WindowBlinds 5: RELEASE DATE = Tuesday November 29

It's jsut about here!

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WindowBlinds 5 arrives next Tuesday, November 29th!  Here are the key details:

  • Will support Windows XP (both 32bit and 64bit)
  • Windows 2000, ME, 98 users will have to stay with WindowBlinds 4.6 because the new performance features are only available on XP and those performance features make possible the new per-pixel glass effects.
  • It will be available on its own for $19.95 or as part of Object Desktop for $49.95.
  • Users who purchased WindowBlinds 4 after September get WindowBlinds 5 for free.
  • Other WindowBlinds 4 users will be able to upgrade for $15.  WindowBlinds 4 came out in 2003, so the typical WindowBlinds customer has received over a year and a half of free updates (that's why they have an upgrade path and users who just got WindowBlinds automatically get WindowBlinds 5).
  • A shareware version of WindowBlinds 5 will be available on Tuesday.

 

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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Great news ...
Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top
...and that is when I re-subscribe to Object Desktop!!!! What a coincidence (spell?)!!!
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Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Great news
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Reply #6 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Great news!!
Reply #8 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Will there be a pre-purchase option for the stand-alone version to get access to a beta install? (I know you can get it with OD, but I was just interested in the stand-alone version for now.)
Reply #9 from WinCustomize Forums Top
What? You mean per pixel frames hasn't allways been around? Certainly feels like it had and that's just from using it since the first public beta arrived.
Reply #11 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Anything new from the beta?
Reply #12 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Had to install a new hard drive and WinXP. What a bland, uninteresting and boring desktop I saw. A quick reinstall of WB5, load a skin and voila! -the magic was back. What a great reminder of how much pleasure and enjoyment the WB desktop brings. Sincere congratulations to the prgrammers and the skinners who make such fabulous creations available to the far less talented -such as myself.
Reply #13 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I have a concern...what will happen after I buy this upgrade, and ObjectBar 2 comes out later? or ObjectDock?(my favorite!), or any other OD product...my latest subscription doesn't expire until April 2006. I have already paid for ObjectDock Plus, but if my understanding is correct, I will not be able to receive ObjectBar 2
without paying to upgrade it, and so on and so on..not sure if this makes sense or not, but it's been bugging me for awhile...anyone know?
Reply #14 from WinCustomize Forums Top
What a bland, uninteresting and boring desktop I saw


Been there, done that too, Rahn. I can't live without my WB now. I change skins sometimes four times a day, just cuz I can. I have hopes than when I finally get to upgrade to x64 that WB and all the other Stardock products are ready for it too. And when Vista is released, I will soon be in line for my copy...with the hope that I can still use my fav skins.
Reply #15 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Ooops!
Correction-yes, I know that that ObjectDock is not part of Object Desktop! DOH!
Reply #17 from WinCustomize Forums Top
An-ti-ci-pation - an-ti-ci-pa-a-tion is keeping me waitin' ... What? It's NOT Tuesday yet??? BOOO! Great job, Stardock! Can't wait!
Reply #18 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Great, can't wait to purchace it again.
Reply #19 from WinCustomize Forums Top

#8 by Citizen LittleHalfPint
Tue, November 22, 2005 0:52 PM
Will there be a pre-purchase option for the stand-alone version to get access to a beta install? (I know you can get it with OD, but I was just interested in the stand-alone version for now.)


I'm sure access to the betas is intended as motivation to subscribe to Object Desktop. As a one time subscriber, although it's great fun, I just find I don't use anything but WindowBlinds with any regularity at all. So, yes, I too would be thrilled to be able to buy/upgrade now, and get the beta.
Reply #20 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Must have hit submit twice. Better to see this than the same thing posted twice.
Reply #21 from WinCustomize Forums Top
er...uh...We get the point we get the point geekboy!!
Reply #22 from WinCustomize Forums Top
A question I posed in another thread: Is this silliness with the Data Source errors gonna get a fix???? Cuz, as it is, I am skeeeredd to delete any skins, using ANY buttons or methods. And I archive all the skins I have used, so if I don't use them right away or have favs to use for a while, I wanna be able to get some out of the listings. Easier to choose. Hmmmmmm? Anyone? Bueller? Rudolph? Blitzen?
Reply #23 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Nice going Brad/Stardock.....it doesn't seem like the beta came out all that long ago, and the full version is available next week! Fantastic effort....I didn't expect the full version of WB5 quite so soon
I must say that I've enjoyed using the beta versions of WB5 and look forwards to next Tuesday's (Wednesday here) full version release.
Reply #24 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I am Users who purchased WindowBlinds 4 on End of August 2005. Need to purcase? So Strange.

Reply #25 from WinCustomize Forums Top
i own the object desktop suite but am still using 4.6windowblinds because of the data source problem. will this be fixed in the official release?