Comments on: The Ultimate con

By: JiJi3_0000

JiJi3_0000 — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 05:47:50 +0000

im using vista ultimate but why cannot running window dreamscene?? i try 2 update window dreamscene but disconnect..cannot upgrades..

By: Vista Ultimate - a Microsoft black eye — Shooting at Bubbles

Vista Ultimate - a Microsoft black eye — Shooting at Bubbles — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 00:15:05 +0000

[...] pointed out by Long Zheng today the previously announced deadline for the release of the Vista language packs and an improved [...]

By: RamrodsWorld » Three free extras added to Vista Ultimate

RamrodsWorld » Three free extras added to Vista Ultimate — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 21:25:40 +0000

[...] Extras for more than a year. In June 2007, for example, bloggers such as Long Zheng, who writes iStartedSomething, and Josh Phillips, author of WindowsConnected, blasted the company for releasing only a small [...]

By: Fanboy_Killa

Fanboy_Killa — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 22:27:49 +0000

Here’s how it works, Ed H:

Mac OS ships installed. It’s price is part of the (high) cost of the system. What you buy afterwards are called “upgrades”.

Now, take a look at the “upgrade” pricing for Vista, XP, etc…

Then FOAD.

Thanks.

By: shaun

shaun — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 02:19:34 +0000

It seems that most of you are forgetting the biggest difference between vista ultimate, and other versions has nothing to do with ultimate extras or any other user interface garbage. The reality is quite simple for an IT professional like myself. I want be able to run media centre and connect to my xbox360, a fairly normal practice, so home premium would suffice, but I can’t connect to my windows server domain. If I use vista business, I can connect to my domain, but alas, no media centre. This is where ULTIMATE comes in. It has both the workstation components, and the home components bundled together so that IT professionals don’t need to own 2 copies of vista, one for media centre/games and one for connecting to a domain.

By: CQuirke

CQuirke — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 08:35:09 +0000

I suspect what has happened is something like this…

“Hey, those PowerToys may have been unsupported, but they’ve been really popular! Can’t we position them as an Ultimate value-add?”

…followed by…

“Sorry team, getting SP1 and Server 2008 out the door has to be our first priority. You can get back to developing toys after that’s done.”

By: Ed H

Ed H — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 18:48:25 +0000

Here’s a thought. Offer one single version, with everything included, at a reasonable price, like Apple does. It’s so crazy, it just might work.

By: bleeper

bleeper — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 16:49:11 +0000

GOOD NEWS EVERYONE!

Innovative new services and cutting edge program slated to appear soon!

Look for Yahoo – coming soon to Windows Ultimate Extras!

And you thought Microsoft didn’t care…

By: Hardware 2.0 mobile edition

Hardware 2.0 mobile edition — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 11:37:19 +0000

[...] tip to Long Zheng for initially drawing my attention to this issue in the [...]

By: dba61

dba61 — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 05:07:41 +0000

This type of deception is nothing ne to Microsoft. The always make statements and promises like this but never uphold them. Microsoft should be forced to pay a $200 penately to all registered users of Vista Ultimate; this would only be fair, after all thousands spent extra money on this version just to find out that is was just a hoax.