Software Notebook: Microsoft's Ultimate Extras overhyped, users underwhelmed
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| A Microsoft plan to reward some of its most enthusiastic Windows users has
| instead frustrated them by falling short of its promise. The company
| acknowledges the problem, says it ran into unexpected complications and vows
| to make things right.
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http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/356127_software24.html?source=mypi
The company now admits it. It took over a year for them to admit XBox360 is
inherently broken (and charge billions for it).
Microsoft has more burning issues than offering 'extras'. Vista's first SP is
ruining PCs, Home Server corrupts data, applications and incompatible
and "critical" patches keep coming to Vista.
Related:
Is Microsoft’s newest ‘Ultimate Extra’ of UltimatePC.com the ultimate insult?
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| Stung by bad publicity over the lack of a whole swag of ‘Ultimate Extras’ for
| users of Windows Vista Ultimate, Microsoft has launched a beta version of
| the ‘UltimatePC.com’ site. Designed to extol the benefits of the existing
| Ultimate Extras and offer ‘Ultimate Exclusive’ offers to Vista Ultimate
| users, the site is little more than an ad, and for now, a waste of
| cyberspace.
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/17143/1105/
What has happened to Vista's promised Ultimate Extras?
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| Vista Ultimate Extras, available only to customers running the top-end Vista
| edition, was one of the features cited by Microsoft to distinguish the £320
| Vista Ultimate from its £185 cousin, Vista Home Premium.
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http://www.computerworlduk.com/technology/operating-systems/windows/news/index.cfm?newsid=5344
Microsoft Admits they have Failed Vista Ultimate Users
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| "I'm as frustrated as you are by this experience and while we've essentially
| failed our Ultimate customers to date, we're working hard to exceed their
| expectations in the long run." said Nick White a Microsoft product manager
| and blogger.
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http://www.hardwaregeeks.com/comments.php?shownews=4552
Vista Ultimate users will have to wait for “extras”
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| Tomorrow is the beginning of the fall and end of summer 2007. That means time
| is running out for Microsoft’s promise to release new extras to Vista
| Ultimate users.
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http://zmolklife.com/ejoh/2007/09/21/vista-ultimate-users-will-have-to-wait-for-extras/
The Death of Windows Vista Extras
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| The bottom line is that the Ultimate Extras team has gone underground.
| Microsoft cannot expect Ultimate users to survive on a preview of Windows
| DreamScene with an outdated Content Pack and two Windows Vista wallpapers.
| For $399, Microsoft has to cough up palpable results.
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| But so far, all is dead on the Ultimate Extras front. Even the blog went
| quiet after mid March, and I have a feeling that silence from the Ultimate
| Extras team is not what Ultimate users want to "hear."
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http://news.softpedia.com/news/The-Death-of-Windows-Vista-Extras-57300.shtml
Nine burning questions about how Vista is really doing
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| Instead, there's so much spin -- from Microsoft, from rivals such
| as Apple Inc., from market analysts pushing research and more research
| -- it would even leave Sasha Cohen dizzy. Here's our attempt to unravel
| this puzzle-shrinkwrapped-in-a-mystery.
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http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9021838
http://tinyurl.com/2u6gzq
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