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Microsoft Buys SyntaxTree

By TechTaffy Desk

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Microsoft has acquired SyntaxTree, developers of the UnityVS plugin for Visual Studio.  UnityVS enables Unity developers to use Visual Studio to author, browse and debug the code for their Unity applications. The Redmond giant says it will make the existing UnityVS plugin available for free on its download site. The SyntaxTree team will be joining the Visual Studio division.

The Unity cross-platform game engine is used by over two million developers.

[Image courtesy: Microsoft]

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