Bill Gates held a keynote during CES where he gave another glimpse into new features of the upcoming Windows Vista Ultimate operating system. A single new feature, that is.

I would say the expectations should be quite high since this new feature is only available in the version named Ultimate. It is an ultimate disappointment to learn that the new feature is live video behind the desktop!

Vista has been accused being a shameless copy of an early version of Mac OS X, and the news from mr Gates does nothing to reduce the validity of this accusation. This feature is built into Mac OS X, but it is not promoted in any way. The reason is probably that it is great for showing off, but that in reality it is an utterly useless and resource consuming function.

You can easily take advantage of this feature using the command line or a little program called Quartz Desktop.

Update: A program that probably gets closer to DreamScene is DeskShade which allows you to play movies on the desktop as well as offering a wide variety of slideshow effects.

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