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WindowBlinds 5 Beta: Next Tuesday

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WindowBlinds 5 Beta: Next Tuesday

It's coming..

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The first public beta of WindowBlinds 5 is almost here.  Stardock released the alpha this week to its internal QA team to put the program through its compatibility testing before sending it out.  WindowBlinds 5's most notable new feature is the ability to support "glass" and full alpha blending of the title bar and border (no more jaggy borders).  The critical step has been to deliver this functionality without affecting performance for reasonably modern video cards.

In addiion, WindowBlinds 5 no longer has a "wbload.exe" and instead extends the painting of the Windows GUI in a more "native" way.  Or put another way, it has "zero foot print" in the same manner that the default bundled Windows themes (msstyles) use. 

Users who have Object Desktop will be able to try out the beta next Tuesday (Oct 4).  Users of WindowBlinds 4 will be able to upgrade to Object Desktop at a reduced price.  Moreover, users who purchased WindowBlinds 4 after September 1 will receive WindowBlinds 5 for free.

WindowBlinds 5 will also be designed to run on Windows Vista natively by the time Windows Vista ships (the beta of WindowBlinds 5 should run on the beta of Windows Vista though the Windows Vista GUI is still in a state of flux obviously).

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Reply #101 from WinCustomize Forums Top
The glass effect will work with any skin? Lets say with KoL (Great Job man)vista XP skin. Also change glass the taskbar? Correct. I'm just asking because I'm new on this amaizing programs.

Thanks
Reply #102 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Also how is the performance on the Intel Graphics Extreme 2 Chipset (Integrated Video Card) on a ThinkPad R51? Will it work at leasts?
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Reply #106 from WinCustomize Forums Top
#101 by Citizen jimenomar

The glass effect will work with any skin? Lets say with KoL (Great Job man)vista XP skin. Also change glass the taskbar?


AFAIK he plans to release an update as soon as WB5 is out.
Reply #110 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Ok, it's just past 7:00 a.m. Eastern and I'm camping on the site... don't think we're anxious for this upgrade do you?
Reply #111 from WinCustomize Forums Top
lets see, thier an hour behind us and i have 7:30 so its 6:30 there they probably wont be at work till 8:00 so we have at least three hours till the boss comes in anoyingly late (on purpose because your waiting for him) and give the order to post the update. and atleast another half hour for that guy to finish flirting with the bosses secratary... another twenty minutes to read and reply to an urgent E-mail that just cant wait because its from the boss and says he's haveing car trouble and will be a little late this morning. then its off to the break room for a cup of coffee and a jelly doughnut. you get the idea right? its going to take for ever and thiers nothing we can do but sit here crying as we wait for our new and improved drug
Reply #113 from WinCustomize Forums Top
You'll be waiting several more hours unfortunately...from #stardock, here's the topic of the channel..."Topic is 'WindowBlinds 5 Beta 1 on October 4. Afternoon. Ish. EST.' "

Oh well, at least you can get some work done now and stop refreshing your stardock central:)
Reply #114 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Oh well, at least you can get some work done now and stop refreshing your stardock central:)


Whew, thank goodness!
Reply #115 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Nah, I figure they're lying... I'll keep hitting the refresh key!
Reply #117 from WinCustomize Forums Top
OK . Where is it? I'm enthusiasticly waiiiiiiting. Not showing up in SC yet.
Reply #119 from WinCustomize Forums Top


Afternoon EST will probably be after midnight European time......so that will be 5 october here.
Stardock should consider that next time they make promises being an international community.

It's allways better to make an estimate that's on the good side of the promise than the whole community wil not be waiting and whining but BANG! ......its there allready.....

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Reply #121 from WinCustomize Forums Top
EST is six hours behind CET, so it SHOULD be around 18:00 in Europe.. So not midnight
Reply #122 from WinCustomize Forums Top
just remember that a watched pot never boils and time flies when your haveing fun. when you watch the clock time moves slower than if your not paying attention!
Reply #123 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I can't take it anymore. Just too much stress. I'll be staring out of my window (yes, with open blinds) all night and I'll check back tomorrow. Get me some whiskey!
Reply #124 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Get me some whiskey!


I'll take a bud light draft