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Why would MSFT needs Xamarin if their own tools are exceptionally good?

Cross-Platform mobile development ?

MS still don't understand the meaning of the word "cross-platform".

They will support all and any platforms as long as they are windows.

They will support all and any platforms as long as they are windows.

Don't let reality stand in the way of your irrational bigotry.

But in case you'd like to learn something new - here is the pricing for hosting Linux servers on Microsoft's Azure system:

It works very well and is price competitive with Amazon EC2.

Except we were talking about cross platform applications - , which MS is just beginning to reluctantly pursue.

But hey, lets turn paraphrased Henry Ford one liner into bigotry accusations.

Microsoft is contributing patches to support Hyper-V virtualization to the FreeBSD kernel to allow FreeBSD VMs to run on Azure: