Vista Ultimate users fume, rant over Windows 7 deals
Consumers running Windows Vista Ultimate, who have blasted Microsoft for breaking promises to deliver a host of extras, are now knocking the company's upgrade plans and discount pricing for Windows 7.
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Either way you look at it Microsoft Data Center management did not follow standards or best practices in this failure. In which case it makes me wonder more about the outsourcing of corporate data much less personal data.
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Maybe this will create a shift to mac for unhappy microsoft users.re: >mac
Or you are smoking crack one. The shift to Apple over the Vista fiasco was less then 3 percent of the market.Why Ultimate is so expensive
You have the ability to join a domain. Thats it. If you are that very select few who run a domain and need to have vista premium features on your domian (media center), Vista Ultimate does that. The rest of you who thought you were getting something special got sauced.vista ultimate victim
I too thought i would get "extras" with my windows vista ultimate. the only thing i got out of it was a lighter wallet. They could have at least sent some vasiline to make me getting screwed less painful!