windows Phone into a display and it turns into a tablet/full on PC thanks to Continuum.
10:25AM PDT - the next tech for moving to the Windows Store is .NET and Win32 application support

10:28AM PDT - Third tech: Android Java/C++ integration

10:29AM PDT - Windows will have an Android subsystem

10:32AM PDT - Objective C support is the last tech

10:33AM PDT - you can compile code from iOS and have it run on Windows

10:34AM PDT - import Objective C right into Visual Studio with full text highlighting

10:36AM PDT - wow this is actually already been used for Candy Crush which has been in the store for a while now

10:36AM PDT - so not coming soon but already here
Read more, including about the impressive looking SQL Data Warehouse on Azure here:
www.anandtech.com/show/9201/microsoft-b ... -live-blog
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