Xamarin Now Free for Small Teams

Microsoft announced yesterday that Xamarin will be included in the free Visual Studio Community Edition. So essentially free for small teams of up to five developers.

Here is my take:
http://dotnetcore.io/xamarin-now-free-for-small-teams/

Do they have a solution for desktop OS/X apps?

Yes

https://developer.xamarin.com/guides/mac/getting_started/hello,_mac/