Neowin Interviews: Stardock President & CEO Brad Wardell!

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Today, Neowin is interviewing Stardock?s Brad Wardell to get his take on all this. Click here to read the interview. Here´s a scoop:
Brad Wardell is President & CEO of Stardock Corporation. A small (couple dozen employees) Midwestern software company that develops Object Desktop, a desktop enhancement suite, and several games such as The Corporate Machine, Galactic Civilizations, Stellar Frontier, and more. The best known program of the Object Desktop suite is called WindowBlinds, a program with an installed base of over 4 million users. But recently, as Stardock has moved towards the final release of WindowBlinds version 3, it has faced a new challenge from Windows XP itself. WindowBlinds 3 extends Windows XP to support UIS skins (UIS is the skin language supported by WindowBlinds, ICQPlus 3.1, MediaJukebox, and several other companies licensed to use UIS). But with a new program called Style XP, Windows XP can be modified to support Microsoft?s .msstyles skin format. It does so by patching a system DLL known as uxtheme.dll to disable the digital signing security. This enables anyone to make .msstyles. So head over to NeoWin to read the complete interview.