{"id":666,"date":"2009-04-24T16:56:09","date_gmt":"2009-04-24T16:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/2009\/windows-7-discontinues-ultimate-extras\/"},"modified":"2009-04-24T17:14:13","modified_gmt":"2009-04-24T17:14:13","slug":"windows-7-discontinues-ultimate-extras","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/windows-7-discontinues-ultimate-extras\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows 7 Discontinues Ultimate Extras"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Users attempting to upgrade from Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate Edition to Windows 7 Build 7100 (the unofficial RC1 <span style=\"text-decoration:line-through\">release<\/span> leak), are greeted with the following &quot;compatibility warning&quot; dialog:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/discontinued.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/discontinued.png\" alt=\"Windows 7 has discontinued Vista&#039;s &quot;Ultimate Extras&quot;\" title=\"Ultimate Extras Discontinued\" width=\"659\" height=\"499\" class=\"size-full wp-image-669 colorbox-666\" srcset=\"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/discontinued.png 659w, https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/discontinued-396x300.png 396w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 659px) 100vw, 659px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Windows Vista Ultimate Edition&#8217;s &quot;Ultimate Extras&quot; have been a constant source of derision and anger from Vista users ever since its release 3 years ago. If the blog posts are to be believed, millions of users purchased Windows Vista Ultimate Edition in the hope that the added-value &quot;Ultimate Extras&quot; package &#8211; which was left un-described and of unknown worth at the time &#8211; would turn out to be a good investment.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Ultimate Extras are a couple of the minor Ultimate Edition exclusives that Microsoft used as a selling point to get users to purchase the most expensive version of Windows Vista. It was originally marketed as something similar to the ancient &quot;Plus! for Windows&quot; package that was quite popular back in the days of Windows 98; except it never really panned out that way. <\/p>\n<p>Ultimate Extras <a href=\"http:\/\/www.istartedsomething.com\/20070614\/windows-ultimate-extras-sham\/\" rel=\"follow\">was something of a hoax<\/a> for the first couple of years, bringing nothing more than animated wallpaper and extra cards game to the table. Since then a couple of new themes\/sounds have been added to the package along with a couple of other lame games &#8211; all of which made Vista users feel all the more &quot;tricked&quot; into purchasing a more expensive version of Windows that they, in all honesty, didn&#8217;t need.<\/p>\n<p>Well, it looks like Windows 7 will be doing away with the Ultimate Extras though it&#8217;s anyone&#8217;s guess what the final SKU lineup will look like and what the selling points and feature-sets of each of the editions will stack up to. But here&#8217;s to hoping that Microsoft learns from (even more) of its mistakes and provides something of real worth with the more expensive editions of its latest OS offering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Users attempting to upgrade from Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate Edition to Windows 7 Build 7100 (the unofficial RC1 release leak), are greeted with the following &quot;compatibility warning&quot; dialog: Windows Vista Ultimate Edition&#8217;s &quot;Ultimate Extras&quot; have been a constant source of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/windows-7-discontinues-ultimate-extras\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[22,901,449,4,620,312],"class_list":["post-666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software","tag-microsoft","tag-software","tag-ultimate-extras","tag-windows","tag-windows-7","tag-windows-vista"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xDa-aK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}