Microsoft to acquire Xamarin?

[sprtfan]

ScottGu's Blog - Welcoming the Xamarin team to Microsoft

Saw this posted on another site and thought I'd share.

 

[Spectrum90]

Bad news for Windows fans.

 

[wpfan86]

Pardon my ignorance, but what's the significance of this?

 

[Spectrum90]

Microsoft is buying tools to write apps for iOS and Android with Microsoft's programming languages and libraries.