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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