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The Death of a Company, the Death of .MSStyles

The Death of a Company, the Death of .MSStyles

It has been two years now since any further software development was done by TGTSoft on its products, the last release of StyleXP was in June of 2006.  In my opinion and for all intents and purposes TGTSoft, who had its start in 2001, is gone.  No more staff, no more technical support, no more nothing.  To the best of my knowledge there is no one working at the company at all.  Emails to the owner go without being answered and telephone calls to known numbers only yield a small child’s voice saying, “Hello, you have reached Daddy.”  The last email I received said they were working on a fix for Windows XP SP3, and that was ages ago.  Nothing has been developed for designing .msstyles files for Windows Vista by TGTSoft or any company at all.  Porting of the .msstyles into SkinStudio is no longer an option in SKS 6.  With the death of TGTSoft comes the death of the .msstyles format, which forces me to make a large and decidedly sad decision.

I have developed themes for Windows XP and the .msstyles format since 2001 myself, and fully supported TGTSoft up until now, but I can no longer continue to do so without support from the company.

I also develop Windowblinds themes and have done so for almost 3 years now, and with the death of TGTSoft, I will only being developing Windowblinds themes from now on.  I will continue to offer my .msstyles on my website until such time as the format dies completely.

My first full Windowblinds theme, Shimmer, should be released sometime in July 2008.

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Reply #26 Top

, i mean who wants to live with the standard skins of Windows?
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My wife...who takes any XP system she is on and converts it back to Win2000 appearance.

The only reason she doesn't do it to her laptop is because I purchased the USC Gamecocks MyColours for her. (She's all about USC)

Reply #27 Top

Hopefully this thread will server as a reminder to those who had hoped WindowBlinds would "just die" back when Style XP first came out because .msstyles were the new standard.

Those people should be glad WindowBlinds didn't die. :)

Reply #28 Top

Wow, strange to see this old thread ressurected!  8|

Reply #29 Top

I love a good necrothread...

Reply #30 Top

I love a good necrothread...
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Me too... but I waited a week to reply... was hoping Moses would come along and add the 11th commandment...

Thou shalt not forsake WindowBlinds to use msstyles. :rofl: