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Microsoft Kills Ultimate Extras

Published in Windows 7 News by Steve Sinchak with 3,941 views

According to Microsoft there will be no Ultimate Extras in Windows 7 Ultimate edition.  The controversial extras program was designed to be a value added benefit to buying Windows Vista Ultimate Edition.  Power toys, games and more were promised but few were ever delivered.

It appears Microsoft leaned a lesson with the Windows Vista Ultimate Extras program and issued this statement to the WinSuperSite:

Our new approach to planning and building Windows doesn't have the capacity to continue to deliver features outside the regular release cycle. While our core development team is focused on building the next release, our sustained engineering team is focused on updates to existing features. As a result, we don't plan to create Ultimate Extras

Hopefully Microsoft will return to delivering various PowerToys as they did with Windows XP that work on all versions of Windows.

 
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