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Microsoft launching Vista Plus! Pack
by Brad Linder Jan 16th 2008 at 12:00PM
Once upon a time Microsoft came up with a product called Microsoft Plus! that offered a handful of games and extra features that probably should have been included with Windows in the first place. There were Plus! packs released for every version of Windows from Windows 95 all the way up to XP. Plus! packs included everything from the first version of Internet Explorer to desktop themes and utilities for managing media files.But when Microsoft launched Windows Vista, we thought they had killed off the Plus! pack in favor of Windows Ultimate Extras. But now it looks like Microsoft is bringing back the Plus! Pack.
Some folks in the WinBeta forums noticed a listing for a Windows Vista Plus! Pack at Canada's Future Shop. It looks like the new version of Vista Plus! Pack will include a few games but no Windows enhancements. The product description isn't very useful, since it appears to display just a few features of Windows Vista, not the Plus! Pack itself.
The Future Shop lists the product as available for shipping on February 15th for $40 Canadian, which these days is about the same as $40 US.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
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Eric said 1:46PM on 1-16-2008
Plus! Pack should have been killed off because of "Windows Ultimate Extras". I have Ultimate on two systems, a laptop and desktop. The only two features of Ultimate that are of any use are Bitlocker on my laptop and dynamic drive support on my desktop. I tried dreamscene, but it constantly disabled itself leaving me with nothing but a blank background half the time. Even if you like dreamscene just wait a little while for Stardock to realease their much better add-on that has been modified to work on non-Ultimate versions of Vista. So, ok Microsoft you want to release Plus! Pack feel free, just do the consumer a favor and change the marketing materials to read Vista Ultimate including "Windows Ultimate Extra"
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James said 3:20PM on 1-16-2008
Does anyone else find it odd that the ONLY site that makes any mention of such a thing existing is Futureshop and they have taken the page down...I call shennanigans.
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kojo87 said 6:11PM on 1-16-2008
i thought they were just gonna release Ultimate Extras. the last thing i downloaded as an "Extra" was Texas Hold'em (that i never played once) that was last May or something. i want moar!
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Art Folden said 5:40PM on 1-18-2008
In fact, as of today Jan 18th at 127 PM Pacific time, the Future Shop page and offer is still available:
http://www.futureshop.ca/catalog/proddetail.asp?logon=L&langid=EN&sku_id=0665000FS10097054&catid=10657
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