Microsoft, Google cosy up in the Skia lodge: 2D lib added to build tools

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 …

[Tom Chiverton 1]

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

So Windows Phone *is* dead ?

[Anonymous Coward]

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

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[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.

[Karl Proctor]

Does this mean Microsoft is starting to mothball Visual Basic?

[Anonymous Coward]

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.

[Anonymous Coward]

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....