This is why Microsoft's purchase of Xamarin is huge for the future of Windows 10

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We all thought it was happening last year. At /BUILD one of the most pervasive predictions was that Microsoft would announce that it was acquiring Xamarin (rumors go back to 2014) the increasingly popular cross-platform toolset that allowed developers with a C# background to build for multiple platforms with a shared C# backend.
It didn't happen.

However, Microsoft did announce an increasing partnership with the Xamarin team, and began building integration into Visual Studio 2015 including support for an Android emulator within our IDE (interactive development environment) of choice.

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