Microsoft! we want more Ultimate extras!


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cuz they have provided extras so it would be thrown out

How so? all they would need to do is show Microsoft managers go on and on and on and on about the 'ultimate' version and the 'extra's' to demonstrate that Microsoft gave a clear indication that these extras were going to be very prominent.

And only a greedy company would misrepresent a feature to get more sales.

Done with the stupid statements?

NEway, it doesn't matter why people bought Vista Ultimate - all that matters is that Microsoft failed to deliver on one of the advertised features. It takes little effort to throw together a few extras, especially with the amount of projects that must be developed there. Even a couple of novelty sidebar gadgets and a collection of desktop wallpapers would be a start... HOW HARD IS THAT?! I can only assume they don't care, as any competent marketing team would try to remedy the situation.

They had plans but I guess it didnt work out so good, it happens. I dont hear that much about Sidebar and Sideshow even though more Sideshow devices are coming out. They are just extras, nothing special compared to what you are really getting.

I would love to see more games, some cool skins\themes , some cool tools for designing movies, making cds, some exclusive gadgets, a cool simple image and artwork editing suite, a simple HTML editor (all appropriate apps would have tools to upload and share with the most popular websites) basically everything that the plus packs were and more

Don't get your hopes up for more Ultimate Extras. Microsoft never made any extra skins or extras for XP back then and I don't think they will for Vista. Its been over 1 year now and we still haven't seen a single official Vista Powertoy. Microsoft is too busy with Windows 7. They don't have time to make Extras and skins.

Hopefully, with SP2, the available-at-gold extras will be right on the disc. It seems silly that you have to re-download the pre-SP1 ones even if you install a SP1-integrated disc.

How about a broad-purpose conversion tool? (like the clumsy DOC <-> DOCX utility they provide now as an download, but with dozens more formats available). This would be very useful for the user who is apt to have to send out files to the rest of the world, but doesn't necessarily want to buy a $300 app for a one-off export.

SSH client?

Notepad upgrade to the level of a typical programmer's editor? (at least let it understand both DOS and UNIX linebreaks!)

Attractive, integrated hardware monitoring utility?

Hopefully, with SP2, the available-at-gold extras will be right on the disc. It seems silly that you have to re-download the pre-SP1 ones even if you install a SP1-integrated disc.

How about a broad-purpose conversion tool? (like the clumsy DOC <-> DOCX utility they provide now as an download, but with dozens more formats available). This would be very useful for the user who is apt to have to send out files to the rest of the world, but doesn't necessarily want to buy a $300 app for a one-off export.

SSH client?

Notepad upgrade to the level of a typical programmer's editor? (at least let it understand both DOS and UNIX linebreaks!)

Attractive, integrated hardware monitoring utility?

An SSH client and better notepad would not be good anough to be called an extras since there are a lot of programs out there like that. I like to use putty and notepad++.

Don't get your hopes up for more Ultimate Extras. Microsoft never made any extra skins or extras for XP back then and I don't think they will for Vista. Its been over 1 year now and we still haven't seen a single official Vista Powertoy. Microsoft is too busy with Windows 7. They don't have time to make Extras and skins.
PowerToys are not Ultimate Extras. If you look up Plus! on Wikipedia, there's a reference there to the notion that Plus became Extras. Perhaps that's the comparison you're looking for. :)

If you want to have a discussion of PowerToys and how they don't exist in Vista, that's one conversation. If you want to have a conversation about Ultimate Extras, that's another. If you want to mix those too, you're not going to get anywhere useful, sorry. :)

I think both ideas are cool ones and am merely trying to helpfully ensure that your passions are properly directed. If you want to rail about the lack of powertoys, do that within a PowerToys conversation. Doing it within an Ultimate Extras conversation is the wrong venue. :)

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Guys wadda you think of this..

We want more ultimate extras!!

- We want skins!

- More dreamscene wallpapers!

- Log-on screens!

- Gadgets!

Damn i'm starting to think that extras isn't that "extra" for Windows Vista

You can ask all you want but they won't bother. It seems they release a product and never support it. Look at XP. They never made a single extra skin for it. Vista it's been out for almost 2 years now and they haven't bothered to give us any new skins for it. No new DVD templates for DVD maker, no Tweak UI so I seriously doubt they will bother to offer any new Ultimate Extras.

You all can sit there and wait all you want. Microsoft is never going to release any Extras for Ultimate. They are too busy working on Windows 7 right now and if they wanted to release Extras for Ultimate, they would have done so already. Its been almost a year and a half since Vista was released and we haven't seen a single PowerToy for Vista.

^-- How did your last prediction work out? I find it interesting that you quote someone asking for more DreamScene wallpapers, which actually came out after he asked for them, and then say "they won't bother". O_o :)

"Skins" are a non-trivial matter that wouldn't fly at all (it'd be a hack or otherwise not appropriate for an Extra).

As far as I'm aware, PowerToys are not and have never been Ultimate Extras.

how about the next ultimate extra we get is a full or upgrade version of windows 7 half off or even cheaper. Would be nice of them for ripping us. I bought ultimate because I thought dreamscene was so cool at the time and I believed it was only an indicator of the awesomeness to come. What a shame :(

I was going to say this exact same thing. Giving the ultimate users a bonus incentive to upgrade to Windows 7 would really push users from Vista to 7 faster.

I'm sure lots of ultimate users would choose a non-Ultimate version, if they knew about this earlier

(and wonder why no one sueing yet lol)

As many others have said, I didn't get Vista for the Ultimate Extras anyways. I got it because it sounds cool, has features that's nice to know it's there but I would never use, and costs an extra 30 bucks :p

You can ask all you want but they won't bother. It seems they release a product and never support it. Look at XP. They never made a single extra skin for it. Vista it's been out for almost 2 years now and they haven't bothered to give us any new skins for it. No new DVD templates for DVD maker, no Tweak UI so I seriously doubt they will bother to offer any new Ultimate Extras.

Uh, XP got at least 2 new skins that I can think of off the top of my head: Royale and Zune.

Don't get your hopes up for more Ultimate Extras. Microsoft never made any extra skins or extras for XP back then and I don't think they will for Vista. Its been over 1 year now and we still haven't seen a single official Vista Powertoy. Microsoft is too busy with Windows 7. They don't have time to make Extras and skins.

Too busy doing what? Pursuing the Live Search unicorn?? Courting that failure Yahoo so they could turn around and challenge Google??

What were they busy doing from November, 2002 to January 30, 2007?

Ballmer said some nonsense during that embarrassing keynote about all the R&D they're committed to doing. Where is it??

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