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Energy Blue is a GUI Art concept produced by Microsoft and introduced in 2004 directed for Windows Media Center desktops and Windows XP Tablet PC Edition Tablet PC s. It is composed of a new Wallpaper (inspired by Windows XP Bliss ), a Desktop Theme and Skins . The concept presents brilliant and relucent Blue and Green colors. AVAILABILITY The Energy Blue theme was made available in December 2004 and is available for everyone. However, it has a limitation that can only be installed on a 2005 , Microsoft New Zealand made the visual style available to the general public from this page , along with some other related resources. (It now appears to be removed from the list of available items to download, at least for some users.) The theme Royale, which is designed for Windows XP, is very similar; the shell-style is slightly different. The wallpapers for the New Zealand theme are available for download through Windows Genuine Advantage on the Microsoft website . All Energy Blue resources were incorporated in Windows Media Center 2005 edition. Due to the introduction of the Aero Glass interface design in Windows Vista , it is unlikely that this theme will be incorporated in future Windows versions. APPEARANCE Also known as ''Royale'' or ''Media Center style'', the new theme is a redesign of the original ''Luna'' with the brilliant and relucent concept. It features a mix of dark blue colors combined with the new wallpaper. The new ''Energy Bliss'' wallpaper is heavily inspired by the original Bliss but now is generated artificially with Computer Graphics (CG) Rendering . It features a vivid, faux-reflective color scheme with intense blues and greens. Microsoft released a for Windows CE devices. It is also possible to Hack the Cabinet s and get it running for Windows XP . The skins, like all msstyles skins, use CSS for layout. ROYALE NOIR / ZUNE THEME The Royale Noir and Royale Zune themes are two similar themes released by Microsoft that appear to be based on the Energy Blue theme. Both look like darkened versions of Energy Blue. The Zune theme was the first to include a different colour start button other than the green XP one or the original grey one from the Classic theme. Royale Noir was not finalized by Microsoft until it was released as a new desktop theme to accompany the release of its new Zune media player. Each theme has a slightly different colour scheme. For example, Noir has a black start button and Zune has an orange start button. Presumably Noir was a Beta version of the Zune theme. The initial release of the Zune theme had a problem with file allocation in its shell theme which resulted in a false colouring in the task pane on the left hand side of Windows Explorer . Royale Noir doesn't suffer from this problem. This issue has apparently been resolved in later distributions of the theme. SEE ALSO EXTERNAL LINKS
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