Microsoft Dumps Ultimate Extras from Windows 7
Microsoft's development team is focused on building the next release and their sustained engineering team is focused on updates to existing features. As a result they don't plan to create Ultimate Extras.
Microsoft announced that their new approcach to planning and building Windows doesn't have the capacity to continue to deliver features outside the regular release cycle. While their core development team is focused on building the next release, their sustained engineering team is focused on updates to existing features. As a result they don't plan to create Ultimate Extras.
The company will deliver a Windows 7 Ultimate edition as part of the new operating system release, but no details on the version's feature lists were spelled out.
Ultimate Extras was among the elements Microsoft cited in the months leading up to the early-2007 release of Windows Vista Ultimate to distinguish it from lower-priced versions. According to Microsoft's marketing, Extras was to be "cutting-edge programs, innovative services, and unique publications" that would be regularly offered only to users of Vista's highest-priced edition.
But users blasted Microsoft for the paltry number of add-ons it released, and its leisurely development pace. Just five months after Vista launched, critics started to complain , which led Microsoft to promise it would do better.
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