Here is one more reason to be interested in the new version of Windows.
The announcements made by Microsoft during the BUILD conference are so numerous that one can easily get lost. But among those most interested me, there are those concerning its strategy in the mobile.
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First point , which has already been explained by Eric , Microsoft will greatly facilitate the porting of iOS and Android mobile applications on Windows.
Indeed, Visual Studio will enable developers to automatically translate Android code (Java) and Objective-C code for Windows code.
But that's not all . Microsoft also announced a feature called Continuum.
This will allow the user to use a smartphone as a CPU that can for example connect via HDMI to a screen. Add to that a keyboard and a mouse and you get a computer, almost.
The concept is however not new . With Ubuntu Edge smartphone (which was abandoned for lack of funds), Canonical wanted to offer a smartphone mobile version of its OS but which could also rotate the desktop version of Ubuntu once connected to a screen. One could also mention Andromium , which allows to do the same with an Android smartphone.
This time, it's Microsoft that gets going and for once it could really go far. The limitation is that Continuum does not fully reproduce the environment "desktop" of a computer.
More exactly, it will not launch Win32 applications. Instead, it will use the so-called universal applications or "apps Windows" (in some ways the evolution of Metro apps) like being on a real computer.
This is possible thanks to this notion of Microsoft universal application that allows developers to code applications that adapt to different platforms Windows 10. Proof.
The only problem is that this feature is not necessarily compatible with older smartphones.
The announcements made by Microsoft during the BUILD conference are so numerous that one can easily get lost. But among those most interested me, there are those concerning its strategy in the mobile.
See This : BQ Ubuntu Phone is now available for anyone
First point , which has already been explained by Eric , Microsoft will greatly facilitate the porting of iOS and Android mobile applications on Windows.
But that's not all . Microsoft also announced a feature called Continuum.
This will allow the user to use a smartphone as a CPU that can for example connect via HDMI to a screen. Add to that a keyboard and a mouse and you get a computer, almost.
The concept is however not new . With Ubuntu Edge smartphone (which was abandoned for lack of funds), Canonical wanted to offer a smartphone mobile version of its OS but which could also rotate the desktop version of Ubuntu once connected to a screen. One could also mention Andromium , which allows to do the same with an Android smartphone.
This time, it's Microsoft that gets going and for once it could really go far. The limitation is that Continuum does not fully reproduce the environment "desktop" of a computer.
More exactly, it will not launch Win32 applications. Instead, it will use the so-called universal applications or "apps Windows" (in some ways the evolution of Metro apps) like being on a real computer.
This is possible thanks to this notion of Microsoft universal application that allows developers to code applications that adapt to different platforms Windows 10. Proof.
The only problem is that this feature is not necessarily compatible with older smartphones.