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Reply to Windows XP owns skinning in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

"Given that these two OSes are only in use by a minority of users in the general public, it is safe to assume that people who are into customizing their computers are much more likely to have Windows XP." Not at all. It is safe to assume, however, that the majority of likely respondents to the poll are Windows XP/2000 users who take an active interest in Wincustomize.com. What you *can* prune from the results is that it is probably safe to assume that *your* users and subscribe

Reply to ObjectDesktop Enhancement Shareware CD included with Microsoft® Windows® XP Power Toolkit book. in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

Congratulations. That is a mighty endorsement.

Reply to Could Hollywood Hack your PC? in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

The lot of you should get your panties un-wadded. Even if this bill passes through both houses and manages to get the Presidential signature, it'll never survive judicial review. And 1Renegade, the only thing your frenzied post was missing was coffee stains to better demonstrate your passion and Marxism.

Reply to JPEG: Time to pay up!!! in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

This will fail (in the aggregate) for the same reasons we discussed wincustomize charging fees. Other equally viable options exist in abundance, such as .png, rendering the service that .jpg formats provides, displaying images, abundant. On top of that, all those other formats are free. Skull is correct that they are going after hardware manufacturers specifically, and they just might get a few. But in the big picture, this will be less than a blip in the marketplace.

Reply to Sun to remove all free StarOffice downloads in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

I humbly disagree. StarOffice 5.2 was ugly, chunky garbage. OpenOffice isn''t much better, but the price is right.

Reply to Website subscriptions: Wave of the future or bad idea? in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

Any product or service can command a price so long as that product or service is scarce. The services provided by WinCustomize, while very good, are not (relatively) scarce. WinCustomize provides a convenient central location to find multiple skins for the various applications I use. In this way, it''s a lot like Yahoo''s Financial pages or Foxnews'' news page. However, "convenience" is not a scarce good on the Internet. Skins, tutorials, skinning apps, etc. can be located in innumerabl