For over a decade, Windows has featured customisation through ‘themes’ but this never is equal to the degree of customisation offered by software such as WindowsBlinds. Windows users often wow when they say a machine running WindowsBlinds, so why don’t Microsoft ship Windows with a similar feature?

Surely the naive public would be even more impressed by Vista’s eyecandy if they could actually choose how their operating system looks. Instead, they have to pay $20 for a bit of shareware they probably didn’t even realise existed!

For the next Windows, perhaps Microsoft should provide a truly customisable UI. Consumers to corporations would all love placing their own branding on their installation and it’d break that Windows feeling of uniformity!