{"id":365,"date":"2008-10-08T16:57:44","date_gmt":"2008-10-08T16:57:44","guid":{"rendered":"\/blogs\/news\/archive\/2008\/10\/08\/windows-vista-feature-focus-windows-ultimate-extras.aspx"},"modified":"2008-10-08T16:57:44","modified_gmt":"2008-10-08T16:57:44","slug":"windows-vista-feature-focus-windows-ultimate-extras","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/?p=365","title":{"rendered":"Windows Vista Feature Focus: Windows Ultimate Extras"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Never has such a good idea been so badly bungled. Microsoft originally envisioned Windows Ultimate Extras as one of many differentiators for its high-end Windows Vista Ultimate edition. Of course, back in mid-2005, when these plans were unfolding, Microsoft was still struggling to define the various Vista product editions. It planned a Small Business edition, for example, but ultimately decided against it. And for Windows Vista Ultimate, Microsoft originally planned to include a number of features that never came to fruition, including a Game Performance Tweaker, a podcast creation utility, online &#8220;Club&#8221; services, extended A1 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.winsupersite.com\/showcase\/winvista_ff_extras.asp#\">subscriptions<\/a>, free music downloads, free movie downloads, Online Spotlight and entertainment software, preferred product support, and custom themes. (I first revealed these plans in my September 2005 article, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.winsupersite.com\/showcase\/winvista_editions.asp\">Windows Vista Product Editions Preview<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>Full Article &#8211; <a title=\"http:\/\/www.winsupersite.com\/showcase\/winvista_ff_extras.asp\" href=\"http:\/\/www.winsupersite.com\/showcase\/winvista_ff_extras.asp\">http:\/\/www.winsupersite.com\/showcase\/winvista_ff_extras.asp<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Never has such a good idea been so badly bungled. Microsoft originally envisioned Windows Ultimate Extras as one of many differentiators for its high-end Windows Vista Ultimate edition. Of course, back in mid-2005, when these plans were unfolding, Microsoft was still struggling to define the various Vista product editions. It planned a Small Business edition, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[338],"class_list":["post-365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}