First, a mini-rant. Microsoft should take the lead from Apple’s Mac OS X and have one single version of Vista. Why, for example is Bitlocker available in the Ultimate Edition (and Enterprise) but not the Business Edition? Don’t business users without Software Assurance need to encrypt too?
Did you know that there is a Windows Vista Ultimate blog? Yep, you can find it at…
It seems to be updated about once a quarter with two previous mini-blog bursts in mid-March and early July. In the meantime, Vista Ulitimate Edition users have enjoyed seeing, um, absolutely nothing except the usual security hold patches released (some printer drivers that work would be nice but don’t seem to exist). The blog announces that the DreamScene pack that was supposed to be released much earlier (Vista’s ship date would have been nice) was finally released. So, yep, there are some new animated desktops and the ability to use your own video (I thought we could already do that?).
StarDock has a site at dream.wincustomize.com dedicated to DreamScene. This DreamGallery site provides two free utilities, DreamScapes and DreamMaker, to provide new functions to DreamScene.
Well, I guess we have to wait for December or January for the next blog update from the Vista Ultimate Blog. I’d prefer something to removes or reduces the impact of the DRM slow-down code myself so that Vista would be a bit peppier on a “mere” Core 2 Duo box.
Here’s a win-win idea, how about a Vista Ultimate extra: HD-DVD decoder. So we can watch HD-DVDs in Ultimate Media Center. Then everyone who paid for Ultimate won’t feel cheaped out, and we’ll all start forking out money to buy the DVD format that Microsoft is backing.