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I'm not sure that later versions of Visual Studio require Windows 8. I've run Windows 7 at work with the latest versions of Visual Studio just fine. I'm not going to be all hard on rules so I wouldn't worry too much about it. If you need some help getting things on to MonoGame proper let's chat when things are done and I could probably do a quick port :). Keep  on jammin! :)

To be fair, I think I tried to download the "Windows 8 edition" of VS2012, but it was the only version I could really track down. For what it's worth, I'm very comfortable with C#, but absolutely AWFUL when it comes to environment stuff.

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give 2017 community edition a try... https://www.visualstudio.com/downloads/