New Windows Vista Ultimate Dreamscene wallpaper

Windows Vista Ultimate users rejoice! A bit. There's a new Dreamscene background available for download, produced by the Silverlight team. Silverlight, in case you haven't been following the cutting edge of website development, is a new Microsoft technology for creating programs that run in your web browser - everything from proper tools to streaming video.

To celebrate the release of the first beta, the team have created a new Windows Vista DreamScene background - a soothing blue affair with twirlingshapes, like a very low-key version of the Ribbons screensaver. It's not a proper Windows Vista Ultimate Extra, so it's not on Windows Update -  you can download it from the Microsoft website.



Microsoft Silverlight “Dusk” DreamScene (standard screen size)
Microsoft Silverlight "Dusk" DreamScene (widescreen)

If you want to have a go at using Silverlight yourself, the ever-helpful Ian Moulster has happened upon some guides at NibblesTutorials.net. One of the most exciting things you can do with it is video streaming; you get 4GB of free storage that you can stream anywhere you like, without any Microsoft branding. Check out www.lovelewisham.tv for an example.