Microsoft Delivers animated wallpaper with Windows DreamScene
Posted by Brad Wardell on January 8, 2007 at 7:03 am · There are 2 comments
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- Posted by xxdesmus on January 8th, 2007 at 3:09 pm
Oh fine, I guess you’ll MAKE me upgrade to Ultimate when I get my free copy of Business.
- Posted by GP on January 8th, 2007 at 6:47 pm
We still don’t know what the upgrade costs will be, for the Anytime upgrade bits I mean. I know the show just started, so we should have more info as the days go on.
You can read our news item here.
But Microsoft unveiled some of the Ultimate Extras tonight. We’ll be covering this more in the next few hours as we get caught up on all the NDAs that are starting to expire.
DreamScene is a program that I worked with quite a bit over the past year (when it was called Motion Desktop). It uses the new Windows Vista compositor to deliver high definition video content as your desktop background.
Microsoft asked Stardock to consult on the development, provide wallpaper content, and create tools and extensions for it.
The first tool we’ll talk more about soon is called DeskScapes which extends DreamScene to support dynamic content (i.e. live 3D content). This free program should be available by the time Windows Vista Ultimate becomes generally available.
More to come, they’re kicking us out of the press room.