Colin and the team in Redmond, in collaboration with community contributors, have been working super-hard this last year and the results so far are very promising.
Today Colin announced his retirement (from Microsoft). Colin has brought Lorenzo Tessiore back as technical lead on the NETMF project, and the team is in a great position to continue innovating with .NET on Cortex-M class devices.
A few highlights from Colin's retirement post:
http://blogs.msdn.co...-the-guard.aspx
1. NETMF 4.4 is nearing completion. Stay tuned. Lots of new cool stuff to play with.
2. Officially...there is an AOT (native compiled) version of .NET for Cortex-M devices in the works. This is a second version of .NET for Cortex-class micros which will be even better than the NETMF interpreter for some applications. I don't want to spoil Lorenzo's thunder though, and I'll hold off on talking about this other than to point it out in the post

Please join me in giving Colin a huge "thank you" and virtual hug for all of his years of dedicated service at Microsoft, for making .NET MF a reality for all of us, and for working this last year to drive this really important work with NETMF (for IoT) forward.
Thank you Colin, for everything.
Chris