Okay, that one works, but still is only a workaround. And I wouldn't want to do a whole new tabbed dock with that.

Hmm, I'm interested in this product but if it doesn't work well with 64-bit stuff that's a no go.  What's the deal here?  Does this work with 64 bit stuff or not?

Yes, ObjectDock does seem to have been on the backburner for quite some time now.  I upgraded to OD2 when it was first released and little or nothing has been done with it since then... update-wise, etc.

I run Win 8.1 x64 and haven't used OD for quite a while because it had issues... and no, I didn't submit a ticket with support because they were the same issues as everyone else, and figured one more ticket wasn't going to get it fixed any sooner, just help clog the support desk.

OD2 is developed by a contracted programmer outside of Stardock Corp., I assumed there is nothing can Stardock do but abiding the willingness. 

Don't be pessimistic yet,it has possible cease developed but not probably. The thing is as I mentioned before,it's really not feasible having "dock" on the Win 8 system;with tiles all over the desktop,a "dock" only made it more cluttered and messy. 

*sigh* With Start8 installed (a Stardock product) I have EVERY need for a dock on the desktop. I don't need it on touch or a tablet (although there is a dock for Win 8 (Launch 8), guess by whom ? - Yes, STARDOCK).

And Gaspershooters please get Your facts right, ObjectDock is developed by the same guy that does FENCES (regulary updated, no need for it on Win 8 also folloowing Your 'logic').

Following Your logic Fences is of no use on Win 8 also, so no need to devolop it further, But is IS. OD+ although as useful is not.

Ok,I retracted that statement as I haven't use Win 8 yet and must missed the part Phoon mentioned about. However,based on that (Tiles shown on Start Menu),OB is still too old to attract users on current market trends,on the other hand,"Launch 8" is quite incentive than that OD.      

Have you know the demographic users on Stardock?? Especially on customized parts??  It's aged.  And search it on Google,all of relative articles (non-Stardock ones about OD) are all back to 2 or long years. The only I found the newest is this one:http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/objectdock-quickly-customize-your-desktop-and-increase-its-functionality-windows/ and that was April,2013. 

Maybe, just maybe the reason is there has not been any update nor bugfixing nor listening to users since then ?

Hi everyone,I see all the ruckus.I also would be very interested in knowing if OD will either be ongoing development or discontinuing the program.I am running OD on Windows7 64 bit ultimate and I have had only one problem with it. The problem is that when I bring up the user interface to change docks and tiles it stops responding for about 30 secs. then all is fine just a small annoyance,but otherwise OD runs fine on my 64bit OS.

I'm not sure how you can say it "works as it should"

It works fine if you only deal with 32-bit applications and never need to use the sys tray - maybe.

- it doesn't create icons for 64 bit apps correctly and while it is thoroughly pathetic that 64 bit has been around for ages and software is rarely 64 bit even today, there are more and more 64 bit apps coming around

- it doesn't handle the sys tray at all (so you can't really get rid of the task bar) - could be a plug in for this but the app should do it by default since the sys tray has been in windows since the dawn of time

- it doesn't handle steam apps correctly - and granted steam isn't a part of windows but when you consider it has 65m users and Stardock themselves distribute their games thru Steam you might think it would get some consideration.  If windows itself is able to figure out what icon belongs to a Steam shortcut, then OD should be able to do so as well

Considering the absolute zero responses to this thread or the other one I posted here I would guess this product is dead, which is pretty sad.

I could probably get a response on this faster posting about it on the GalCiv III forum, which is pretty pathetic.

PS - Rocketdock has similar limitations and problems, which would suggest that this seemingly basic functionality is due to windows itself or something, which makes this product totally useless and is another reason to love/hate MS (I develop in C#/.net and generally love MS but they do some damn annoying things - like IE being a constant thorn in the side of web developers/designers, rendering HTML in outlook with Word, plenty of other stuff, and now this?).