Just in case you were wondering why it was taking Microsoft so long to deliver on its initial promises with an exclusive collection of content for Windows Vista Ultimate, the answer is rather simple. The Windows Ultimate Extras team has vanquished in thin air (although Long Zheng has another theory)! Just imagine the scale of the Live Search parties over at the Redmond campus for the team. Microsoft managed to lose the entire Windows Ultimate Extras group on the way to the final version of DreamScene. This is not good, no matter how you’d try to look at it.

But is not just a matter of perspective. Windows Vista Ultimate users are the one that have to suffer. However, there are little details available over the faith of the Windows Ultimate Extras team. The last known sign of life and activity was towards the end of March 2007. Alex Kipman, the Ultimate’s Group Manager posted a blog entry back in March highlighting future content designed to integrate with the DreamScene technology. Essentially, Kipman was promising that the Ultimate Extras team would deliver an animated version of the Windows Ultimate Wallpaper - Start, as a video background for DreamScene.