Microsoft: Windows 10 will offer software creators more support for universal apps

Windows x promises to fulfill Microsoft's goal of giving app creators support for making universal apps that tin can run from everything from small smartphone to big 80 inch screens. Indeed, the company has already admitted that Windows x will also exist the adjacent big version of Windows Telephone.

In a blog post directed at app developers, Microsoft said that Windows 10 will continue the visitor'south efforts towards offering truthful universal apps. It stated:

"Universal Windows apps and the ability to leverage the same code to evangelize appropriately tailored experiences to multiple device types were the centerpiece of that annunciation. They continue to be the cornerstone of the single Windows application platform announced by Terry (Myserson) and Joe (Belfiore) today. The almost of import thing you should take from today's announcements is that the all-time mode to set up for Windows 10 is to keep edifice universal Windows apps."

The web log added that Windows 10 will give app developers "i consistent API layer with consequent UX pattern surfaces and flexible tools" in improver to allowing those apps to run in a windowed style on the desktop, along with one download store that will make "it easier for you to reach customers in consistent and compelling ways no affair what type of device they're using."

When Microsoft launches the Windows 10 Technical Preview on Wedneday, the company recommends that app developers do not utilise it as their main Os for work, saying, "The Windows App Certification Kit does not currently work on Windows 10 and at that place also a few bugs in the tools which mean that this combination can't be used for 'get alive' software development." Too, not all of the visual UI that will be put into the last version of Windows 10 will be available in the Technical Preview.

Do you retrieve app developers will encompass Windows 10 more than Windows 8 or Windows Phone?

Source: Microsoft

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