Was reading through Digg when I came across an elegant official black theme for Windows XP that was developed by Microsoft but never released to the public.
Sometime after the launch of XP, somewhere in Redmond, someone on the Microsoft design team was in the progress of developing something for Media Center. It was believed to be too powerful for public consumption and forever archived in the servers at 1 Microsoft Way. Now 3 years later, a young hobbit man by the name of W3bbo saw light of this unheard of theme, and traveled far and wide to uncover its mysteries. One theme to find. One theme to upload. One theme to rule them all. read more here
Click here to download the theme
Extract files to “c:\windows\resources\themes\royale noir†and double click on “luna.msstylesâ€. Select “Noir†from color scheme and enjoy 🙂
Update: Khristopher posted a better new Windows XP theme that’s also by Microsoft. You can get it here
don’t use that one. it’s incomplete and not official.
use the zune official theme.
http://www.zune.net/en-us/meetzune/software.htm
Better? The Zune theme sucks.
And yes, it *is* official, signed by Microsoft and everything; just never released.
Up-to-date word, Windows 8 should be with us in 2 years. One of Microsofts subsidiary companies leaked out the expected release date over the last few days. Lets hope it follows the Windows 7 development process.We do not wish to experience another Vista fiasco