"To further support cross-platform mobile development with .NET, as part of their strategic partnership, Microsoft and Xamarin..." I would be pretty shocked if

"To further support cross-platform mobile development with .NET, as part of their strategic partnership, Microsoft and Xamarin..." I would be pretty shocked if MS just suddenly dropped their won linux/mac implementation. Xamarin and the mono team have been working on this for a very long time. MS is just bringing them further into the "legit" fold