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Nothing in this press release points towards such an implementation. Mono and Linux aren't even mentioned in the entire article. This is all about C# -> Android/iOS. In fact, it weakens the future of Mono by making Xamarin stronger in MS's ecosystem with the whole VS 2013 integration and MSDN subscriptions.

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This.

It's hard to see this as anything except Microsoft playing 'me too' with app developers as people flock away from their CLR for mono.

It's good for c# developers, there's no doubt, but I'm suddenly wary now; I can well imagine a future where Xamarin is bought by Microsoft and their tools become Microsoft lock in. That's not a future I'm enthusiastic about.

Android is built on top of Linux, though.

The kernel, not the userland. Writing for Dalvik is very different to writing for GNU/Linux.

Xamarin on Android runs on Mono directly on the kernel. It skips Dalvik

I knew it could (with Xamarin's thing they did rewriting Android in C# to test performance) but I didn't know that's how it worked for the stuff you build with their tools. That's awesome.

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