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Winstep Xtreme v10.9 Released!
October 14, 2010
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An integrated workspace environment, Winstep Xtreme is a powerful suite of applications that merge incredible usability and performance with breathtaking eye candy.
Winstep Xtreme runs on the 32 and 64 bit versions of Windows 2000, XP, 2003, Vista and Windows 7 and is currently available in the following languages: Bulgarian, Chinese (Simplified), Czech, Dutch, English, Farsi (Persian), French, German, Italian, Korean, Norwegian, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brasil), Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Spanish.
The v10.9 release is a major release. Feature highlights:

- Added new Squish, Spin, Sonic Boom, Heal, Fire, Magic, Flare, Wind and Water mouseover effects to docks and the Shelf:
- New particle mouseover animations can be colorized for thousands of different variations
- Each mouseover effect now has its own independent settings, such as magnitude, duration and color
- Added new Fire, Flare, Heal, Explosion and Magic menu opening animations:
- Added 'Do Not Launch Multiple Sessions' setting to the Misc.Advanced dialog so clicking on a shortcut of a running application brings that application forward instead of launching a new instance
- Added window thumbnails, with peek ability, that pop up when mousing over icons of running programs in the docks:
- Sub-docks can now be set to open parallel to the parent dock, instead of perpendicular.
- Sub-docks can now be set to open automatically on mouse over.
- Icon reflections can be optionally disabled on vertical docks and sub.docks to make them more compact.
- Dock can now be prevented from comming forward by accident when bumping the screen edge by enabling the new 'Disable edge activation' setting
- Explosion Animation, shown when an item is deleted, can now be disabled
- Balloon tooltip now display thumbnails of document and video files
- Dock alignment can now be set by dragging the dock horizontally or vertically
- Color of item labels can now be changed
- Added support for Bulgarian, Chinese (Simplified), Korean and Norwegian languages
- Much more!
Archived News
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Winstep Xtreme v11.10 Released!
November 18, 2011
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Weather module working again, new Launch and Attention effects, new Tray tab in Preferences, and more...
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Nexus Dock v11.10 Released!
November 18, 2011
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Weather module working again, new Launch and Attention effects, and more...
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Weather feed down!
November 6, 2011
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Weather module not working? Find out why and what is being done about it.
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Winstep Xtreme v11.6 Released!
July 6, 2011
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Maintenance release of Winstep Xtreme.
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Nexus Dock v11.6 Released!
July 6, 2011
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Maintenance release of Nexus and Nexus Ultimate.
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New Winstep Theme: DarkTech
June 24, 2011
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Brought to you by the Winstep design team - more in-house themes currently in the pipeline.
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Winstep Xtreme v11.5 Released!
June 23, 2011
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System tray icon customization, ability to mix mouseover effects, support for animated icons, and much more!
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Nexus Dock v11.5 Released!
June 20, 2011
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Dock mouseover effects can now be combined with magnify effect, support for animated icons, and much more!
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Winstep Xtreme v11.2 Released!
March 14, 2011
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New release featuring increased support for Microsoft's High DPI virtualization technology, and much more!
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Nexus Dock v11.2 Released!
March 14, 2011
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New release featuring increased support for backgrounds of 3rd party docks, preserving aspect ratio of image thumbnails, and much more!
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Start Menu Organizer v1.5 Released!
March 14, 2011
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New release adding more languages and increasing compatibility with 64 bit versions of Windows!
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Winstep Xtreme v10.9 Released!
October 14, 2010
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Major release featuring nine new incredible dock mouseover effects, five new menu opening animations, Windows 7 "Superbar" ability with window previews and aeropeek capability on docks, horizontal sub-docks, and much more!
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Nexus Dock v10.9 Released!
October 8, 2010
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Major release featuring nine new incredible dock mouseover effects, Windows 7 "Superbar" ability with window previews and aeropeek capability, and much more!
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Nexus featured at Download.com!
October 8, 2010
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Nexus featured on the front page of Cnet's Download.com!
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Start Menu Organizer v1.4 Released!
August 9, 2010
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Version 1.4 fixes an issue in which the Pro version of the program could stop when expanding the Administrative Tools group and adds support for 23 languages.
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Winstep Xtreme featured at Download.com!
July 18, 2010
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Winstep Xtreme has been featured on the front page of Cnet's Download.com, not once, but twice!
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Winstep Xtreme v10.6 Final Released!
July 13, 2010
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Roughly 1 year in the making, the official upgrade to Winstep Xtreme v9.5 is finally here!
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Nexus Dock v10.6 Released!
July 13, 2010
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Maintenance release of our free popular Winstep Nexus dock.
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Winstep announces strategic alliance with Proxma AG!
July 13, 2010
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Proxma AG will market Winstep products in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
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Start Menu Organizer v1.3 Released!
July 2, 2010
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New version of the Winstep Start Menu Organizer featuring support for even more languages.
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Welcome to our new web site!
June 15, 2010
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The Winstep web site gets a brand new face to match the quality of our products.
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