Make Windows Unity windows look like Mac OS X Windows: WindowsBlinds with VMware Fusion
Chris White pinged us on Twitter the other day saying that he was using WindowsBlinds to skin his VMware Fusion Unity windows (Unity demo video here) in Windows look like Mac OS X windows.
We were intrigued, and asked him to take some screenshots to share with everyone.
Chris was nice enough to do so.
Here’s a shot of Internet Explorer with a Mac OS X WindowsBlinds skin on it. The visual style is “Leo.” Hmmmm…wonder what that stands for….?
Note how the “close” “minimize” and “maximize” buttons in the upper right of the window look like Mac OS X buttons:
And in a too-meta-moment, here’s a screenshot of the WindowsBlinds UI, which has itself been skinned!
Now VMWare is gonna announce us that it's free for every VMWare licence owner, right? ;-)
Posted by: StuFF mc | November 03, 2008 at 02:12 PM
So funny, all those Windows users installing skin apps to make their OS look a little bit less ugly and a little more Mac-like.
Posted by: Mark | November 03, 2008 at 02:57 PM
Actually, as the Chris White in the post, I really love Vista visually, I think it's fantastic and I use the default theme on both my Boot Camp install and on my PC workstation. But integration is really important to me when I'm running VMware and I want my Windows apps to fit perfectly into my OS X environment. This solution isn't perfect, but it helps!
Posted by: Chris White | November 04, 2008 at 01:24 PM