Microsoft Wants iOS Apps to Run on WP7

Microsoft Windows 7 Phone (WP7) has been promoted and trivialized by the experts, developers and users.

Among the major criticisms of Microsoft (Nasdaq "MSFT") play to remain relevant in a world going increasingly wireless applications is the lack of WP7, helping to make the operating system of a competitor in a tough fight, career by several horses.

To increase the chances of Microsoft, the company has created the first iteration of what is known as a "dictionary translation" to help developers iOS negotiate differences between the two operating systems, programming interfaces (APIs) and tools development.

Microsoft sees a way to increase the number of applications available for your platform is to help the developers of the IOS in the transfer or at least rewrite their applications to work in WP7.

Microsoft Windows 7 Phone (WP7) has been promoted and trivialized by the experts, developers and users.

Among the major criticisms of Microsoft (Nasdaq "MSFT") play to remain relevant in a world going increasingly wireless applications is the lack of WP7, helping to make the operating system of a competitor in a tough fight, career by several horses.

To increase the chances of Microsoft, the company has created the first iteration of what is known as a "dictionary translation" to help developers iOS negotiate differences between the two operating systems, programming interfaces (APIs) and tools development.

Microsoft sees a way to increase the number of applications available for your platform is to help the developers of the IOS in the transfer or at least rewrite their applications to work in WP7.

The first draft of the mapping tool categories and the Internet network and the user interface and data management technologies. Other areas, including audio and video, graphics and animation, performance and security, will be added later.

"For this first round focused on identifying the allocation of one to one, when it exists. In future versions will expand the field and at any time the concepts are very similar, we will make every effort to provide the necessary guidance," Post said.

In addition to the mapping tool, Microsoft is also distributing more than a 90-page white paper titled "Windows Phone 7 Guide to iPhone application developers."

similar tools for Google Android developers who want to write WP7 applications are also in the works, the cemetery added.

Microsoft development tools for WP7 have proved very popular among developers WP7.

The company argued in late March that its two main WP7 free development tools - Visual Studio Express for Windows Phone and Expression Blend 4 for Windows Phone - had been downloaded more than 1.5 million times.

In addition, some 36,000 developers have paid to be part WP7 application program developer.

Despite these figures, Apple still has more than 350,000 applications available on the App Store - a sharp contrast to the 15,000, or that the market Microsoft can muster.