But anyways, my real annoyance came when I was playing with Xenocode Postbuild. I downloaded the eval and went to virtualize a simple winforms app. I got a dialog saying I needed to activate ( which my firewall at work said HELL NO to ) but look at the color scheme:

I loaded this screenshot as 24bit uncompressed so you could see exactly what I see. Look at that cyan looking small point text. What the hell is that? I had to flood fill it to be able to read it:

This just seems sleazy to me and reinforces my perception that something just doesn't quite smell right in the virtualization market.
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I don't know that I would call it sleazy, but they missed something in the QA process. Do you run your system with a custom desktop color configuration? If you are using a standard color configuration then that is their BAD.
In any case, I did not see anything in the text that indicates any type of sleazy subversive type of behavior. What I did see was poor UI and QA for their configuration UI.
Nope, just running XP with the default of... Blue :-)
Hi Chris,
This is Kenji with Xenocode.
I promise there is nothing sleazy going on here -- just a bad color palette on XP. The secret text just lets you know that a couple fields are optional and that we don't sell your email address.
Also, for clarification, Postbuild does *not* have any per-end-user royalties.
Never ascribe to malice what can be better explained by incompetence. I think I agree with Dan. And even if you could see the lettering, it seems sloppy to decorate the blanks with that info; wouldn't some kind of flyover tip be better?
Sleazy is probably the wrong word. I will say that I did have an instant feeling of `someones trying to get something by me` though since I couldn't ascertain what the text said.
I'm running standard XP themes so I don't know how this could have been ignored.
And yes, there are no per-seat royalties with Postbuild which is exactly why I was playing with this particular application instead of others.
Whoa! I didn't have a clue! I am running 2 monitors in 32-bit color and didn't even notice those labels.
:O subliminal messages !!
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