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Stuff that dreams are made of

MICROSOFT HAS finally gotten around to releasing a couple of those Windows Vista Ultimate Extras that buyers were promised at the beginning of the year, after heavy criticism in the past few days over their no-show.
Today sees Dreamscene hit the interweb, the feature that Gates touted at CES as being 'next generation'. It involves looping video as a desktop background, rather than simply a static picture.

Back in January, the Vole promised that those forking out the extra dosh for the 'Ultimate' edition of Vista would get plenty of extra goodies to download, making it worthwhile. Well, the Extras pack launched with Texas Hold'Em poker, which is fine, but then nothing new appeared. Dreamscene has been promised for months and only now makes an appearance, and added language packs are still MIA.

Also MIA, we'd suggest, is anything remotely useful or worth investing the extra money on. If we'd spent our cash on Ultimate, we'd be feeling pretty annoyed right now. Although, probably more self-loathing, if we're honest.
Volish fanbois can grab Dreamscene from Windows Update now.
Whoop.

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