Microsoft serves up Taco for cross-platform mobile dev

Providing an assist to mobile developers, Microsoft is offering a set of utilities for Mac OS X and Windows users to build apps with the Apache Cordova platform.The company has released Tools for Apache Cordova CLI 1.0.0, or Taco, that enable developers to build with a set of platforms and plug-ins backed by Microsoft's Visual Studio product team. Apache Cordova features APIs enabling development of native mobile applications using HTML, JavaScript, and CSS.[ Digital Spotlight: Enterprise mobile