I have full confidence in Stardock.

Neil Banfield -The evil genius behind all of the black magic Stardock produces is working his ass off with his magic wand on f´ing fire to get the Beta out on WindowBlinds for Windows 8 so......

If ANYONE can do it, it´s him & if it takes some time even for Him.... Well you get it.

-keep easy folks.

considering for how long I have been a Stardock customer makes me shiver realizing how geriatric I must be ..

but my mole-like eyes are still good enough to see that the 8-UI is pretty ugly ..

So yes, Stardock, here's another old-time customer who will again invest right away into your company once WB 8 is birthed.

GO STARDOCK GO !!

Yes, I know what 'JAFO' is....and even know what 'Y'all' is, too.

A hint.  I have been a Comms/Observer with the FIA and FIM and prior with CAMS ...since...about 1975.  I am the longest-serving 'JAFO' still currently both with the FIA and in Australia.

...and the Avatar [which I drew] is tattooed on my left shoulder.

And while we're on acronyms....'FIA' is Federation Internationale Automobile .....[it's French] ...

BTW...this is technically within the Support forum so ideally shouldn't go off-topic, but in this case the topic is really about waiting-for-Windowblinds-Eight ....

 nice one 

can`t wait for windowblind 8 to come out  

cheers

quote Stardock:

"Information about trial versions of WindowBlinds that are compatible with Windows 8 will be available at a later time."

https://www.stardock.com/products/windowblinds/win8updates.asp

Yeah, when's supper ready?

Hope it's not too much longer... my stomach's growling like my throat's been cut,

So, I don't often come across people in my neck of the woods who are right into customisation, but I was in a PC store today talking with one of the techies and he was full of praise for Start8, decor8 and ModernMix.  He too is anxiously awaiting WB 8 and hopes it is released soon because, like me, he has a library of new skins he's just itching to apply.

It's not often I get to chat face to face with anyone who shares my interest for decorating the desktop, but we had a great conversation and when I told him that Kitty Malone/Vampothika used to live just up the road at Lowood and that I'd met her a couple of times, he was like so jealous because she is one of his all time favourite skinners.

It's not my regular PC store, but I can see myself going back there more often now I've made some new friends.  Yeah, 3 mates got together to buy the business from a former employer, and they're nice blokes to boot, so I will be giving them some of my custom to help out.

Oh, and the reason I went in there was to get a good price on a wireless keyboard and mouse combo so we can navigate the net and perform searches via the browser on our media player.  Yup, now we'll be able to view WC in full HD on our 55" TV, hehe...

Retrofitting the blinds to work with WB8 won't be easy. The 'clunkiness' will still be part of the deal, or Stardock has rewrite the whole sublayer and incorporate it in WB as MS takes pieces out of till all traces of aero are gone.

Windows 8 needs Windowsblinds more than any previous version of the OS. Oh and if you can make Start8 skinable with it that would be great.

 I recently purchased Start8 and I am very happy with the positive changes it made within the Windows 8 environment. But as many others have stated here, I am way past ready to purchase WindowBlinds! One of the other forum users recently gave an excellent description of Windows 8; its' a "cement slab" - What were the development engineers at Microsoft thinking?! For pity's sake, not everyone uses Windows on a mobile/portable devise - I just don't get it!

 Anyway, the Stardock development team have definitely taken on the roll of super heroes - please keep-up the great work you are doing! 

And whose fault is that? YOURS! If you'd been doing your job, millions of Australians would be happily using ODNT... so many, folks would think Melbourne, Sydney, Canberra and Perth were names of Detroit suburbs.

So get cracking, starkers!

Got entirely tired of waiting on Stardock for Win-Blinds 8. I found other software (3) that work great and completely return the Start Menu, WinFlip, Aero and Curved edges transparency anf blur to Windows 8 themes. Because it seems like Startdock isen't going to release Winblinds for windows 8 I wanted something to fill the MS screwup and now I have it and now I definitely won't be buying any Stardock crap ever again!

Someone here did say be patient (good things come to those who wait) and it's all free, and sorry it was 4 pieces of software when I considered I got the Vista/Windows 7 Sidebar and gadgets back too!