http://www.geektieguy.com/2009/06/26/windows-vista-ultimate-customers-get-the-shaft-again/ News and views from the geek tie guy. Fri, 16 Jul 2010 17:24:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://www.geektieguy.com/2009/06/26/windows-vista-ultimate-customers-get-the-shaft-again/comment-page-1/#comment-40682 Jeff Sun, 28 Jun 2009 08:55:23 +0000 http://www.geektieguy.com/2009/06/26/windows-vista-ultimate-customers-get-the-shaft-again/#comment-40682 As a Vista Ultimate User, I've been disapointed twice. I need the language packs and went with Vista Ultimate despite the premium pricing 2 years back. The so called "ultimate extras" turned out to be a buch of screensavers and other useless junk and then in the middle of the night, MSFT left town. It seems the Ultiamate team disbanded, website was gone, and there were in fact no "ultimate extras." Talk about bait and switch and decpetive marketing. So fast toward two years later, Vista Ultimate users -- the people who got shafted the most-- in the Vista debacle are being asked to pay over $200 for an upgrade to something less bogged down than Vista. Why is it that Vista Ultimate uers have to subsidize the discounts to the lower tier Windows 7 versions? Effectively, that is what is happening. MSFT doesnt know anything about rewarding loyalty, making good on something done bad to its customers, and continues to engage in deceptice practices. Are there any class action lawyers in the house that want to take MSFT to task? I would like the punishment to be chaining Ballmer and Gates to a Vista PC until they leave the industry or until Apple takes leading market share. As a Vista Ultimate User, I’ve been disapointed twice. I need the language packs and went with Vista Ultimate despite the premium pricing 2 years back. The so called “ultimate extras” turned out to be a buch of screensavers and other useless junk and then in the middle of the night, MSFT left town. It seems the Ultiamate team disbanded, website was gone, and there were in fact no “ultimate extras.” Talk about bait and switch and decpetive marketing. So fast toward two years later, Vista Ultimate users — the people who got shafted the most– in the Vista debacle are being asked to pay over $200 for an upgrade to something less bogged down than Vista. Why is it that Vista Ultimate uers have to subsidize the discounts to the lower tier Windows 7 versions? Effectively, that is what is happening. MSFT doesnt know anything about rewarding loyalty, making good on something done bad to its customers, and continues to engage in deceptice practices. Are there any class action lawyers in the house that want to take MSFT to task? I would like the punishment to be chaining Ballmer and Gates to a Vista PC until they leave the industry or until Apple takes leading market share.

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