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January 28, 2007 | Comments: (0)

Vista countdown tips: Desktop video clips

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Tip 4: Desktop video clips.
Okay, two days out: Microsoft introduced yet one more new whizbang feature that your users are going to love: using videos as wallpaper instead of just snapshots. It's a little painful if you use the wrong video, but with the right clip it's totally sci-fi-real genius-Matrix without Keanu cool.

Billy G. introed the new feature at CES--on January 14. I missed that speech since that's my birthday and I was busy crawling into a bottle of brandy over turning 41. But I did manage to pick up a few details:

1. The feature is called 'Dreamscape'
2. It's only usable with Vista Ultimate, so expect those upper floor execs to have one more reason to ask for Vista Ultimate over Business or Enterprise.
3. But it's still a downloadable extra, not an installed feature--I checked my copy of Ultimate soon as I heard.
4. It wants WMV or MPEG 2 files.

There you go. Just make sure nobody uploads a ripped copy of Girls Gone Wild or something.

Posted by Oliver Rist on January 28, 2007 06:00 PM

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