What's the point of Mono on Windows

Question

This may be a dumb question...but I was just looking into the Mono project and they have a section about installing Mono on Windows. But, since Windows obviously already ha

Answer 1

also even if you have program dynamically linked with Mono, you can have that compiled .exe and Mono runtime on pendrive and goto another computer with no .NET/Mono installed, and run that program on the new PC without any runtime installation. ie, It leads to portable apps (particularly useful as portable usb pen drive apps) This is not possible with .NET. You have to have .NET runtime installed in a particular installer way,ie, runtime containing folder copy and paste not possible.