Windows Ultimate Extras is a sham - where’s the responsibility?
If the big M can't get it right...why are you still selling deskscapes?
Saturday, June 16, 2007 by jedibdawg | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
Frustrated by the lack of new content for "Ultimate Extras", I did a little searching today and this is what I found, among other things. http://www.istartedsomething.com/20070614/windows-ultimate-extras-sham/
My question is this. Why are you still selling Deskscapes and promoting dreams? Apparently Dreamscenes won't run on right to left language computers and probably will never run, therefore Dreamscenes will be stuck in a perpetual beta state, because microsoft thinks it would be discriminatory to release and support an english only version.
Lets face it folks we all got taken for a ride on this one, including stardock !
If anyone has any constructive insight on this matter I would like to hear it. I am not looking to get flamed so please don't bother. I feel actions speak louder than words and microsoft has failed to deliver "big time".
It should also be interesting to see how long this post stays up. I would say that should be a good indicator of the current stat of affairs with "reamscene"
My question is this. Why are you still selling Deskscapes and promoting dreams? Apparently Dreamscenes won't run on right to left language computers and probably will never run, therefore Dreamscenes will be stuck in a perpetual beta state, because microsoft thinks it would be discriminatory to release and support an english only version.
Lets face it folks we all got taken for a ride on this one, including stardock !
If anyone has any constructive insight on this matter I would like to hear it. I am not looking to get flamed so please don't bother. I feel actions speak louder than words and microsoft has failed to deliver "big time".
It should also be interesting to see how long this post stays up. I would say that should be a good indicator of the current stat of affairs with "reamscene"
Frogboy
Reply #4 Tuesday, June 19, 2007 10:34 PM
Reply #4 Tuesday, June 19, 2007 10:34 PM
Couple of things.
First, DeskScapes is free so there's nothing to "sell". Now, if DeskScapes were made available for all versions of Vista, that might be a different story but DeskScapes is free.
Secondly, the author of that article is speculating about DreamScenes on other foreign language computers. Personally, that makes no sense to me. Windows DreamScene allows the desktop background to be a video. There's nothing language specific about that.
If I had to speculate, I would say that Microsoft is probably waiting for video drivers to get updated further.
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Reply #1 Saturday, June 16, 2007 6:51 PM
No, wait, I got a real good life going here. Guess lam not pissed at all. But I do feel your pain jedibdawg. Let life be your lesson.