boxless » microsoft http://www.boxless.info thought`s world Mon, 12 Jan 2009 20:26:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Expansion of the OpenID Foundation http://www.boxless.info/2008/02/08/expansion-of-the-openid-foundation/ http://www.boxless.info/2008/02/08/expansion-of-the-openid-foundation/#comments Fri, 08 Feb 2008 07:29:40 +0000 Todor Georgiev http://www.boxless.info/2008/02/08/expansion-of-the-openid-foundation/ A short announcement and a huge step for the OpenID movement. Google, IBM, Microsoft, VeriSign, and Yahoo! have joined the board of OpenID Foundation. This certainly will expand the use of OpenID. That`s great! I am really happy what happend with OpenID. A year before I wrote an article “Online Identity, what is the choice?”, where I had some doubts that this good technology would be interpreted by the giants in different ways and they would not join behind OpenID. I am glad the future is so bright.

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Royale Noir is verified-by-Microsoft XP theme. However being incomplete, it is not recommended for the general consumers and that`s why it is dusted in the Microsoft`s archive. You can download the theme from the Long Zheng`s article or from here.

To install the XP theme extract files to `c:\windows\resources\themes\royale noir` and double click on `luna.msstyles`. Select `Noir` from color scheme. I prefer from the Advanced settings to decrease the title bar height from 10 to 8, too.

A nice desktop for this theme could be the Hero`s one or any dark one.

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