The Death of a Company, the Death of .MSStyles
Saturday, June 7, 2008 by LightStar | Discussion: OS Customization
I have developed themes for Windows XP and the .msstyles
format since 2001 myself, and fully supported TGTSoft up until now, but I can
no longer continue to do so without support from the company.
I also develop Windowblinds themes and have done so for
almost 3 years now, and with the death of TGTSoft, I will only being developing
Windowblinds themes from now on. I will
continue to offer my .msstyles on my website until such time as the format dies
completely.
My first full Windowblinds theme, Shimmer, should be released sometime in July 2008.
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Reply #22 Saturday, July 18, 2009 10:04 AM
The format was/is an unendorsed [by MS] hack of their inherent skin theme application/s within XP. It isn't so much that they 'died out' but that they had/have no legitimate community support/development base, and typically every time MS released a new service pack, etc there was no compunction [or need] on the part of MS to worry as to whether they were breaking this hacked format or not...so it was frequently broken.
Independent [legitimate] skinning alternatives actually cost time and money to develop and maintain and thus won't be 'free'.
Typically anything 'good' is worth paying for...
Reply #23 Saturday, July 18, 2009 10:15 AM
I must be missing something here. People will spend hundreds of dollars on an OS or a monitor,yet will balk at spending twenty dollars (US) to make it all look great.
I don't like watching low-def TV but I can't convince my cable company to give me HD for free.
Reply #24 Saturday, July 18, 2009 12:03 PM
The death of Tgt-soft doesn't mean death of .msstyles. Msstyle is in vista and perhaps in win7 too. At its very start I considered its style xp better than windowblinds because at that time PCs were slow and so was windowblinds. May be TGTsoft's earlier wins made them so reluctant that they felt no need for further improvement in their software. What more they guided their customers to adware companies.... www.themexp.org
No one will like an eye-candy with a virus. Can you love a girl with viral fever?
On the other hand windowblinds improved and became faster with time and so became the PCs.
I don't remember which WB version I used first because I had given my mind on rent then. lol
Reply #25 Saturday, July 18, 2009 1:22 PM
Get Time Warner...most HD channels are free.
Reply #26 Saturday, July 18, 2009 1:37 PM
My wife...who takes any XP system she is on and converts it back to Win2000 appearance.
The only reason she doesn't do it to her laptop is because I purchased the USC Gamecocks MyColours for her. (She's all about USC)
Reply #27 Saturday, July 18, 2009 2:00 PM
Hopefully this thread will server as a reminder to those who had hoped WindowBlinds would "just die" back when Style XP first came out because .msstyles were the new standard.
Those people should be glad WindowBlinds didn't die. 
Reply #28 Saturday, July 18, 2009 2:49 PM
Wow, strange to see this old thread ressurected! 
Reply #30 Saturday, July 25, 2009 2:59 AM
Me too... but I waited a week to reply... was hoping Moses would come along and add the 11th commandment...
Thou shalt not forsake WindowBlinds to use msstyles. 
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Reply #21 Saturday, July 18, 2009 9:56 AM
I didn't suggest WB to be free software, but maybe a free version of it, like a lightweight version, i mean who wants to live with the standard skins of Windows? They are terrible, and if .msstyle dies out...