Microsoft has launched a collaborative portal designed to facilitate networking among the developer community and offer expert advice in solving their queries.
The new portal, developer.microsoft.com,
While the portal is accessible to developers across the world, it will be more popular in countries like India where developer population is huge. Estimates say India has the second largest developer population with 1.6 million developers. Developers can easily connect to experts from Microsoft and address their issues.
Developers can bounce off their app ideas in a specially crafted area called “Perspective”. They can share stories through the social “Connect” area. The new portal provides and organizes content in a way that is easy to find, identify and collaborate with.
The site is designed to help developers engage and start building apps for the Microsoft platform more easily and intuitively. They can easily connect with Microsoft and identify content easily. The developer network will provide even more opportunity for the community to engage with Microsoft and with each other.
Microsoft is the only company that allows developers to leverage their existing skill set and easily reuse code to build apps and experiences. This code lights up experiences via quality apps across varied and multiple devices on the front end and offers unmatched symmetry between cloud and server at the back-end.
