If it goes to OSaaS you stop there, if you want. Otherwise people have been on XP since 2001, and been on IE 6 since then too.

Agreed. Gnome was before Mono, latest version though is mono-based. Run ubuntu 14.10 on vm in win8, always nice to be able to check things from multiple perspectives. Even have xamarin studios on my RPi 2 :laugh:

If you are using Mono why would you need Wine? Considering Gnome is built on mono.

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Guess I'm one of the few people that use third party menu apps in Windows... Had Classic Shell running since switched from XP to Win 7. Never actually noticed the lack of menu in Win 8. Classic Shell had 15 million downloads according to SourceForge. Probably about 1% of the Win 8.x users checked it out. Maybe someone should have mentioned going to third party apps in their tirades against Win 8.x on all the IT media. The idea that you can change to a third party app if you don't like the base app is why lots of us use Firefox or Chrome. So why not a menu app?