Microsoft Anunces Cross-Platform Add-Ins for **** Apps, Plans to Bring iOS Apps t - اخبار التقنية

ahlam1399 · #1 04-30-2015, 02:51 AM

Microsoft An**unces Cross-Platform Add-Ins for ****** Apps, Plans to Bring iOS Apps t

Microsoft held its annual BUILD conference for developers this morning, where it made several an**uncements that may be of interest to Mac and iOS users. First off, the company an**unced Cross-Platform Add-Ins that will deeply integrate third-party Apps and services into multiple versions of ******, including ****** for iOS.

Microsoft's Add-Ins (which can be thought of as plug-ins) will enable a range of third-party services to integrate with ****** on *******, iOS, Android, and presumably Mac when the new ****** 2016 is released. For example, Uber might be built into Outlook, letting users call for rides directly from their calendar appointments. A**ther example shown on stage was PicHit, an app offering a photo marketplace within the PowerPoint app.

Microsoft An**unces Cross-Platform Add-Ins ******

Uber in Outlook, image via The Verge
The implementation sounds similar to Apple's own use of app extensions, letting third-party Apps interact with Microsoft's offerings in new ways, but with Microsoft's tools, Add-Ins created for one platform will work on all platforms. On stage, third-party Apps integrated into ****** were shown off on an iPad and an iPhone 6.

According to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, deep Cross-Platform app integration is aimed at preventing users from needing to jump from application to application to accomplish tasks. The company's vision is to make it easier to use ****** Apps and various services regardless of the device the software is being run on, turning ****** into a platform.

Microsoft is also planning to make it easier for developers to Bring their iOS and Android Apps over to ******* 10, its upcoming Cross-Platform operating system, by releasing new tools. iOS developers will be able to compile Objective C code using Microsoft's Visual Studio to quickly create Apps compatible with ******* 10.

On stage at the conference, Terry Myerson demonstrated an iPad app that had been converted to a ******* 10 app. Getting Android Apps on ******* 10 is even easier, as ******* 10 includes "an Android subsystem" to support Java and C++ code Android Apps are already built from. App availability has always been the major downside to Microsoft's ******* mobile devices, as they lag behind iOS and Android when it comes to the number of Apps available.

The introduction of tools to make it simple to port existing Apps over to ******* 10 could be a huge boon for Microsoft, growing its App Store exponentially in the coming months.

Microsoft's final Apple-related an**uncement was the introduction of a Mac version of Visual Studio Code, its former *******-only coding app. According to Microsoft's site, the app is free and aimed at letting developers build and debug modern web and cloud applications.