10 Years of Stardock!

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This month marks the 10 year anniversary from when Stardock was incorporated. Back in 1993, college student Brad Wardell, looking for a way to pay for school, founded the company.

In an article that looks back over the 10 year history of Stardock, Wardell talks about the highs and lows in a year by year round up.

URL: https://www.joeuser.com/index.asp?AID=328
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Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Congratulations, Brad, to you and everyone at Stardock. I have left a comment on your 'blog'. Hopefully someone will bake a birthday cake for you all. Should go down nice with a cup of KG's coffee!!!!!!!
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Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top
10 years...congratulations fellas.

Here's to the people who made OS customization what it is...and what it WILL be !!! /me lifts a beer and toasts

...PARTY AT BRAD'S HOUSE !! (j/k of course...)

Take a bow guys. You beat the odds.

And what's to come....ooohhhh boy....ObjectBar 2.0... YEA !
Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top
thanks so much for making windows customisation a household word! And props for the whole idea! I never liked the boring "normal" windows look!!!!

Cheers!
Reply #5 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Wow, what a ride Brad, I wonder how the gray hair count is doing?

Or are you too scared to start?

Then again your boys are probably partly responsible too. I know in my case our 4 children certainly are.
Reply #6 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Happy Birthday!

I remember the first versions of WB 0.9X and then 1.X... I was living in Brazil and I brought it... was a little expensive for me at the time because I wasn't get paid in dollars (by the way... if you guys can find my serial number... )
Then after Wb 2 I wasn't using it anymore... just the shareware version. This year I got the OD subscription. I was happy until I discovered the VS... now I keep switching betwin the two. If windowblinds could import the VS that would be great!
Right now I only use iconpackager and nothing else...
It's not that I don't like SD products, it's that sometimes there are too many features that I will not use so I use altenative versions (YzShadow vs WindowFX). If you guys create something like WindowFX-lite with shadows only and taskbar shadows that would be really nice!

I'm not against SD, the point is that there is too much options when I'm looking for simple stuff but next year I'll renew my OD subscription

Peace!
Reply #7 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Happy Anniversary!!!! Sure do appreciate all of the developement. Sure has come a long way since V1. Been with you 5 of the 10 and I'm sticking.......
Reply #8 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Hi everyone at Stardock!

Many congratulations from The Netherlands.

I have already been a long time user (since OS2 version) and i hope to stay it a long time.

Keep up the good work!

Reply #9 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Sort of remends me of my situation... trying to figure out a way to pay for grad school cause the job market is still recovering over here in NYC.

Came up with a few ideas and reading this story makes me wonder about what could happen.

Reply #12 from WinCustomize Forums Top
yeeeeeeeeeeehaaaaaaawwwwww!!!!
Reply #13 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Cool! PLEASE CLICK ON THAT LINK!!!!
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Reply #14 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Happy new year ... been with you also 5 of the 10 ... maybe like some others
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Reply #16 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Congrats, and I wish you many many more happy years to come! I've seen the early versions of WindowBlinds, back when there were other windows customization programs trying to do the same thing, and frankly... WB rocks them all. Add CursorXP to that mix, and I am a happy camper

In the article, you mentioned the operational cost of skinning webpages... I recently ran across BitTorrent. While I have no idea what it's supposed to be used for (I only downloaded the FaNIMATRIX with it), it looks like a good way to distribute load over the net.

Wouldn't something like that help distribute the content? I mean, heck, even P2P might help (I'm clueless with P2P, so correct me if I am wrong).
Reply #17 from WinCustomize Forums Top
It was a good read...
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