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The Clock Is Ticking On Ultimate Extras

It was little over a month ago now that Barry Goffe, Director of Windows Vista Ultimate, shared with us that Microsoft intended to SHIP, which I took to mean the final version, by the end of summer the DreamScene Ultimate Extra and its 20 remaining language packs. 

We are now a little more than a month away from the Official end of summer (Sept 21st) that they had promised to ship these to us by. That doesn't leave them much time for testing if they plan to send an updated version out for people to test, which I would assume they would.

I don't know about you, but I am slowly losing faith we will see them this summer.  What do you think, will they really ship this summer?

So if they fail does everyone running ultimate, that paid for it, get a partial refund?  Seems only fair to me...you were sold a bill of goods that Microsoft hasn't delivered on.

Posted Aug 13 2007, 12:22 PM by Josh Phillips
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Anonymous wrote re: The Clock Is Ticking On Ultimate Extras
on 08-13-2007 2:43 PM

Microsoft has a ton of cash…  Shoddy Xbox?  No problem.  We’ll take a billion dollar charge and extend the warranty by three years.

I’m sure there might be a couple of attorneys looking to profit on a class action suit on Ultimate Extras.

Nick wrote re: The Clock Is Ticking On Ultimate Extras
on 08-13-2007 4:10 PM

I want a partial refund, mind I use ultimate for a Active Directory, so it covers some of the cost of ultimate

William Dowell wrote re: The Clock Is Ticking On Ultimate Extras
on 08-14-2007 12:50 AM

I don't want a refund - i just want some ****ing extras!! I am still waiting for teh discription in Windows Vista of Ulimate Extras to be fulfilled.. I'm a Microosft fan, but this is the first time i've been really annoyed!

Josh Phillips wrote re: The Clock Is Ticking On Ultimate Extras
on 08-14-2007 6:13 AM

Yeah, But agree with Anonymous I bet we will see a class action suit against them if they continue to fail to deliver.  A three strike rule maybe?

sscott wrote re: The Clock Is Ticking On Ultimate Extras
on 08-14-2007 8:19 AM

Yeah, a class action suit wouldn't surprise me either, but I also wouldn't doubt the cost of it will be passed on to the consumer in one form or another.

Josh Phillips wrote re: The Clock Is Ticking On Ultimate Extras
on 08-14-2007 11:57 AM

Passed on? What a 10 dollar coupon good only for Microsoft software??

Microsoft blog wrote re: The Clock Is Ticking On Ultimate Extras
on 08-18-2007 7:48 PM

Great post: You just saved my day! :)

thanks

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Josh's Windows Weblog wrote Where are the Extras?
on 08-29-2007 6:11 PM

Some people may have noticed that the Windows Ultimate Extra Language packs went missing over the weekend

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