This year, Microsoft is making major investments in developer and cloud tools to move beyond Windows and bring great support to iOS developers and other popular platforms. As part of this focus, Microsoft is sponsoring Altconf this week and will be there to show you some of the cool new services and free tools to help you take your apps to the next level.
I also want to thank Microsoft for sponsoring the Beard Bash party on Monday June 8th. Life may run on code, but we all know developers run on beer.
If you cannot attend Altconf or the Beardbash, you can learn more about what is possible at http://AnyDevAnyApp.com.
Can you say Microft is trying to win back developers that jumped to iOS! Microsoft also wants iOS developers to Windows phone store too.
Microsoft is transitioning itself from a software company to a services company (or, at the very least, as a SaaS company). They blew the mobile device revolution and they need to take the one field that isn’t being disrupted right now and strengthen their position in it.
Microsoft’s app support for iOS is very indicative of this move. But, if the bonus is that developers get comfortable with Microsoft’s services and decide to spin up Windows Phone versions of their apps, it’s just an added bonus.