Breaking out of its Windows ecosystem, Microsoft has introduced a version of the Visual Studio development tool that can run on Linux and Apple Mac machines.

While Visual Studio integrated development environment (IDE) was built to help developers create Windows applications, the new Visual Studio Code is free and designed to simplify how developers deploy their code to Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform.

Microsoft introduced the new software at its Build 2015 conference, being held this week in San Francisco.

The software supports “dozens of languages” and comes with many of Visual Studio’s advanced features, such as the IntelliSense code suggestion tool. It also offers full support of the open source Git code management repository, said Scott Guthrie, executive vice president of the Microsoft cloud and enterprise group, during a keynote at the conference.

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