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Microsoft To Acquire Xamarin (phoronix.com)

Posted by yaelk on from the announcements dept.

New submitter androlinuz writes: Microsoft has signed an agreement to acquire Xamarin, a leading platform provider for mobile app development. In conjunction with Visual Studio, Xamarin provides a rich mobile development offering that enables developers to build mobile apps using C# and deliver fully native mobile app experiences to all major devices, including iOS, Android, and Windows. Xamarin's approach enables developers to take advantage of the productivity and power of .NET to build mobile apps, and to use C# to write to the full set of native APIs and mobile capabilities provided by each device platform.

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  1. Pulling an Elop by Prien715 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Looks like Miguel de Icaza has officially become part of Microsoft. Maybe he can pull a Elop and get Windows 11 to use Gnome as its desktop environment.

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    1. Re:Pulling an Elop by Caesar+Tjalbo · · Score: 3, Funny

      Yep. This being Slashdot, I expected this story's title to be "Miguel de Icaza at long last officially a Microsoft employee".

      tftfy

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  2. Wow by bickerdyke · · Score: 2, Funny

    fully native mobile app experiences to all major devices, including iOS, Android, and Windows. Xamarin's approach enables developers to take advantage of the productivity and power of .NET to build mobile apps

    Wow.

    Someone ha d a second glass of the cool aid.

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