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I think it's much more of a "I already write C#, so now I can write apps for other platforms without needing to learn their language!" That leads to further ev

by nathas 12y ago

I think it's much more of a "I already write C#, so now I can write apps for other platforms without needing to learn their language!" That leads to further evangelism at conferences, more talk about how C# is great and the platform is excellent, etc. I think they hope to persuade entire dev shops to switch over, rather than single devs, in a very long-term sort of way -- even if it's just a small percentage that change, the press is potentially worth it. MS has an image problem, and this would help mobilize their core to speak to more of the good parts.

zmmmmm 12y ago
This is my interpretation: Microsoft's biggest threat right now is that to be a viable mobile developer at the moment you pretty much need to buy a Mac and embrace OSX. Once you have done that you are obviously not running Visual Studio any more but will be using XCode and cross platform tools like Eclipse. Then you are further extremely unlikely to write things in C#. So this is about saying to the existing C# developers, "don't leave, don't buy a Mac, we are going to support you to write everything you need (Android, iOS etc.) without leaving the comfort of Visual Studio".