What in the world are you trying to say, and to whom? Try whole sentences for the sake of clarity. 

Well fine I'll have a crack at it, with the disclaimers 1) that I don't run Win7 2) I am so very frequently so very wrong and 3) I have a lousy sense of time.

Tough to tell on timing what you have (Orig Poster) and what you don't, by "last year".  WB7 was certainly a nice overhaul from WB6 with a lot of nice colorizing and minor skin tweaking options.  Tiles (I think) would be included in an OD sub and can be useful for organizing running tasks and shortcuts, particularly if you tend to have a lot of things running.  WinFX4 has a lot of window behavior modification options and is primarily geared towards Win7.  I'm thinking Deskscapes might have changed a little, not sure.  As has already been mentioned "one-click-total-skinning" isn't available right now.

Tron flashbacks

WOW I came here to see about maybe a new purchase of OD but seeing how this guy (gmknobl) has been treated it's definitely time to uninstall and delete.

This place needs to be renamed Stardick.

Unbelievable how a long time customer is treated. I don't purchase a lot from here but certainly will not anymore.

I will also not be purchasing any games through impulse and certainly not Gamestop. Maybe Stardock's current attitude comes from Gamestop?

Way to go folks.

I know this is just a drop in the bucket on my part but after reading all of this dropping this product and any future products from this company is the least I can do.

You know, I think the biggest part of the problem here is communication.

A lot of us who are here (and who purchase the non gaming products that Stardock 'occasionally' offers) often feel like we're the afterthought of the business meetings.

So, Stardock makes more money from games than from Object Desktop. I can live with that, it's just a fact of life in that world (and I do prefer a world with Stardock in it than one without). I'm not commenting to say that Stardock should abandon a profitable enterprise.

But, would it be *so* hard to keep us in the loop about it?

It's like ODNT is the redheaded stepchild of the business (even though it's what got you started in the first place).

Throw us a bone every now and then.

Update more than the one or two marquee programs on a regular basis (how about real updates to WFX or virtual desktops [and so on]?).

CursorFX leaks memory like a collander (I use it, and I get *massive* memory usage from explorer, I don't use it, and there's no issue).

I (we) don't expect miracles. I'm not asking you to get everything in ODNT fresh and pretty in the next 24 hours or so.

But, it would be nice if you let us know that you *really* are giving it some attention, and that you're not hanging us out to dry, just because we're not buying 'Sins' or 'Elementals' (or whatever the 'game of the week' is).

You got to where you are *because* of us.

Don't toss us to the curb just because something prettier came along.

https://forums.wincustomize.com/312133

skittles, sorry I don't know you but you made a very nice statement.

This type of thread keeps poping up again and again. Now it's starting to wear on some nerves of people which I can understand. You said "Stay Tuned". I'm just another person saying something and am happy to just be a member and try to just go with the flow. I really think the problem is with the "Stay Tuned" as everyone has said it for months and nothing happens. It apears to me that in all there is said this communication thing keeps coming up.

Impulse was sold and Stardock most likely made some good money. That is what they are supposed to do and good for them. However as soon as the members found out the question was how are we going to check on our status, downloads, updates, etc. Answer was another means was being worked on and will be available soon. Well it's been quite a while now and no additional word on when that may happen except when this type of thread is posted the same answers get told.

I totally believe things would calm down if there was more communication from Stardock. Example: Be patient, stay tuned, working on new stuff, saying things like when it gets done it will be done. All people would like to see is an updated message each month or two as to what may be taking place with OD products.

I'm waiting, being pastient, not complaining here and it would be fine if we were told again used as an example, there will be a new program for updating, etc available in early 2012. If when that time came and things were moved back to mid 2012, fine. That would be communication that I strongly feel would help this type of situation.

Hell these post are getting out of hand now as someone says something and another person thinks it's related to them and so on. Everyone will have their own opinions but when members start getting mad at other members it's not a good situation that again, simple communication can solve most of the problem. There are to many good people from Members to Mods, to Statdock Employees for a situation that can be resolved very easy. Communication.

Windows 7 had changes which make a bootskin application simply non viable which is why there is no BootSkin for Windows 7.

There are new things in development and I hope we will be able to release a video of something new within the next week.

Actually I am working said video, and it's pretty cool.  

 As for me, I'd rather see new and exciting programs and features for the present OS and development of current apps for the future. (which seems to get here faster and faster.)   Fences and Tiles are good examples.

Dropping old apps that are "past their prime" in favor of improving what people are using now just makes good sense. (As long as DX stays on the "not dead yet" list)

All of us have favorite programs we would like to see updated but as Frogboy said:

That's the reality of the present and we all have to face it. Now, can we please stop all the infighting and try to behave as an adult community?

P.S. Thanks for the reply, Brad. It lets us know you are listening.