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I just signed-up with HockeyApp this morning and have been very impressed with the experience. Congratulations to the team!

Previously we'd been using TestFlight for iOS and the PLsy Store's built-in beta-test functionality for Android, but it is convenient to have one service that supports a range of mobile OSs and a lower-friction deployment process.

When TestFlight was bought by Apple, they fairly quickly abandoned support for non-iOS pltforms. I'm confident that Microsoft isn't short-sighted enough to do something similar.

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Microsoft realizes it has to be cross platform... Most important change since the new CEO arrived :)

Except that change was already well under way long before the new CEO arrived ;-)

They didn't went all in ( Office = milk cow), they did a huge shift now with Satya Nadella.

That is a fundemental change vs. a change from the inside ( before it was pushed because some people grasped the concept and they were allowed to try it out)

Yeah it was shortly after Satya taking over that MS Office for iPad was released. They'd obviously had the code there, but the authority to actually get it out seemed to be lacking.

No, they just needed the new face to kick things off, so everybody can attribute the change and believe.

EEE. Watch and learn. This is why Microsoft will never die, no matter how hard some people's wishful thinking.

Sad but true. Ballmer could have done the same things but wouldn't have got the same response.

It generally takes Microsoft years to do things. Anyone who doesn't realize all this stuff was already a long way down the pipeline needs hitting with a cluestick ;-)

> Except that change was already well under way long before the new CEO arrived

Nadella didn't emerge out of nowhere, he was already an executive at Microsoft and was driving many of the kinds of changes that have accelerated since he became CEO even before becoming CEO.

From: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/somasegar/archive/2014/12/08/microso...

"We will integrate HockeyApp into the Application Insights service in Visual Studio Online to expand Application Insights support for iOS and Android." Seems to me they're positioning themselves for more cross platform development.

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