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Windows 10 Can Run Reworked Android and iOS Apps
An anonymous reader writes with this interesting news from Microsoft. After months of rumors, Microsoft is revealing its plans to get mobile apps on Windows 10 today. While the company has been investigating emulating Android apps, it has settled on a different solution, or set of solutions, that will allow developers to bring their existing code to Windows 10. iOS and Android developers will be able to port their apps and games directly to Windows universal apps, and Microsoft is enabling this with two new software development kits. On the Android side, Microsoft is enabling developers to use Java and C++ code on Windows 10, and for iOS developers they'll be able to take advantage of their existing Objective C code. 'We want to enable developers to leverage their current code and current skills to start building those Windows applications in the Store, and to be able to extend those applications,' explained Microsoft's Terry Myerson during an interview with The Verge this morning.
they're probably talking about wanting to run Android/iOS apps on Windows 10 phones.
a.k.a. "a better DOS than DOS" and "a better Windows than Windows." That did not end well.
What I'm reading is that MS has all but given up on Windows as a mobile development platform for the sake of being able to run Android/iOS apps.
It also serves as a tacit acknowledgment that MS isn't connecting with mobile developers, and that mobile apps drive mobile platforms.
I buy Windows Phone because of the UI. It's about a decade ahead of Android and Apple's "lots of little random icons on a grid" thing that most people still tolerate for some bizarre reason.
I don't respond to AC's.
To me it still doesn't make sense why they call the desktop OS Windows 8/Windows 10 and the phone OS Windows 8/Windows 10. Why they have two types of tablets: one that runs Windows 8 and can thus run Windows 8 programs, and another that runs Windows 8 and thus can run Windows 8 but also applications of Windows 8. Unfortunately the first tablet with Windows 8 can't run Windows 8 programs because the Windows 8 programs have to be completely rewritten in another language. On the phones with Windows 8 you can also only run Windows 8 programs and none of the Windows 8 programs.
They did the same thing with Outlook. You have Outlook which is web mail, and you have Outlook which is a mail client. You can use Outlook on its own or you can use Outlook to check Outlook mails. Outlook can check any mail, and you will have to configure Outlook to receive your mails. Outlook on the other hand is just web based and after registering for an account you can check your mail online.
And they also have Skype and Skype. Skype is a consumer oriented VoIP product while Skype is a business oriented VoIP product. You can not log in with your Skype account on Skype, neither can you use your Skype account on Skype. But I don't know for sure about this last statement, I have never used Skype, only Skype, but it might be that you can use Skype accounts on Skype.
I think it would also be a wise choice to rename the Windows servers OS to Azur, now it's way too confusing with those different names.
Maybe they will once launch their own social media and call it SharePoint, so you have SharePoint and SharePoint, SharePoint is a collaboration tool, while SharePoint is a social media...
Just modded you up because: (1) I rather like the Windows Phone UI and (2) because Microsoft did it's own thing while Google just aped what Apple was doing. I'm going to get down-modded into oblivion for pointing that last part out but I saw early Android prototypes and they were very clearly Blackberry killers.