Stardock and Alienware Up the Ante for Annual "GUI Champs 2006" and Deliver $12,000 in Cash and Prizes Including an Alienware Area-51 m5750 Notebook

- Stardock Corporation Continues Its Dominance in Microsoft Windows® Customization and Partners with Alienware to Award Grand Prize to Jun Jiu Ying of China -

Plymouth, MI and Miami, FL - (November 05, 2006) – Stardock Corporation, the world's leading desktop enhancement company, and Alienware Corporation, a leading manufacturer of high-performance computer desktop, notebook, media center and professional systems, announced today the results of their joint partnership for the third annual Stardock GUI awards. Over $12,000 in cash and prizes were offered to winning participants of the Stardock GUIs, including an Area-51 m5750 notebook from Alienware. The winner, Jun Jiu Ying, took home the grand prize: the Area-51 m5750 featuring a 17-inch wide, XGA + 1440 x 900 LCD screen, an Intel Core 2 Duo Processor T 7200, 2.0GHz, 4MB Cache 667MHz FSB, and the AlienGUIse Xenomorph Theme Manager theme made exclusively for Alienware by Stardock Design.

President and CEO of Stardock Brad Wardell stated, "We're proud to continue our relationship with Alienware by providing exciting incentives for the Stardock GUIs. The Stardock GUIs have traditionally been something of a community competition, but with Alienware on board, we'’ve upped the ante to tap into the creativity of our Windows enhancement community, which currently exceeds two million people. We had a great turnout and look forward to more promotions with Alienware in the future. Congratulations to JJ Ying for his outstanding contribution to the community."

"Stardock's annual GUI Championship is a great opportunity for creative professionals to demonstrate their inventiveness and skills," said Mark Vena, Vice President of Marketing for Alienware, "Alienware is thrilled to be a sponsor for this year’s GUI Championships competition and we see the Stardock contest as a great way to promote great graphics design work."

The Stardock GUI's are an inter-website contest in which top graphics designers from around the world compete for $12,000 in cash and prizes. This year's contest focused on WindowBlinds visual styles, IconPackager icons, and Wallpapers.

To find out more about Stardock's GUI Championships 2006 visit www.guichamps.com.
To find out more about Alienware's notebooks and desktops visit www.alienware.com.

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About Alienware
Alienware offers unique and award-winning technology products that incorporate state-of-the-art components, innovative engineering and design, and unprecedented customer service. Alienware has been recognized by INC 500, won the Shoppers' Choice Award as the Best Performance Desktop by Computer Shopper's reader survey and received PC Magazine's Reader's Choice Award in its 18th Annual Reader Survey. In addition, the company recently earned a spot on PC World's list of the "25 Greatest PCs of All Time." Alienware systems are available direct within the United States, Europe, Australia and New Zealand. For more information, please visit www.alienware.com or call 1-800-ALIENWARE.

About Stardock
Stardock is the world's leading developer of Windows enhancement utilities. Its software is used by over 10 million people worldwide and has been licensed by trendsetting companies like NVIDIA, ATI, Alienware and Microsoft, plus in movies and TV. Stardock operates WinCustomize.com, the premier portal for Windows enhancement drawing more than 3 million unique visitors each month, in addition to one of the world's largest blogging communities, JoeUser.com. Stardock is a Microsoft Certified Gold Partner. The company's website is www.stardock.com.
 

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