From ComputerWorld: When Microsoft kicks off its annual developers conference Wednesday, it must show it has made progress on 2015's promises, analysts said today.
"They have to demonstrate that they're building momentum from both user and developer perspectives," said Jan Dawson, chief analyst at Jackdaw Research, referring to Windows 10 and pledges the company made last year.
At 2015's Build -- Microsoft's moniker for its developers conference -- the Redmond, Wash. company set itself a goal of putting Windows 10 on a billion devices by mid-2018, and trumpeted the "universal" concept as a solution to the weak app inventory inherited from Windows 8.
Under the "Universal Windows Platform" (UWP) nameplate, Microsoft has touted a write-once, run-many model under which a single Windows app works on the unified Windows 10 framework, whether the hardware is a PC, tablet, smartphone, game console or sensor. Microsoft has expended significant resources to bolster developer tools for writing such apps, including the upgrading of Visual Studio, the creation of cross-platform toolsets to port iOS and Android apps to the Windows ecosystem, and last month, the acquisition of Xamarin.
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