Killing a well functioning piece of technology instead of open sourcing it is not just downsizing. MS is applying their "Embrace, extend, and exterminate" strategy to cross platform mobile development.
That's ridiculous, what % of software companies open source the software they kill? 0.1% maybe? Did Google open source Reader or Dodgeball when it killed those?
Google was heavily criticized for killing Reader. Why should we not criticize Microsoft?
Criticize them all you want but "Feels like the MS of the 90's is back." isn't criticism it's FUD meant to invoke fears of how closed down software was back then.
It's not FUD if it's true.
It happens all the time, companies unload unwanted or unaligned assets to focus on their roadmap and strategies. RoboVM should pick a page from Xamarin and buy out IP and support from mothership.