Not in my experience. I’ve made Mac OS apps on my Windows PC and I’ve made iOS apps without actually writing a single line of Swift/Obj-C.

Yeah that would be the first order of business. Hoping MS will continue adding new and meaningful features as they do with the Windows version of VisualStudio every year.

based on the screenshot, it’s clearly still all Xamarin Studio. Everything is laid out exactly the same

from what I understand, it literally is rebranding of xamarin, but I also assume that this is where the development will continue moving forward

This looks like it’s basically just a rebadge of Xamarin Studio, who Microsoft bought earlier this year. This is not a bad thing by any means, but it’s not strictly a new product. I’ve been using Xamarin Studio for a few years and it does the job well enough. I work on Xamarin apps and website and api work, and you…