On Sun, 12 Jan 2014 19:02:10 -0700, "Rich" wrote:

I promptly installed Classic Shell on 8 & then 8.1. If you were to walk into
my home office you literally could not tell that I was running Windows 8.1.
Am I missing something?

If you keep people back far enough, I agree that they probably wouldn't be
able to tell that you're running 8.1. Let them touch your mouse or keyboard,
however, and the jig is up almost immediately.