I think this is big news and of interest to our community since Xamarin provides a cross platform IDE + Tookit. Also, of all the other (than Delphi/Free Pascal) languages out there I feel C# is the next most acceptable with proper PME/generics/other stuff.

http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/welcoming-the-xamarin-team-to-microsoft

I expect their price to come down, maybe even into the free price range, as a result of this acquisition.
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Anthony Walter wrote

I expect their price to come down, maybe even into the free price range, as a result of this acquisition.

Skepticism: what software became better after acquisition by Microsoft?

thanks,
Dmitry
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Dmitry Boyarintsev wrote

Skepticism: what software became better after acquisition by Microsoft?

This is bad news. Microsoft's top interest is likely to be in bundling Bing into Xamarin.

MonoDevelop might have to provide their own builds from now on.

Skepticism: what software became better after acquisition by Microsoft?

Flight Simulator
Direct3D
Halo

All game related.
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This is quickly going off-topic.
If you want to answer this question please use fpc-other.

Mattias

Il 24/02/2016 22:49, Mattias Gaertner ha scritto:

> Skepticism: what software became better after acquisition by Microsoft? This is quickly going off-topic. If you want to answer this question please use fpc-other.

Or better alt.destroy.microsoft ;-)

Giuliano

Sarcasm: Delphi Language became C# ....

-Michael

I cannot resist chipping in here but i honestly cannot think of ONE thing thati mproved following a microsoft acquisition, truespace(acquired in 2008 or thereaboiuts) abandoned. no longer supported despite it being well regarded by many. oh and look what happenned to the "partnership" between Microsoft and Nokia!! MS has had( and probably still has a habit of) acquirng( or attempting to acquire) any company or entitiy that it sees as a potential threat, then grinds that company or entity to the ground.
end of rant. ;-)