sintaxasn Posted December 6, 2004 Share Posted December 6, 2004 Hi Guys, I was wondering if anyone had any information regarding the legal use of the Energy Blue theme. I'm working on a company wide XP deployment and a lot of people have seen Energy Blue and expressed an interest in having it the default theme. It's cleaner looking than Luna.However, as it was intended for use on Tablet PC, and you need to bypass the original Microsoft Exe to get it working under XP, I'm not sure if we're "allowed" to use it, even though it's digitally signed by MS.Anyone have any info or thoughts on this? An official stance would be great but probably difficult to get Thanks, Dan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sintaxasn Posted December 10, 2004 Author Share Posted December 10, 2004 Nobody ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prathapml Posted December 10, 2004 Share Posted December 10, 2004 Its meant for use only on Tablet PC, so you have already seen that it doesn't install on XP home/pro.But if you want to use it, don't bother about "allowed". It would just come in the same category as people hacking the uxtheme.dll and using 3rd party VisualStyles. MS won't really bother to come and get you just for the Royale theme. On the contrary, the longer you are fascinated with their products, the better for them since you get locked-in to them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vorte[x] Posted January 9, 2005 Share Posted January 9, 2005 It's not legal although they don't really care enough to take any legal action. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arablizzard2413 Posted January 31, 2005 Share Posted January 31, 2005 Actually the royal theme is part of Media Center (but it's called energy blue)... it might be part of Tablet PC as well, I don't know. They won't care, it's just a style and you need the operating system to use it anyway, so they still get money in the end. (it came free with a different os, so it's like using a free game that came in a cereal box on multiple computers) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meno Posted January 31, 2005 Share Posted January 31, 2005 the energy blue theme is awesome Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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