Microsoft will also unify the development of apps for Windows and Windows Phone

This week we've told you that Microsoft plans to merge the Windows Phone and Windows Store app stores into one big app store for the entire ecosystem of devices with Microsoft operating systems.

Today we expand the information since not only are these stores going to unite but we are also going to experience what will be a unification in application development lines. In other words, the application development process will be unified for Windows and Windows Phone, an important step for developers and therefore end users.

Developer support, platform success

Microsoft is planning to unify the SDKs and APIs to make a single app store available to the entire Windows ecosystem, including desktop PCs, laptops , tablets, mobiles and probably Xbox One.

This is great news for developers as they will only need to develop an app for all devices if they adhere to the new guidelines of development that Microsoft will dictate and in this way it will be compatible and installable on any Windows device

This move is very similar to how Apple de alt with iPad development in that developers only need to develop the app for iPhone and later co-develop it for iPad offering support for both devices under the same name and being a single application.It is a necessary measure if Microsoft wants to take the right direction of supporting developers and better catalog of apps for its users.

At the moment it is not known when this change will take place but it is known that it will come with the next version of Windows, that is, not Windows 8.1 but its successor, which could be Windows 8.5 or Windows 9 or the Windows 8.1 GDR version expected to arrive next year 2014

Making life easier for developers is a giant step for a platform with a large ecosystem of devices and this ends up having an impact on a greater number of applications that will also be compatible with all devices that run the operating system Windows either x86, RT (ARM) or Windows Phone.

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