Barry Goffe, Director of Windows Ultimate, today disclosed on windowsultimate.com that the remaining 18 language packs (with Serbian still forthcoming) have been made available via Windows Update. The additional supported languages are: Arabic Bulgarian Read More……(read more)

update:   because of a miscommunication, I mistakenly stated that the release of the Serbian MUI pack was held up; this is not the case — Serbian is indeed available as of today.

Barry Goffe, Director of Windows Ultimate, today disclosed on windowsultimate.com that the remaining 18 19 language packs have been made available via Windows Update.

The additional supported languages are:

• Arabic
• Bulgarian
• Croatian
• Czech
• Estonian
• Greek
• Hebrew
• Hungarian
• Latvian
• Lithuanian
• Polish
• Portuguese (Portugal)
• Romanian
• Serbian
• Slovak
• Slovenian
• Thai
• Turkish
• Ukrainian

Also, this release includes an update to the lpksetup.exe installation component, correcting issues that affected some customers at installation.  We recommend you download and install this component before installing any language packs; the updated component can be found here.

A multi-language user interface (MUI) pack allows a user to run Windows Vista Ultimate in one of 35 36 available languages.  You can quickly switch among languages on a single installation of Windows Vista by associating a system language with your login name.

Barry also mentions his team’s plan to ship additional Extras soon, with details forthcoming.

Barry Goffe, Director of Marketing for Windows Vista Ultimate, has posted an update about Ultimate Extras over on windowsultimate.com . The upshot of Barry’s note is that today we’re releasing via Windows Update the final version of Windows DreamScene, Read More……(read more)

update 13:59 PDT:  DreamScene is not available in the Windows Vista SP1 Beta; however, it will be made available with a later release of SP1. 

Barry Goffe, Director of Marketing for Windows Vista Ultimate, has posted an update about Ultimate Extras over on windowsultimate.com.  The upshot of Barry’s note is that today we’re releasing via Windows Update the final version of Windows DreamScene, as we’d committed to doing earlier this summer.  We’re doing this in conjunction with Stardock, with whom we’re offering some really cool new 3D animated DreamScene desktops.  Stardock has been a terrific community partner in helping us finalize the DreamScene release and further extending the capabilities of Windows Vista.  In fact, Stardock has created DeskScapes, a tool that extends Windows DreamScene by enabling it to run animated wallpapers as .dream files.  These files can be looped video or dynamically generated 3D content, and can even change based on a set of triggers.  The Stardock Dream Gallery is the place for the community to create, upload and share custom DreamScenes with the Windows Vista Ultimate

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