Great news if true. I've always thought MS should be more involved in the Mono/Xamarin platform. It makes far more sense for MS's mobile strategy than adding An

Great news if true. I've always thought MS should be more involved in the Mono/Xamarin platform. It makes far more sense for MS's mobile strategy than adding Android compatibility to WP. Instead, encourage devs to create a single .NET app that can be deployed to Android, iOS, and OSX, in addition to first-class support on WP and W8. You'd lose out on the current hot apps, but for the future it makes sense. For instance, several Nokia X Android apps were ported from their WP counterparts using Xamarin - http://blog.xamarin.com/nokia-x-for-csharp/ http://blog.xamarin.com/nokia-x-for-csharp/ . My only concerns if this were to happen are, * What happens to Mono on Linux, BSD & OSX? Does Mono simply become a deployment target for mobile devices? * What happens to MonoDevelop? Will VS be the only way to develop such apps? * What about the web? I'd love to see a Mono port to pNACL or asm.js. An NACL port already exists, but it would be great to have one codebase targeting almost all platforms. Either way, as someone considering using .NET with ServiceStack on the backend and Xamarin on the frontend, it's very exciting.