I agree that Stardock is in an interesting place because of their partnership with MS.

For years SD was able to make "lesser" versions of Windows look like more recent ones. Win95 could look like XP (or any other OS). Will the continued partnership mean that a product that SD might have been able to sell to Vista Home Basic users to make it act like Vista Ultimate are now off the market?

Does the partnership now preclude competition between MS and SD?

Does the partnership now preclude competition between MS and SD?

I'm not sure that 'competition' would be the right word to describe MS/SD....'symbiosis' would be closer...

.'symbiosis' would be closer

How about 'parasitic', since MS will be feeding off all the free publicity they will get for this from WC/SD. Not too mention the workload they have freed themselves. I imagine they will direct people to the WC site for tutorials and info, etc. Sure, it's good for Stardock, too...but I imagine if SD came out with something similar, MS may not have 'tapped' them to begin with if they felt there was a conflict. Completely out of my area, but I wonder if MS made/asked SD to agree NOT to pursue anything similar in order to be a part of this.

I think about all the people who may get basic Vista and decide to upgrade if they want this feature that MS calls 'free'. If you upgrade or buy Ultimate from the start to get this, you are still paying for this 'free' feature. I don't mean to sound hateful. I just don't like the way MS operates.



I haven't given up on finding a way to make DX do something similar with Flash.

Stardock wouldn't exist without MS Windows. Who's the parasite there?

And really Po' is MS going to get that much more publicity from being linked to WC? I'll bet that SD (and ODNT subscriptions) being linked to from MS (http://windowsultimate.com/) will generate more new business for SD than the other way around.

MS is pretty clear about what you get with each version. No one is being fooled here.

I haven't given up on finding a way to make DX do something similar with Flash.

btw, I believe in you. One of my favorite products back in the day was an app called Sundial by Aladdin. Time lapse pictures queued to your system clock.
I was working out of an interior, windowless office. It saved my sanity.

Stardock wouldn't exist without MS Windows. Who's the parasite there?

Stardock was founded as an OS/2 ISV incidentally...

Stardock was founded as an OS/2 ISV incidentally...

LOL, I knew that Brad; and didn't mean anything insulting. Just trying to make a point.

Today though, SD needs MS Windows to run it's software. The same cannot be said for MS. I don't think that meets the definition of "symbiosis".

Seems pretty cool, as long as it didnt kill too many K , Im interested to check it out too.

but.. "Experience life outside the box!" is a bit lame and theres not much by way of Extras, i'll pass on the poker game.

i have this on xp, called dreamrender which has been available since xp's release, kind of an obvious knockoff and you can do alot more than just videos with it.

the problem will be being able to get hi def video with a perfect loop so you cant see where it begins and ends, otherwise its very disturbing

right now i'm using video from a dvd called digital aquarium, not hidef which just doesnt look too great so i expect it to be quite a while before any company creates good hi quality looping content to make anyone want to use it, plus they'll likely charge a nice amount for it

there has been other stuff over the years that allow video on desktop, without hi def no one noticed those then and wont notice dreamscene without it now either so while i'm excited for it i'm also not cuz i doubt there will be much good looking looping content for it compared to the millions of crazy static wallpapers plus everyones thinking of vista being too "bloated" thanks to the thousands of forum threads with people complaining about vista turning evne more people away from it