Microsoft Adds Ethereum to Windows Platform For Over 3 Million Developers
Millions of Microsoft developers are now able to build decentralized applications using the Ethereum blockchain thanks to a collaboration between the software giant and ConsenSys, announced today. By building Ethereum’s Solidity programming language for writing smart contracts directly into Mircosoft’s Visual Studio platform, developers will be able to build, test and deploy decentralized applications, or dapps, within an integrated environment they already know how to use. But don't think this is a money play for either ConsenSys, or Microsoft, at least not yet. In a conversation with....
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