Nope I make what i like

Fuzzy : The good thing about 7 is : It runs much better on old hardware than Vista.

1. I think many of the old ones are too old to update. Some of the new ones perhaps.

2. I just finished one. Although it's for XP and Vista as well.

3. As John mentions about supporting 3 OS's, this is one of my griefs as well. I can manage 2, 3 is a bit much. Yeah, I'm lazy, but I also support progress and would love to see people move away from XP to something new and modern. There's a ton of time consuming bits to XP skins that are annoying to do.

AMEN!

I would like to is see more for W-7 but have found that most of the newere skins for Vista work just fine in W7 RC 1 64 bit, It is some of the older ones that do not work correctly

I would update my skins but i can't run the beta of sks 7 (says that it can't write the code of activation )

And i've plan to make skin for vista and 7

I've totally finished my moving to Win-7 today. Good bye XP (because too old) and Vista (because it requires too much resources). I've removed these both OS forever (together with all old stuff). The future is much better than past...

1. No.

2. I've done new WB skin which support all of Win-7 visual effects. Besides I made a new skin for IE8 (without using WB).

3. For Win-7 only because I'm always going forward and have no desire to return back. XP and Vista are in the past...

my sentiments exactly!

Adding yet another OS does create a dilemma for skinners. I don't think anyone should be expected to make skins for 3 different OS' so the original questions are valid.

What you don't want is large sections of users feeling left out because there are no new skins for them. The reality is the majority are still going to be using XP. It's going to take a long time for people to adopt W7. It will happen eventually, but not the way the move from 98 to XP happened. Vista has left many with a nasty taste in their mouth, not something easily overcome.

I agree that making skins for WB4 will eventually have to come to an end, preferably sooner rather than later.  What happens two years from now when MS releases Windows8 ?  Will skinnners have to make skins for four different OS's?   I think not. 

However, I do see (possibly a desperate) need for skins that WB7 users can use right away, and I think that the fastest way to do that is to update the best of the older skins. Since those skins already include support for WB4 - WB5 and a smaller but signficant fraction WB6, that I think is where our efforts should initially start. Once we have a good selection of updated skins, then, by all means, move on and make skins for Vista and Windows7 only.  Personally, I can't see how we can get to that stage in under a year.  Some especially good skinners dominate my current collection. and updating all of those seems to me would be a herculean task.

Edit:  To Stardock....  I really enjoyed many of the demo skins that came with earlier versions of WB.  That might be a good place to start. 

Trying something new, afterall, ay?

Indeed... now some of them have another OS to copy/rip

Yesh. I suppose we'll be seeing endless W7 clones.

Don't get me started on this subject, I just end up seeing red

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This in mind, if I do get into blinds, I will probably just skin Vista and Seven. I hear that XP is a Vitch and I am currently having trouble getting it installed anyway.

Well as I see there seems to be a few individuals who are against the cloning of windows 7 which is really surprising to me. As Microsoft is actually encouraging people to make Visual Styles of Windows 7 for personal use and for upload. Mabe I am wrong but I think if someone actually takes the time to make a windowblind theme and go that extra mile maybe they should be embraced instead of critifized. AFter all, its very easy to make the Visual Styles. Microsoft even has a How-To for anyone who wants tor try....

I've already tried to do this... As a result my IE8 has been totally reskinned without using of SKS and WB and looks very great. And now I nearly found the way to make this with another parts of OS...

This work takes a bit more time. However the modifying of files like *.msstyles, shell32.dll, imageres.dll, etc... will allow me not only reskin the window borders and taskbar but to change the style of any applications and icons. And no any problems with bugs and OS compatibility...