A longtime concern about Windows Phone has been a shortage of apps in the Windows Store, but Microsoft on Wednesday took a big step to change things.

Developers of iOS and Android apps will be able to bring their apps and games to Windows 10, Microsoft’s next operating system that’s designed to run on Windows Phone, laptops and other devices, the company announced at its Build developer conference. Windows 10 is expected sometime this summer, but phones running Windows 10 are not expected until later in 2015.

Four new software development toolkits will allow developers to bring their code for iOS, Android, the Web, .NET, and Win32 to the Windows Store with “minimal code modifications,” Microsoft promised.

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