In an effort to strengthen the company’s Azure cloud platform, Microsoft announced it is joining the Linux Foundation as a Platinum Member to better collaborate with the open source community and welcoming Google to the independent .NET Foundation.
The company will also work with Samsung Electronics to enable .NET developers to build apps for more than 50 million Samsung devices worldwide.
These partnerships, along with a new series of products announced at its annual Connect developer event, will contribute to building intelligent, cross-platform apps and services, said Microsoft Cloud and Enterprise executive vice president Scott Guthrie.
Microsoft’s new Visual Studio for Mac enables developers to write cloud, mobile and macOS apps on Apple’s Mac operating system using the popular development environment.
Guthrie also previewed the next version of the company’s flagship SQL Server database with support for Linux, Linux-based Docker containers and Windows-based environments; and a preview of Azure App Service on Linux with support for containers.
“We want to help developers achieve more and capitalize on the industry’s shift toward cloud-first and mobile-first experiences using the tools and platforms of their choice,” Guthrie said. “By collaborating with the community to provide open, flexible and intelligent tools and cloud services, we’re helping every developer deliver unprecedented levels of innovation.”
Microsoft’s membership in the Linux Foundation will benefit customers through increased collaboration and innovation among a diverse ecosystem.
Also, the addition of Google to the .NET Foundation’s Technical Steering Group reinforces the vibrancy of the .NET developer community as well as Google’s commitment to fostering an open platform that supports businesses and developers who have standardized on .NET, Microsoft said.
Other industry leaders are also betting on .NET Core for their own commercial products. Samsung, for example, is releasing a preview of its Visual Studio Tools for Tizen. Developers can use the tools to build .NET apps for the Tizen operating system that runs on millions of Samsung TVs, wearables, mobile devices and many IoT devices around the world.
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