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...

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??????

??? 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.

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.