10 Days to the release of Cairo Shell
Sunday, January 4, 2009 by Diafragma | Discussion: Community
The team at Cairo shell have posted a countdown for the anticipated release of Cairo shell... IF you are like me a hardcore skinner, you may enjoy this one...
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For more info, visit their website>>> http://cairoshell.com/
Reply #2 Sunday, January 4, 2009 8:53 PM
I visited a couple of weeks ago and there was no mention of it...lol...blink and you're in Detroit...whoops! Sorry, Zu 
Reply #3 Sunday, January 4, 2009 9:02 PM
Reply #4 Sunday, January 4, 2009 9:21 PM
With a countdown and screenshots I'm sure this time is for real....
Reply #5 Thursday, January 15, 2009 3:59 AM
Reply #6 Thursday, January 15, 2009 6:36 AM
Ugh, yet another skinning format 
And uh... Neither alpha or beta software can be considered "release" imho... pre-release is more accurate.
Reply #7 Thursday, January 15, 2009 6:46 AM
And you have to be on their release list...not sure I'd wanna go with an alpha...who knows how it'd be with my WSX and SD software.
Beta's are bleeding edge enough for this old coot. 
Reply #8 Thursday, January 15, 2009 6:53 AM
Litestep is still beta...probably will never be anything other than....and it's as rock-solid as any shell around [including Exploder]....
Reply #11 Thursday, May 14, 2009 9:21 AM
Looking thru their forums I see several familiar names.........
Still in alpha.......for paying.......sorry "donating" customers
Reply #12 Thursday, May 14, 2009 9:34 AM
'10 days'.....
....must be them new-fangled metric ones.....
Reply #13 Thursday, May 14, 2009 9:40 AM
Yeh...cruised over a couple of times....wish it'd come out in a public beta (or RC) format as trialware to see what it could do.
Reply #14 Thursday, May 14, 2009 10:01 AM
I dunno that the people over at Cairo Shell are any more guilty of release delays than Microsoft, Stardock and other software companies... developers who want to get their product as close to right as possible before releasing it to the general public.
Sure it's frustrating to have to wait, particularly when you're just itching to try it out, but what would you rather have... a half baked app that consistently presents with issues, or a well tested complete app that works well right out of the box?
As I recall, Stardock has yet to release a x64 Vista compliant Object dock... and that's been on the table for a while. And MS delayed the release of Vista by several months because they felt it wasn't ready. I'm sure there are other cases as well, but irrespective of projected/estimated release dates/times, it ain't done 'til it's done... amd better to be well done than half baked, eh!!
Reply #15 Thursday, May 14, 2009 11:13 AM
starkers....they posted a countdown to a release date. That implies a specific time...somewhen in the past [now].
It wasn't a case of 'later this year'...or 'soon'....
Reply #16 Thursday, May 14, 2009 11:19 AM
I wonder what the 'real' story is. Well, it'll be out when it'll be out. They don't update what's going on often though, do they?
Reply #17 Thursday, May 14, 2009 11:31 AM
Wonder if Diafragma has any information, since it is his thread. 
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Reply #1 Sunday, January 4, 2009 8:37 PM
This comes up every now and again. I hope this time it works out.