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Re: Microsoft quietly removes Ultimate Extras from Windows 7

Marti van Lin wrote:
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>> Terry Porter on Wednesday:
>> 
>>> Time to swap that cutesy battery-powered vintage-style
>>> robot for a penguin ?
>>> 
>>> begin{quote}
>>> by David M Williams
>>> Wednesday, 26 August 2009
>>> One selling point of Windows Vista Ultimate Edition was
>>> its inclusion of Ultimate Extras, a special "members only"
>>> club of downloads incorporated into Windows Update. As of
>>> Windows 7 it's no more - and the club wants its goodies
>>> back. ...
>>> end{quote}
>>> http://www.itwire.com/content/view/27222/53/
>> 
>> It's falling apart faster than Vista ever did.
> 
> That's not so surprising, because IMO it's even worst than
> Vista (especially networking).
> 
> According to my friend Jim, the extras for Vista Ultimate
> where never delivered, aside from some extra screen saver and
> some useless function (which according to Jim was not even
> worth mentioning).
> 
> According to Jim, Vista Ultimate users have simply been fooled
> by Microsoft, they never received what they have paid for.
> 
> Now he expects Microsoft to provide a gratis update to Win7 to
> Vista Ultimate users.
> 
> I told him: forget it mate, it ain't gonna' 'appen ;-)

So much for the WOW!  :-)

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HPT

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