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 ...

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 ...

The Sliverlight crew has put together a Silverlight DreamScene that they call ''Dusk'' and are releasing at MIX07 this week, in both standard 4:3 and widescreen 16:9 aspect ratios.  The downloads are part of an updated Silverlight-enabled site that the team will be unveiling on Monday 30 April. But, as Brandon points out in his ...

Windows Vista Ultimate users may have noticed a nice little surprise today when checking for new Windows updates:  the Ultimate Extras Team has released a Technical Preview for Windows DreamScene.  You can get all the latest updates and information from the Ultimate Extras Team over at their Windows Ultimate site. This Technical Preview ...

Last night we released via Windows Update the first series of Windows Vista Ultimate Extras.  To get Ultimate Extras, you must have a copy of Windows Vista Ultimate.  The following Ultimate Extras were released last evening: Windows Texas Hold’em Poker BitLocker and EFS Enhancements   This is just the beginning ...

This year's keynote at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas by Bill Gates showed off Microsoft's upcoming Ultimate Extras for consumers who purchase the Windows Vista Ultimate SKU.  MS now has three Ultimate Extras lined up to hit Windows Vista Ultimate users on 30th January to coincide with Windows Vista's general availability ...