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in recent years Microsoft has traveled San Francisco in hopes of trying to get developers to build apps for Windows has a really worked out every year but this year they've got a new trick up their sleeves to Windows 10 this conference is all about celebrating the creativity the ingenuity that you all bring so the biggest announcement of the week has definitely been Microsoft bringing Android and iOS apps to Windows it's not quite as simple as it sounds and they basically trying to get developers to port their apps to windows and run them there you will be able to compile the same objective-c code that's being used in iOS applications within visual studio on Windows it's kind of a disruptive thing and you books you got the two powers and the mobile web which is Android and iOS and Microsoft really wants to grab those developers and get them onto windows whoever it's going to work hmm we're seeing it could end up with a mishmash of apps on on Windows Phone and no real identity and no real like design ethos or anything like that but Microsoft really hoping this is their last chance to really get these apps on windows and to get people buying windows phones aside from the mobile stuff when it's 10 obviously spans across PCs tablets phones and Xbox one and this week we kind of got the first official name for the project Spartan browser which is a successor to internets bra so now it's called Microsoft edge I might just keeping the kind of circular II logo that they had with ie for like the familiarity of like your grandma using an explorer's when I left kind of weird logo i don't if they're going to keep it around like they picked it so it's probably here to stay in terms of Microsoft edge it's news clean it's simple you can have extensions coming by the end of the year so much just really cleaned its act up with the browser and it's bringing some is that that's new and fresh and bit more simple than in the Explorer has been in the past because Windows 10 runs across pcs phones tablets wherever you want there's some interesting new things that might just kind of doing with it so one of them is continuing for phones which is essentially an interface that will allow you to plug your phone into a monitor and keyboard and mouse and it'll be an interface that stretches from the phone to the pc so instead of getting your phone interface on a monitor you get like a PC in two ways you can launch Excel Word and that sort of stuff and use it as a pc so it's kind of cool and what wasn't cool this week is that Michael didn't really give us a release date for other stuff so the phone stuff is coming later this year the pc stuff is coming this summer and summers pretty broad we've heard like AMD CEO say end of July we've personally heard July 29 Thursday we'll see if Microsoft makes that but I think Windows 10 is going to come in pretty hot it's going to have a lot of updates to it and not all the features going to be there straight away and then the final piece of the windows 10 puzzle is hollow lens somites will shade it back in January and it's progressed somewhat in a hundred days since then so it's now headset I've tried it on i'd say i've spent about fifty percent of the demo trying to adjust it for my eyes and get the field of view right and i think that's kind of the one thing that i noticed from the demos this time around back in january i could look around and everything felt a little bit more immersive but this time it felt like i had to have the hologram in a certain position and i had to move to that and it didn't feel like it was part of the world necessarily so i think that's going to be the struggle with colin ends and some of the demos were cool i can inflate fishes ever put stuff on the walls all that sort stuff it's cool but i think there's still some work to go and we don't know what's inside it we don't know how much it's going to cost or when it's are you going to arrive so there's still some questions around Halloween's it's cool it's exciting but they're still there's still some work to be done there Microsoft really knows where needs to do and it's kind of tried to put that on show this week whether it really entices mobile developers this time who knows this is kind of like their last chance really and if they go another year or two without the apps across their platforms and Windows becomes even more relevant than it is now they've done a lot of the exciting stuff this week they've shown a lot of exciting stuff they're looking towards the future I think Microsoft knows what it needs to do is just really whether developers are interested or not