Have just install and derision....while 8 on this laptop....going to be my primary source of laughter and  oh crap it can't even take text inpshitting itselfut without

spell checking is effing useless.

Jaffo, no clue what the hell you just said...

 Been using 8 for quite some time now. It's actually a pretty damn good OS. Yes, tons of FAIL when it come to the UI, which is why I'm here at Stardock. But the overall OS is quite impressive.

I have a feeling it's more of the same... 8 is "different", thus people complain about it. 

If 8 did everything just like 7 did, and made Metro an option, peeps would be all goobly for it.

 Seriously ya'll remind me of when leaded gasoline was done away with... OOOOOOOH the outcry...

Few years later... whats leaded gasoline???

Jafo, like WTF!!!!   You bin on the slops again?

 It's gasoline with another octane booster, so as such it's still there. The basic principle is still the same.

I too am looking forward to windowblinds for windows 8.

Mark 

Same here its been far to long and it needs to come quickly i have opted to keep windows 7 on my laptop just so i can play around with skinning it lol.

Maybe it's just me, but I don't see the reasoning behind having to install 3 or 4 third party programs just to make Windows 8 look and act like.....Windows. Kudos to Stardock for at least making those options available, but Win7 does everything I need it to do and even *gasp* unskinned, I could live with it.

Thing is, people have been using 3rd party programs since Win 95 to improve handling and appearance.

XP was in desperate need of beautification, and various programs were developed to improve the user experience.

Same with Vista and Win 7.  Both had programs created to alter/improve the UI, some of them by Stardock.

Okay, MS could have done better with Win 8's UI, but various UI improvement programs would still have emerged regardless.  MS has always failed with regards to the UI, and probably always will, meaning 3rd party developers will always be looking for ways to better what we're given.

The problem I see is that Microsoft doesn't actually go out of the way to help any third party developers do anything with Windows.  Imagine IDE choices like you have with Linux for Windows.  I think the people at Stardock could create one great UI for Windows.

For me I am just one more crappy version of Windows away from going Mac.  If I do go Mac, I would probably run Windows 7 under Parallels to run the apps that there is no good Mac version of. 

And there are plenty of those, aren't there!  But then, Apple never made inroads into the PC/OS market because it never allowed an open OS and prevented 3rd party developers from creating for the platform.

I always wanted to try out OS-X because it was/is different, but after playing around on my niece's Macbook Pro before she sold it to get a Win 8 replacement, I honestly can't see what all the fuss is about.  It's certainly nothing it write home about.

As for Win 8, I see a lot of whining about it, but very little is justified, qualified or generated from actual experience of the OS.  As with sheep, many critics of Win 8 are saying so because somebody else did.... and so on.  As for the areas where MS failed to step up to the plate, 3rd party developers have filled the void and Win 8 is now a solid and very usable OS.  Can't say that for OS-X!  If Apple f**ks t up you're stuck with it because it is a 'closed' system.

You'll never understand it, starkers...but it's that very need for third party fixes that indicates the failure that is 8.

No other MS OS needed outside 'help', not in real functionality of its GUI.

It's not 'sheep' when everyone actually realises the flaws themselves....so-much-so that SD's solutions are pretty darn popular...;)

Ah, but I do understand it!  Win 8 is a rock solid OS that's been 'enhanced' by 3rd party apps.  I have the Stardock apps installed, and I use them occasionally, but the fact is that I can use/navigate Win 8 without difficulty and not use them.  It's not that hard.

Yes, I like Decor8 as it brightens up the look of Metro, and I like ModernMix because I can run my most used apps on the desktop and multi-task them when required, and Start8 allows me to boot directly into the desktop, which is handy, but once I'm there I use Win 8 much as I did Win 7, by using quick launch, desktop shortcuts and what I've pinned to the taskbar.  The Start Menu Start8 provides is handy when I have a few things open on the desktop and I want/need to open something else, but for the most part I have learnt to use Win 8 as it comes out of the box.  It's no that hard.

I don't see flaws, as you call them.  I see new ways of doing things, and once you get used to them they're not that hard to do.

 Oh, look at that, I said Win 8 isn't hard to use 3 times, so it must be true.

I am with starkers on this - I could actually co-sign the whole previous post myself.

See?

I said you wouldn't get it...and you didn't.  I win.... EOS

Your 'rock-solid OS' needs third party apps to make it acceptable/usable.

The kernel may be good but the shell is shit.

If you 'don't see flaws' remove Start8 and MM and live happily ever after....;p

Your logic is as flawed as your perception...so 8 suits you to a tee ....;p

With the exception of Games, there are many paid and free applications for the Mac that are actually better then their Windows counterpart, if there is one.

If you mean that an O/S is open if it can run on any hardware platform you care to build, I'll give you that on Windows but I don't see Microsoft being any more friendly to developers then Apple is.

4 days left in 1st quarter, I guess Windows Blinds 8 for Windows 8 just isen't going to happen and it would seem definitely not by the 1st quarter as previously promised!

OMG! vmeck, let me get the whinny ambulance for you you've c/p the same thing on 3 - 4 post's...

Yeah, and has only been a member here a tad over a month... suggesting others [who aren't whining] have been waiting a lot longer.

I'd like to have WB on my Win 8 installation as well, but I understand there are some coding challenges since MS ditched Aero, etc, and that being impatient isn't going to make it available any sooner.

I'm also looking forward to WB for Win8, but I'd rather have a working product than one that's going to have people constantly posting about things not working. So, I'm fine with waiting until the 2nd quarter. I know WB will come out, because it's one of the main utilities that Stardock makes. It will be worth the wait. Although, I'd also be excited about testing a beta

Give Karma to that person....

...oh, I did...;)

I have a feeling it wont come out until the fifth quarter.

Speaking for myself and I am unanimous in this, can wait as I still currently use an OS that is fully supported by the current versions of software offered by Stardock. 

Thank you Mrs. Slocombe.   

Seriously, Stardock... How long does Windows 8 have to be out before you release WindowBlinds for it?  I've been paying for Object Desktop and WindowBlinds was always my #1 reason to keep it... and here I sit, having had Windows 8 since the preview builds, unable to use my damned WB... even now, after at least six months of having a FULL FINAL VERSION INSTALLED.  What's going on here?!  Please keep us up to date... and maybe give us a beta we can try at least!

Nope, I have it on good authority that WB8 will come out on the 32nd of December in the Year of the Slug [Chinese].

Anyone who say it's coming out any sooner is pulling your pud.

Seriously........I don't recall ever seeing anything that stated or even implied that WindowBlinds would work with every Windows release or be available within any specified timeframe after said release.

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