Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 25th Sep 2007 12:28 UTC, submitted by stonyandcher
Critics who blasted Microsoft three months ago for failing to deliver Windows Vista add-ons have again called the company on the carpet, this time for missing its self-imposed deadline to provide promised extras. In late June, bloggers and users were already panning Vista Ultimate Extras as a bust. Extras, available only to customers running the top-end Vista edition, was one of the features cited by Microsoft to distinguish the USD 399 operating system from its USD 239 cousin, Home Premium. Microsoft's online marketing, for instance, touted Extras as 'cutting-edge programs, innovative services, and unique publications' that would be regularly offered to Ultimate users.
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2006-12-28
...but not really all that surprised and hardly able to complain.
Vista Ultimate is the first version of Windows I have bought, ever, so I can hardly start complaining to Microsoft about delivering the goods, seeming how I have spend many years using they're operating systems without paying them a dime.
What I find lacking in common courtesy is MS not providing for all they're long standing customers and enthusiasts who have been buying Windows for years. Ultimate is targeted at the serious enthusiast, yet MS has failed to deliver. When the enthusiast get disappointed, platform evangelism tends to get curbed.
As far as I'm concerned, as long as they make good with SP1 and deal with the stability and performance kinks, then I can wait a while longer for the Extras.