...because Visual Studio is a C#&#x2F;C++ IDE that works on Windows, and Xamarin Studio is also a C#&#x2F;C++ IDE that works on Windows?<p>Xamarin Studio is a swiss army knife. I don&#x27;t know about your use case, but I use it under the name Monodevelop on linux (not really sure what that association is) and as Xamarin studio on windows. For my use case, it&#x27;s a C# and C++ IDE for desktop development, same as visual studio.<p>It&#x27;s certainly not a MacOS only product, it supports all three platforms including windows.