Windows Ultimate Extras

Windows Ultimate Extras were optional features offered by Microsoft to users of the Ultimate edition of Windows Vista and are accessible via Windows Update. Ultimate Extras replaced the market role of Microsoft Plus!, a product sold for prior consumer releases of Microsoft Windows.[1] According to Microsoft's Barry Goffe, the company's goal with Ultimate Extras was to delight customers who purchased the Ultimate edition of Windows Vista, the most expensive retail edition of the operating system.[2]

Windows Ultimate Extras have been discontinued as of Windows 7 without a successor planned[3] and the operating system also removes all installed extras during an upgrade from Windows Vista Ultimate.[4][5]

  1. ^ Paul Thurrott (October 6, 2010). "Windows Ultimate Extras Review". Supersite for Windows. Penton. Archived from the original on December 28, 2016. Retrieved May 28, 2015.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  2. ^ Bishop, Todd (March 23, 2008). "Software Notebook: Microsoft's Ultimate Extras overhyped, users underwhelmed". Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Hearst Corporation. Retrieved May 26, 2015.
  3. ^ Protalinski, Emil (February 6, 2009). "Microsoft: No Ultimate Extras for Windows 7". Ars Technica. Condé Nast. Archived from the original on October 4, 2023. Retrieved May 26, 2015.
  4. ^ Paul Thurrott (February 10, 2009). "No Ultimate Extras in Windows 7. But wait, it gets worse". Supersite for Windows. Penton. Archived from the original on December 28, 2016. Retrieved May 26, 2015.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  5. ^ Oiaga, Marius (February 11, 2009). "Windows 7 Kills Ultimate Extras, Even Vista's". Softpedia. SoftNews NET SRL. Archived from the original on June 15, 2015. Retrieved May 26, 2015.