More like a truckload. By the time DX is Vista/7 ready, Windows 8 will be out, undoubtedly with new rules and compatibility issues. Crap like UAC and other "permissions"/"ownership" restrictions may be the nail in the DX coffin.

 Windows Sidebar gadgets can access all sorts of system info that DX cannot and they are more accurate. (a good trade off with skinability)

 WMP has much better sound quality than the DX player.

If DX can't at least equal what is already available to the PC user for free, why would anyone want to buy it, or even use it for that matter?

Oh, maybe because RedneckDude makes skins for it.

Well, it does have that going for it.

Very good response, Philly!!!!

 Check is in the mail, John!

Windows 8 has the possibility of really changing the desktop in regards to apps and such.  It's still early, but it looks like desktop apps will be html5 powered.

Hm, reads different for me. But then again that was when more 'love' for Object Desktop was promised also...

Yeah, that's a big part of why I pretty much feel like the desktop, as we know it, is dead. With moblie devices driving the computing experience, the desktop will become the 'start screen,' an even faster way to get somewhere else, with no room in its structure for 'eye-candy' or much ofthe unconventional widgets/themes we make with DesktopX.

It's still a ways off, for sure, and it all depends on how well the Windows tiles concept is received.

Well lets think about that a little bit sViz. 

Not a whole lot of folks took to Vista and they stayed with XP.  Windows 7, although considered an improvement over Vista by some folks still didn't reduce XP users by a lot. 

I have taken a look at some of the Windows 8 stuff on the Internet and I have to say that there really doesn't seem much that would interest me.  I suppose that may be that I don't have a tablet and my cell phone is probably third or fourth generation old when it comes to the user interface. 

So I wonder where the majority of the consumer base is?  Yes some will jump on the Windows 8 bandwagon because it is new. 

There is that unknown factor involved here also, just what is Brad and his folks working on that might still allow the desktop/laptop user some flexibility when it comes to setting up a desktop environment that suites the user's requirements.

I guess we will all have to just be patient and wait and see. 

So we all have 1-2 GB graphic-cards, 4+ GB RAM, i7 multicores and what not to look at plain boring unicolored or least simple gradient tiles in the future ? No thanks.

BTW, DektopX can do that NOW. This is a corporate desktop Gadget I did for a company. Everybody there is using it. It reads all the info and user based parameters except the weather from MS Access and MS SQL databases. As a mixed thing that looks quite nice imho. For me DesktopX is so much more than a weather and system-specs display tool.

Where are you getting that from?

http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/229223/microsoft_windows_8_wont_require_a_new_pc.html

"We've extended the trend we started with Windows 7, of keeping our system requirements either flat or reducing them over time. So Windows 8 will be able to run on a wide range of machines because it will have the same system requirements or lower" as Windows 7, said Michael Angiulo, the Microsoft executive who showed the new software at a press event in Taipei on Thursday.

"Another thing we did is build intelligence into Windows 8 to adapt the user interface based on what hardware you have. So whether you're upgrading or buying a new PC, Windows will adapt itself for your hardware," he said.

I think You got that one wrong. I meant we all have really decent hardware now. It is too good to just have the Metro GUI like unicolored tiles with some black or white text. Metro is okay for the phone but for descent PCs I would want more.