It seems that Microsoft wants to be the center of your universe regardless of what platform you’re on. I cite these as examples:
- The MSN suite of apps (News, Sports, Health & Fitness, Food & Drink and Money) is now available on iOS and Android; MSN Weather is out on Android, with an IOS release coming soon.
- Office is now available on every platform that I can think of except maybe LINUX. That includes Apple and Google’s tablets which would have been unthinkable a short time ago. Even the Mac version of Office which was always the red headed stepchild of Microsoft doesn’t suck.
And today, they just bought HockeyApp. No Canada, it’s not an app related to your national pastime. It does something far more important for Microsoft:
Based in Stuttgart, Germany, HockeyApp offers a range of mobile development services enabling developers to develop, distribute, and beta test great mobile applications. This includes:
- Crash reporting. Fast and precise crash reporting with easy app integration, rich crash analysis and support for connecting directly to existing workflows and bug tracking systems.
- Distribution and feedback. Beta distribution and built-in user feedback system.
- Cross-platform. Support for iOS, Android, and Windows Phone provides a consistent developer experience across mobile devices.
In the coming months, we will introduce new iOS and Android SDKs for Application Insights based on the features of HockeyApp. Application Insights offers a 360-degree view of application usage, availability, and performance across both client and server/cloud application components. Integrating HockeyApp crash reports with Application Insights usage analytics will extend device support for Application Insights across all major mobile platforms and make application analytics an ambient part of the application development cycle with support for all tiers of a modern “mobile first, cloud first” solution.
So what this purchase will do is help Microsoft beef up their ability to come out with apps for non Microsoft platforms. Thus further enabling them to dominate the world. Or at least make lots of money which is just as good I suppose.
My, have times changed in Redmond.
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Microsoft Spreads Out To iOS & Android…. Buys App Company Too
It seems that Microsoft wants to be the center of your universe regardless of what platform you’re on. I cite these as examples:
And today, they just bought HockeyApp. No Canada, it’s not an app related to your national pastime. It does something far more important for Microsoft:
Based in Stuttgart, Germany, HockeyApp offers a range of mobile development services enabling developers to develop, distribute, and beta test great mobile applications. This includes:
In the coming months, we will introduce new iOS and Android SDKs for Application Insights based on the features of HockeyApp. Application Insights offers a 360-degree view of application usage, availability, and performance across both client and server/cloud application components. Integrating HockeyApp crash reports with Application Insights usage analytics will extend device support for Application Insights across all major mobile platforms and make application analytics an ambient part of the application development cycle with support for all tiers of a modern “mobile first, cloud first” solution.
So what this purchase will do is help Microsoft beef up their ability to come out with apps for non Microsoft platforms. Thus further enabling them to dominate the world. Or at least make lots of money which is just as good I suppose.
My, have times changed in Redmond.
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