Our god pal Neobond from Neowin has conducted an interview with Brad Wardell, President & CEO of Stardock Corporation. They talk about the Windows XP skinning community as well as competitive software to WindowBlinds the software flagship of StarDock. Here is an excerpt: Neowin: The reports on the net are that WindowBlinds 3 RC2/Final is faster and uses less memory than Windows XP?s styles. How can this be? How can a third party program be smaller and faster than what comes with Windows XP? Brad Wardell: Think of it like ones video drivers. The video drivers that ship with XP are usually not the best available. You go out and download new ones to get better performance and reliability. GUI skinning is much the same deal. We use the Windows XP framework just like msstyles does. What?s different is the skin format and the fact we have a small program in memory that can communicate with our DLL to accelerate painting, moving, resizing of windows as well as add features. If skinning is of interest to you be sure to read the full interview.