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by avip 2943 days ago
Which MS acquisition did make sense? Skype? Nokia? LI? Yammer?
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davidgay 2942 days ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_PowerPoint#History
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clbrook 2943 days ago
Xamarin
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evilmushroom 2942 days ago
I have literally had a mobile team threaten to quit if we adopted Xamarin after they built a small app in it lol.
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dagaci 2942 days ago
Xamarin can be pretty tough if you don't have a good appreciation of Xcode, iOS and UWP development and tooling, and underlying differences.
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evilmushroom 2940 days ago
Oh, they understood it, top tier mobile devs, they just thought it was trash. Drastically preferred to do native. I went to bat for them, and we shipped a beautiful app on time.
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nickcox 2943 days ago
aQuantive
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scarface74 2943 days ago
https://money.cnn.com/2012/07/02/technology/microsoft-aquant...
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