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[News] [Rival] Vista 'Ultimate' Offers Nothing After Over a Year

  • Subject: [News] [Rival] Vista 'Ultimate' Offers Nothing After Over a Year
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 23:26:10 +0000
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Freelance
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
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/

Windows Server was delayed, Home Server has been corrupting data and will
continue to do so until June _at the earliest_ and 'Ultimate' customers got
screwed also. The whole Vista DNA/family is a total fiasco wrapped in a PR
bubble.


Related:

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.   
| 
| 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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