<story><title>Microsoft Acquires Xamarin</title><url>http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/welcoming-the-xamarin-team-to-microsoft</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>shanselman</author><text>Nonsense. The last 5 years show it&amp;#x27;s a whole new Microsoft.&lt;p&gt;Disclaimer: I have been one of the ones pushing the last 5 years to make that statement true. ;)</text></item><item><author>niels_olson</author><text>or its embrace extend extinguish?</text></item><item><author>Avalaxy</author><text>Yes indeed, right now Xamarin is very very buggy and also pretty slow. I think the software will get MUCH better if the teams at Microsoft will start working on it.</text></item><item><author>solutionyogi</author><text>As someone who works in .NET ecosystem, this is HUGE.&lt;p&gt;I think there is huge synergy [1] to be exploited by combining Xamarin&amp;#x27;s team with language&amp;#x2F;compiler design&amp;#x2F;visual studio team. I think MS is extremely well positioned to be a leading development platform across desktop&amp;#x2F;web&amp;#x2F;mobile in the &lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;enterprise space&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt; with this acquisition.&lt;p&gt;[1] Never thought I would ever use that word in a comment.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nitrogen</author><text>With respect to the progress made by some MS divisions (and the people pushing for it), it seems not all of MS is keeping up.  For example, this was on HN today: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=11167964&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=11167964&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s hard to trust that the currently good sides of MS will be allowed to stay good while other sides of MS are still behaving badly.</text></comment>
<story><title>Microsoft Acquires Xamarin</title><url>http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/welcoming-the-xamarin-team-to-microsoft</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>shanselman</author><text>Nonsense. The last 5 years show it&amp;#x27;s a whole new Microsoft.&lt;p&gt;Disclaimer: I have been one of the ones pushing the last 5 years to make that statement true. ;)</text></item><item><author>niels_olson</author><text>or its embrace extend extinguish?</text></item><item><author>Avalaxy</author><text>Yes indeed, right now Xamarin is very very buggy and also pretty slow. I think the software will get MUCH better if the teams at Microsoft will start working on it.</text></item><item><author>solutionyogi</author><text>As someone who works in .NET ecosystem, this is HUGE.&lt;p&gt;I think there is huge synergy [1] to be exploited by combining Xamarin&amp;#x27;s team with language&amp;#x2F;compiler design&amp;#x2F;visual studio team. I think MS is extremely well positioned to be a leading development platform across desktop&amp;#x2F;web&amp;#x2F;mobile in the &lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;enterprise space&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt; with this acquisition.&lt;p&gt;[1] Never thought I would ever use that word in a comment.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>XzetaU8</author><text>&amp;quot;A newsletter entry dated 26 December 2012 states: &amp;quot;MS [Microsoft], working with the FBI, developed a surveillance capability to deal&amp;quot; with the issue. &amp;quot;These solutions were successfully tested and went live 12 Dec 2012.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.theguardian.com&amp;#x2F;world&amp;#x2F;2013&amp;#x2F;jul&amp;#x2F;11&amp;#x2F;microsoft-nsa-collaboration-user-data&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.theguardian.com&amp;#x2F;world&amp;#x2F;2013&amp;#x2F;jul&amp;#x2F;11&amp;#x2F;microsoft-nsa-c...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Noticed how this date is withing those 5 year of &amp;quot;It&amp;#x27;s a  whole new Microsoft&amp;quot; mantra you guys chanting over and over?</text></comment>