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January 13, 2007 5:42 pm AEST — By Long Zheng

The Vista “Wow” PCs

Microsoft showed off this teaser video at CES 2007 for the new range of Windows Vista inspired and certified PCs during Bill Gates’ keynote. It’s one of those standard marketing videos with spinning laptops and flying buzzwords, but I can’t help noticing the similarities between it and the Apple Mac OSX ‘Welcome’ video.

Even though the text animation and music may be similar, I still believe both videos are equally cool in its own unique ways.

Screenshot of the black Windows Vista Ultimate wallpaper

Speaking of cool, here’s a neat black “Windows Vista Ultimate” wallpaper I spotted during the video on the ASUS Lamborghini laptop’s screen. It has a green and blue flare set against a black aurora background which also happens to be the same design as the retail packaging box. I wonder where you can get it.

23 Responses

  1. Ryan says:

    Aww dude, you should have uploaded that background image to a flickr account. Damn that BG looks nice. And how sweet would that have been if it was a dreamscene BG.

  2. Ninian Yule says:

    That’s outrageous…is there no originality left in marketing anymore??!!

  3. That background is really nice – maybe it’ll be available at the end of January along with the ‘high street’ launch?

  4. mrmckeb says:

    @Ninian Yule

    When everything has been done, then how can you be original. Name one (or a few) completely original idea to have come out recently.

  5. azz0r says:

    Bah my comment got lost, someone posted them at Neowin, I have uploaded them to my forum for you.

    http://forums.wuggawoo.co.uk/index/thread/3371

  6. Jason Cox says:

    Thanks for posting those, azz0r!

  7. Tom says:

    The taskbar of the UMPC looks awesome!

  8. Chad Mirus says:

    I have the Zune theme now (lots of black and a little orange) and i love it, so that dark theme is perfect! Vista is trying to be “cool” like Mac OS X, so let them copy a little. Who cares!? O… Mac does…

  9. Tom Servo says:

    Stop posting these fake Windows Ultimate wallpapers. You need to be blind like a brick to not notice that they’re different.

  10. Ryan says:

    no one cares if its not official, it still looks nice

  11. Zim says:

    Interesting…
    I’ve tried to do something like that wallpaper… It’s not the same (and wasn’t intended to be exactly the same), but maybe somebody likes them:

    http://www.irken.com.ar/images/wvu_inspired.jpg

    http://www.irken.com.ar/images/wvu_inspired2.jpg

    Enjoy them =)

  12. azz0r says:

    Your saying mine are fake?

    Whatever, they were posted at neowin – I have no clue.

  13. Statix says:

    MAN MAN MAN! your awesome long! i was gonna ask you to put up this video but didnt think anyone would have captured it. and if they did it would be garbage cell phone vid quality. i have a vista presentation tommorow, and you couldnt have posted it earlier! u made my day!…

    thanks again.

  14. Long Zheng says:

    @Statix: It is available for download on the Microsoft website. http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/getready/wow.mspx

  15. Is there anyone with a digital picture of just the WOW poster? If so, can you post it?

  16. Statix says:

    Long…thanks again. Youtube doesnt work where im going to present…so the download is nice.

  17. Rob Stevens says:

    I don’t see that wallpaper on Microsoft’s site, LisKiller.

  18. Matt Sharpe says:

    Wonder if the actual official wallpaper is ever going to be released?

  19. amir says:

    send me new vista wallpaper by mail

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