(Announced) Universal Windows App Across All Windows/Xbox Devices

[theNoid]

http://live.theverge.com/microsoft-build-2014-live-blog/

Microsoft announced at the Build conference that with a simple re-compile of your application it will run across Windows, Windows Phone and Xbox devices. Universal apps, in that buy it on one platform and use it anywhere.

 

[nerdydesi]

It's about time. It looked pretty bad for Microsoft when iOS and Android applications could work across tablets and smartphones but not for Windows.

 

[elzeus]

Hopefully their store launches sometime this year. I think it took Apple about a year to launch their App store on the original iPhone. Looking forward to new dev apps/games and PLEX!

 

[Armenius]

Though a single app can run across all four platforms, you may have to pay for access to the different platforms separately. Microsoft said that developers could require a user to pay for their app on both a phone and PC or have a single purchase grant access to them both.

So developers can still force you to pay more than once for the same app on different devices. Apparently this is just to help developers to not utilize as much resources to develop different cross-platform versions.