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Microsoft's Miguel de Icaza, who joined the Windows giant earlier this year with the Xamarin acquisition, has announced new features for cross-platform development using Visual Studio, Xamarin Studio and C#. Xamarin brought a set of C# libraries, tools and compilers to Microsoft, enabling developers to target iOS, Android and …

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  1. Tom Chiverton 1
    WTF?

    "enabling developers to target iOS, Android and Mac using shared code"

    So Windows Phone *is* dead ?

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      Of course it is. Even the French don't care about the handful of remaining windows phone users...

      France releases terror alert app ahead of Euro 2016 - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-36479720

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  2. Ian Ringrose

    If this had been done by Microsoft 5 years ago……

    These days the fist choose must be HTML based UI even in apps, much that I hate the mess that the "standards" are.

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  4. Karl Proctor

    Does this mean Microsoft is starting to mothball Visual Basic?

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  5. Anonymous Coward
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    It's for the developers!

    Well done MSFT for freeing devs from having to maintain multiple sets of code to target Windows, iOS and Android/Chomebook.

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      Re: It's for the developers!

      Just burden end users with bloated non native looking apps instead.

      I can spot an xamarin app a mile off, and 9 time out of 10, the app sucks.

      So use it at the risk of losing your users to proper native apps from your rivals....

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