At its Build developers conference earlier this year, Microsoft said it would soon provide necessary tools to help developers port their existing apps over to Windows.
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For more information on the new Windows Bridge tools jump over to the Windows Developer website for details.
Microsoft has released part of Windows Bridge, a tool for porting iOS applications to Windows 10, under an open source licence.
Microsoft today is encouraging all developers on iOS to check out Windows Bridge for iOS as well as Windows 10 and developer tools.
“Also known as Project Islandwood, WinObjC is intended to “[make] it easy for iOS developers to build and run apps on Windows“, per the blog post describing the release.
To be clear, earlier versions of Windows did offer DVD playback capabilities baked in, but then Windows 8 was released and the company decided to save a buck by passing the cost to users. “We will, of course, continue to work to expand our iOS compatibility, but it’s important to note that there is much more you can do with the bridge”. It is announced as an open source project, and its components are now available for download. Microsoft’s Android bridge is now available as a technical preview by invitation only, and Microsoft is planning to get those on the waitlist access by the end of the month.
Back in 2004, the Microsoft Company was fined by the European Commission for anti-cooperative, because they’ve included the Windows Media Player into the Windows XP OS. The fact that they are not building apps for the platform means that users don’t have a reason to use the Windows platform. Windows 10 has a whopper of a problem: Its app store is bad.
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Windows 10 has been getting a lot of buzz lately; users have taken the free upgrade from Windows 7 and 8 in droves, and after the first 24 hours of being released, nearly 14 million people were using the new operating system.
