Windows Vista Team Blog : It’s time!

http://blogs.msdn.com/brada/archive/2005/01/14/352967.aspx

One less excuse not to write a managed application.

Doesn't anybody know about the "system colors" availabe in IE?  http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/author/dhtml/reference/colors/colors.asp

Lots of sites (including spaces.msn.com) let you pick a color scheme (or even something more elaborate).  The problem is that a color scheme that looks integrated for me (I use the default "blue" XP color schme), may not look so nice if you use "Olive Green" or "Silver".  I'd like a "System" color scheme which would use the IE system colors instead of fixed values.

I supose that the system colors were added to IE to allow HTAs (HTML Applications) to look like real Windows applications.  But HTAs have pretty much lost whatever popularity they once had; WinForms is so much easier.  And of course, system colors wouldn't work in Opera or FireFox.