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Re:Mono 5.0 Ships with Concurrent Garbage Collector by romanovcode on Saturday May 20, 2017 @10:23AM (#14382490)
Microsoft had XNA. That didn't turn out too well for them.
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Re:Mono 5.0 Ships with Concurrent Garbage Collector by pjmlp on Saturday May 20, 2017 @11:27AM (#14382798)
XNA died due to internal Microsoft politics, nothing to do with technology.

Window Phone 8 redesign was a consequence of WinDev, led by Synofsky winning their usual disputes against DevTools.

Nowadays they even support MonoGame on XBox and already apologized the process didn't went out as it should have been in first place.

EDIT:

Here they welcome MonoGame into XBox program

http://news.xbox.com/2016/03/14/letter-chris-charla-idxbox-u...

And here Unity is listed as one of the official Windows 10 game middleware

https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/games/uwp

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Re:Mono 5.0 Ships with Concurrent Garbage Collector by douche on Saturday May 20, 2017 @10:42AM (#14382579)
For some reason they decided to scuttle that in the Balmer/Sinofsky/Nadella shakeups.

It's actually a pretty nifty API to use, and has some continuation as MonoGame. Notably, Stardew Valley is an XNA/Monogame product.

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