After a week on the road, I'm catching up on a few interesting news items I missed this past week. One of them involves Microsoft's Vista Ultimate. Microsoft has caught hell -- as it deserved to -- ...

Back in September of last year I wrote a piece about how the Windows Ultimate Extras window from the RTM version of Windows Vista differed from the pre-release SP1 code that was floating about at the ...

Critics who blasted Microsoft three months ago for failing to deliver Windows Vista add-ons have again called the company on the carpet, this time for missing its self-imposed deadline to provide ...

It looks like the Ultimate Extras which started with Vista will end with Vista. That's right, Microsoft says no to Ultimate Extras in Windows 7 Ultimate.<BR><BR><a ...

The only four Ultimate Extras promised are for a poker game (Hold ’em), BitLocker enhancements to store passwords online at the Windows Marketplace and to prepare the BitLocker drive, a set of ...

Also, there were supposed to be Ultimate Extras for Vista that never really materialized, and with no plans for Ultimate Extras in 7, I just don't see a reason to spend the extra money. VHD could be ...