Microsoft Acquires Xamarin

Microsoft announced its acquisition of Xamarin, a company co-founded by Miguel de Icaza and Nat Friedman, which provided tools for cross-platform mobile development using C#.

Significance

This acquisition brought Xamarin's mature cross-platform mobile technology, including Xamarin.Forms, directly into the Microsoft ecosystem, laying the essential groundwork for the future unification vision that would become .NET MAUI.