Microsoft is executing on its vision of continually bringing the best of Microsoft to other platforms (not just Windows). Today is an important day in that journey. Several announcements were made today at Microsoft Connect () related to developer tools / platform. Here is a brief summary:
.NET / Visual Studio
- .NET Server distributions moving to Open Source projects and will be available for Windows / OS X / Linux
- Open Source community for future improvements to .NET framework
- Visual Studio Community 2013: full featured, fully extensible – available for FREE
- Microsoft Xamarin Partnership – Xamarin Starter Edition (Free)