Classic Shell no longer in development, and now open source

larc919 said:

Sad news indeed! I can't see not using Classic Shell. Hope somebody will grab and run with it.

Josey Wales said:

It works for me on 16053 and I am not going any further as 16299 does not work too well on my PC but Classic Shell works on it.

It works fine for me on 16299 on 3 machines, laptop I did a clean install the other two are Win 8.1 Pro upgrades.

Maybe we should all send IVO $20 he might change his mind? It is sure worth $20 to me and I sent him mine years ago.

I echo all the sad feelings and hope for some kind of future for Classic Shell. I can't imagine Windows10 without it.

Clintlgm said:

Maybe we should all send IVO $20 he might change his mind? It is sure worth $20 to me and I sent him mine years ago.

That move won't change a thing. Ivo has already stated it's not about money.

martyfelker said:

Start 10 still works and is occasionally updated. Yeah it costs five bucks.

What is "Start 10" ? I've been using "startisback". It only costs a couple of bucks and they seem to be able to keep it going. Granted is is not "Classic Shell", of which I looked at but I found "startisback" when I got my first Win 8 machine. I had to do something because I could never become comfortable with the Start menu. I do use it for apps that I rarely use to keep the clutter down on the desktop, but beyond that I'm like many other contributors here, the only Windows App I use also is "MY RADAR", that I've used for years under Android devices.

But if M.S. ends up hiding internals like IBM did back in the 70's, they will be sitting in a court room somewhere and like IBM paid their fines and published everything about MVS.

JMHO