Microsoft Partners: Xamarin Could Be Game-Changer For Mobile, Cloud Developers

Grazed from CRN. Author: Kevin McLaughlin.

Microsoft, by either acquiring or investing in mobile app development startup Xamarin, would help developers tap into a ton of new mobility and cloud computing opportunities, according to some partners. Xamarin’s tools make it possible to code iOS and Android apps using Microsoft’s Visual Studio and C# programming language.

In addition to letting .Net developers write code for multiple platforms, Xamarin could get iOS and Android developers on board with coding Windows Phone and Windows 8 apps. Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer was famously resistant to working with rivals’ platforms, but partners think buying Xamarin would be a great way for new CEO Satya Nadella to show developers things are going to be different under his watch…

"Explicit targeting of multiplatform development in Visual Studio would be visionary, courageous and a fantastic piece of outreach to the developer community," Andrew Brust, CEO of Microsoft analyst firm Blue Badge Insights, New York, told CRN…

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