It's just the latest way Microsoft is reaching across the aisle to former rivals to win over programmers. Visual Studio is how a lot of programmers get work done, particularly those building software for Microsoft Windows or the web.īringing Visual Studio to Apple MacOS, the operating system preferred by many programmers, is going to turn a lot of heads. The blog has since been taken down, but a cached version remains via Google. The news will be announced at Microsoft's Connect conference later this week, but it was revealed early when the official blog entry went live a few days before. Microsoft is bringing Visual Studio, its widely used tool for writing software, to Apple's Macs.
Xamarin co-founder Miguel de Icaza on stage at Microsoft Build in 2014
