Microsoft will bring applications from mobile phones to Xbox

During the three hour conference of Build 2014, Microsofthas had more than enough time to make all kinds of presentations and announcements. One of the most applauded has been that of the universal applications for Windows A concept that allows users to carry the same application through different platforms or devices with system operating Windows without the need to create a new one for each case.A success that can multiply the possibilities of tools and developers in the near future.

Thus, as it had been rumored months ago, Microsoft has been working on being able to create or modify applications to adapt them tosmartphones, tablets and computerswithout too much trouble, using the same code and with small adjustments that the developer can do without major headaches. However, they have also confirmed the possibility of even bringing them to their desktop game console in the future, the Xbox One A question that has different implications and many possibilities.

In the first place, the user could benefit from the same experience and services of a tool through the different devices in your homeIn addition, since it would be the same modified application, its cloud service would not change, taking the information of interest through the different screens without anything changing beyond the format and, on some occasions, the control thereof. All this without having to pay for the same application on different devices. Although according to Microsoft this will be a possible option.

For developers it's quite a giant step. And it is that with a tool that allows them to quickly and comfortably modify their application to adapt it to the different screens and controls, the extra work involved is greatly reduced create an app from scratch for each platform. It also means taking your service to more users, through more channels. Some changes that, as could be seen at the conference, seem easy to carry out thanks to the tool developed by MicrosoftAll this without losing possibilities such as micropayments

In this way, and taking advantage of most of the application created by the developer, the developer can use the tools of Microsoft to modify its appearance and adapt it to the different possible screen sizes. All of this always keeping in mind that in the case of computers it is possible to use the keyboard and the mouse to move around the application, something they have also thought about . In the same way, the tool created by Microsoft will have useful features to adapt the operation of an application for the Xbox One , being the movement recognition device Kinect one of the possible assets to control and access the services of said application.

At the moment Microsoft has started distributing Visual Studio , your tool to be able to adapt applications to different platforms.Although we will have to wait for the arrival and extension of Windows 8.1 and Windows Phone 8.1 to start to see unified tools. It is unknown if there will be a union of application stores from this moment, although during the conference they did explain how the process of publishing the same tool has been simplified in Windows Store and Windows Phone Store