Paul Wilson，也就是.NET平臺著名ORM解決方案WilsonORMapper的開發者，近日有發表一篇blog：Breaking News: Future Version of .NET Framework to Run on the Mac，透露說，.NET Framework未來版本將可在Mac系統上運行。
實際上這個消息，本來是來自Rory對Scott Guthrie的一次訪談，是從對WPF/E的討論延伸開的。在訪談第九分鐘：
Scott: And overtime we'll also support a managed programming language, uh framework, against WPF/E as well. So in addition to using JavaScript, you'll be able to use C#, uh
Rory: You mean, even for the other?
Scott: Yeah even for the Safari and Mac（！！！）.
在訪談第23分45秒：
Rory: Is there any possibility of eventually having a framework that runs outside the browser?
Scott: Yea, yea, that's definitely something we're looking at is, uh, kind of what we call the in-browser experience and kind of the out-of-browser experience. And so that's something we'll talk more about at mix, uh
Rory: And that stuff's secret now? Cause I don't mean to bring up something that's secret.
Scott: No, no, well that's something, uh, that we haven't talked about publicly yet. But that's certainly a scenario we're thinking about.
Rory: Do I have to get that out of the video?
Scott: No, you can keep that.
Rory: I can keep that? Is this like the first time anyone's heard it?
Scott: Probably, yeah.
這消息似乎本該是Scott要在本屆Mix07大會上宣佈的，Scott在此次訪談中無意透露，以致於Rory疑惑是否會泄密而應將相關對話從Video中剪輯掉，但Scott示意此次公開無妨。
Apple的Mac操作系統OS X本是自Unix發展而來，若.NET Framework未來版本能支持Mac，則意味着Unix系列包括Linux屆時都可承載.NET Framework平臺。
.NET Framework已然是跨語言，而跨平臺又指日可待，回顧之前與Novell的Linux版本合作等動作，Microsoft在傾聽對岸社區的聲音並積極融合的步伐在不斷加快。
