Ill make a wallpaper just for this and name it Atsiv.

well nutz .. and i was going to change my nick to HG_Vistanator....

LoL..Yeah HG...I have been here awhile..I know that you *Know better, if anybody does...

hehe coo.. ya had me worried that my attempt at sarcasm, was badly implemented...

Yup. I hated it then, too.

Seeing 'Vista', 'XP', or any logo, right down to that little freakin' apple on the start button is enough to keep me from downloading it. (Then again, I did an anti-vista/longhorn wall about a year or so ago) <<<< shameless plug!

But I really do hate it. Especially 'poor' renderings of the logo's or 'style'.

I knew a guy, way back in the 70's when people still used matches to light their cig's. He would buy matches by the box, but they had to be plain white covers. His theory was that if he was going to advertise for someone else, he should get paid for it. He drove a Pontiac Catalina, and even pulled off all of the Pontiac logo's and stuff. he would say "I have already given up my hard earned money for the product. If I am to advertise further, I should get something." He also used to go around repeating some stupid limerick about 'Doo-I-Ditty' and would go berserk if you used one of his matches. (20 matches-20 cigarette's)

The phrase is more commonly 'Trend Whoring'...

Just ask Misery [Deaddreamer]...

Phoon, you are right on..

When I see low qual Vista 'named" skins being downloaded at 3x the rate of well executed non-Vista named skins it really says a lot about the state of affairs as it pertains to the communty's collective psyche.

I personally refuse however to compormise my artisic integrity in lieu of higher download counts.   

That's not saying I wont design for Vista, I just won't masquerade as it.

yes we need less vista stuff.... we need more dolphins,spheres and brittany stuff

OY VAY!!!

or should I say OY VISTA!!!

Flaming Aero of Death (in case you missed it earlier)

Well Said (oh my poor english but quote is a good thing when you find what exactly you think)

You want inspiration...a long time ago, in DC comics,there existed a world called Bizzaro. It was a square world, people drove cars with square wheels. Almost everything was opposite to our more 'conventional' world. Why not start a trend along those lines. Any takers?

Been done.  Anything by I.R. Brainiac!