WindowBlinds 4 for Windows 2000 users..
Thursday, June 26, 2003 by Frogboy | Discussion: WinCustomize News
A beta of WindowBlinds 4 that works on Windows 2000 machines is now available for Object Desktop users (via Stardock Central)!
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Old Sapphire
Reply #22 Sunday, June 29, 2003 10:14 PM
Reply #22 Sunday, June 29, 2003 10:14 PM
Crap, dude I was SOO excited about this 
I went out and registered and downloaded Stardock Central but it still says XP Only 
Someone please help me !!! 
I went out and registered and downloaded Stardock Central but it still says XP Only 
Someone please help me !!! 
Ruthven
Reply #23 Monday, June 30, 2003 8:24 AM
Reply #23 Monday, June 30, 2003 8:24 AM
Well, nice that this finally got done ... not so nice that my subscription ran out between the XP release and this release :-/
(Though I guess nice from Stardock's perspective, if I decide to renew!)
(Though I guess nice from Stardock's perspective, if I decide to renew!)
Bender50
Reply #24 Monday, June 30, 2003 8:40 PM
Reply #24 Monday, June 30, 2003 8:40 PM
OldSapphire, in SDCentral/view, show pre-release versions.
you should see 4.00 as a beta, click and install.
you should see 4.00 as a beta, click and install.
wibbley
Reply #25 Tuesday, July 1, 2003 6:18 AM
Reply #25 Tuesday, July 1, 2003 6:18 AM
Could someone tell me - as I am thinking of getting a new Stardock subscription - will the WB4 skin the taskbar properly as if it were the XP taskbar?
I do have WB3.5 on my 2000 machine here at work, and the only reason I would go up to 4 is if it did the taskbar properly.
I don't want to run ObjectBar by the way as I find it a little slow, and sometimes unstable.
Cheers folks.
I do have WB3.5 on my 2000 machine here at work, and the only reason I would go up to 4 is if it did the taskbar properly.
I don't want to run ObjectBar by the way as I find it a little slow, and sometimes unstable.
Cheers folks.
Alex Brown
Reply #26 Wednesday, July 2, 2003 3:06 PM
Reply #26 Wednesday, July 2, 2003 3:06 PM
I hate windows XP....MS F**ked up on this os...its not the "newbe" thing its that fact that its like spyware...c'mon explorer trying to go on the internet to contact the MS server at that ....spyware to me....hope alll of u xp users have zone alarm to not let explorer acces the internet... 
Onizuka II
Reply #27 Thursday, July 3, 2003 4:06 AM Why everything must depend on the Tools by Stardock ???Why don't MS make something into their products to do the samethings just like the Stardock ??? Is that all because of the G.s??????
Reply #27 Thursday, July 3, 2003 4:06 AM
Why everything must depend on the Tools by Stardock ???Why don't MS make something into their products to do the samethings just like the Stardock ??? Is that all because of the G.s??????
Paul Doland
Reply #28 Monday, July 7, 2003 12:32 PM
Reply #28 Monday, July 7, 2003 12:32 PM
??? Why must everything depend on Stardock???
That's a very strange comment to me... Although Microsoft is indeed seeing that customizing and personalizing computers is becoming popular, and they adding more and more such features to the OS with every new release. Even so, there is only so much that one would reasonably expect them to do. Microsoft is a mass marketer. They don't try to satisfy every possible niche. The kinds of things that Object Desktop does is is the kind of niche that MS is happy to let Stardock have.
Also, retrofitting older OSes with new features is clearly against MS's revenue stream. They want you to buy XP. They still sell 2000 for now. But there is no point to them putting XP features, such as the new user interface capabilities, into 2000. What's their motivation? They have none. So, if anybody is going to add features to older OSes, its going to be people like Stardock.
That's a very strange comment to me... Although Microsoft is indeed seeing that customizing and personalizing computers is becoming popular, and they adding more and more such features to the OS with every new release. Even so, there is only so much that one would reasonably expect them to do. Microsoft is a mass marketer. They don't try to satisfy every possible niche. The kinds of things that Object Desktop does is is the kind of niche that MS is happy to let Stardock have.
Also, retrofitting older OSes with new features is clearly against MS's revenue stream. They want you to buy XP. They still sell 2000 for now. But there is no point to them putting XP features, such as the new user interface capabilities, into 2000. What's their motivation? They have none. So, if anybody is going to add features to older OSes, its going to be people like Stardock.
Paul Doland
Reply #29 Monday, July 7, 2003 12:34 PM
Reply #29 Monday, July 7, 2003 12:34 PM
Just curious, any news on any older OSes, like 9X? Personally, it wouldn't bother me if Stardock stops WindowBlinds at 3.5 for Windows 9X, but I have no idea if that is their plan or not.
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Reply #21 Saturday, June 28, 2003 10:18 PM