Microsoft Giving Away Xamarin for Free
Good news for all mobile app developers. Microsoft has announced that they are giving away Xamarin on a free basis. According to a report by The Inquirer, the Redmond-based multinational technology company revealed the news during the second day of the Build 2016 developer conference.
Microsoft recently closed a deal with the California-based software company and corporate Vp Scott Guthrie did the honors of unveiling the big news wherein he told the attendees about the C#-based mobile development platform Xamarin being available for free now. This means that every Visual Studio user will now have easy access to the Xamarin Studio.
"We officially closed the Xamarin acquisition about 10 days ago, so we can now officially share plans. Starting today, I can officially announce we're going to be making Xamarin available at no extra charge," said Guthrie.
Market Exclusive also reported that the free offer applies to all the Visual Studio Editions including Visual Studio Enterprise, Visual Studio Professional and the Visual Studio Community Edition. Eventually, the free status will then be extended to Xamarin Studio for OS X from Apple Inc. via the community edition.
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Through the free availability of the Xamarin, the apps that developers create can be tested without the need for multiple operating systems and various programming tools. As of the current, there are already more than 15,000 customers who are subscribed to Xamarin including big companies like Coca-Cola Co and JetBlue Airways Corporation. Guthrie also revealed the highlight of the things that they intended to announced during the event.
He said, "Like we've already done with ASP, .NET, Entity Framework, C# and Rosyln, and the core .NET runtime, we'll also make Xamarin's core platform open source and contribute it as part of the .NET Foundation."
Microsoft's big surprise for the developers and other attendees really made an impact because it means that the future of mobile apps may never be the same again.
