[Osiris]

Windows users who shelled out extra to get the top-of-the-line [COLOR=blue! important][COLOR=blue! important]Vista[/COLOR][/COLOR] Ultimate SKU, your requests for an update have been answered. Microsoft hasn't abandoned its promise to get more of the expected downloadable add-ons to Ultimate to you after all!

[COLOR=blue! important][COLOR=blue! important]Microsoft[/COLOR][/COLOR] posted an update on the whereabouts to the Vista Team Blog on July 2:

"The (Ultimate Extras) team recognizes that they've been dark for some time on the topic of Ultimate Extras, but want to go on record that they plan to deliver pending DreamScene and Language Pack Extras by summer's end, and expect to disclose a schedule of further Extras releases after that milestone" blogged Vista Product Manager Nick White.

What these 'further Extras' may include is sadly still unknown...

News Source: ZDNet Microsoft Blog

[maroon1]

DailyTech - Microsoft Readying Vista SP1 Beta for mid-July

[vernong1992]

Originally Posted by maroon1

DailyTech - Microsoft Readying Vista SP1 Beta for mid-July

sweet... but i hope they don't fix that activation crack.......... rofl lmao... i don't want them spying on my gaming activities or my video watching, wink wink :0

[Invisible]

they have a way of doing that? uh oh :0

[DarkMassacre]

What's this activation crack of which you speak?

[Mak213]

The paradox BIOS crack. From what i know they have fixed that with SP1.

[vernong1992]

Originally Posted by DarkMassacre

What's this activation crack of which you speak?

u know how u can not put a activation key and install any version of vista u want for a 15 days grace period, ppl have cracked it to run forever

[DarkMassacre]

Sounds interesting. I wouldn't be surprised if someone found another way to do it if it indeed gets fixed.

[Osiris]

I predicted [COLOR=blue! important][COLOR=blue! important]Microsoft[/COLOR][/COLOR] would hit the 60-million-copies-sold mark with Windows Vista around July 1. On July 26, at its annual Financial Analyst Meeting (FAM), Microsoft officials acknowledged the company has hit that milestone.

At the end of the fist 100 days of sales, at the start of May, Microsoft said it had sold 40 million copies of its client operating system.

With [COLOR=blue! important][COLOR=blue! important]Vista[/COLOR][/COLOR], "We've eclipsed the entire Apple installed base in the first five months of sales," Kevin Turner, Microsoft's Chief Operating Officer, told attendees of FAM.

Turner shared other new Vista statistics on July 26, including:
▪ 2.1 million devices now work with Vista
▪ More than 11,000 Vista-logo'd devices are now on the market
▪ 2,000 applications now have earned the Windows Vista logos
▪ More than 70 business-focused [COLOR=blue! important][COLOR=blue! important]enterprise [COLOR=blue! important]applications[/COLOR][/COLOR][/COLOR] have been made Vista-compatible since the product launched in late January
▪ More than 42 million Vista seats are now covered under volume licensing deals. (However, "Windows Volume Licensing [COLOR=blue! important][COLOR=blue! important]annuity[/COLOR][/COLOR] penetration" is only at 19 percent currently, Turner admitted. Microsoft is pushing hard to grow this number, he said.)
▪ Over the next three years, Microsoft expects more than half of [COLOR=blue! important][COLOR=blue! important]Windows [COLOR=blue! important]PC[/COLOR][/COLOR][/COLOR] unit growth to come from emerging markets.

There's been a lot of negative press around Vista in mainstream media and [COLOR=blue! important][COLOR=blue! important]blogs[/COLOR][/COLOR], as of late. Microsoft is well aware it needs to pull out the stops to counter perceptions that the product has been a flop.

News Source: ZDNet Microsoft Blog

[krazyq]

are you even allowed to post on this forum that you cracked vista?
isnt that illegal?