[MaddoScientisto]

Right now xamarin is offered "for free" in the vs2015 install but the catch is that it only allows making apps under a certain size (and no xamarin forms), still requiring the pricy offers for the full functionality. Now the article (or perhaps even microsoft) is just vague with this whole "integrated in visual studio" stuff. For all we know they could still require a license for anything that aren't really small apps.

I'd like to figure out if this is going to be the case or if there will be a way for even hobbist users to do something useful with xamarin with the new stuff, there's not enough info to know right now though