Android developers who use Microsoft Visual Studio now have more choice. They can opt for Microsoft’s cross-platform toolset or use an Android development add-on recently released as open source.

Microsoft has increasingly become more open to other, rival platforms, for better or for worse. And it's not just its normal software. It is even embracing this new perspective with its development ...

Microsoft updated its lightweight, open source code editor with a new tooling extension that provides support for building hybrid cross-platform mobile apps with Apache Cordova. In its new era of ...