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I see that I haven’t spared any pixels for MSN Soapbox, Microsoft’s YouTube clone, since it shut down temporarily in March due to the presence of the same copyright infringement problems that had Microsoft tut-tutting about YouTube. Apparently, Soapbox relaunched in April to little fanfare and ambled along in closed beta as before.
As if Microsoft’s Windows Vista didn’t have enough bad PR to contend with already, there’s the continuing embarrassment of the missing Vista Ultimate Extras. You may recall that the Extras are supposed to be “free programs, services, and related content” that you only get if you kick in for the pricey Ultimate Edition of Vista. The problem is that they seem to be mostly vaporware.
Microsoft volume license customers traditionally get downgrade rights - the ability to load an earlier version of Microsoft software on a system if they licensed a later version - and it is frequently used by larger enterprises to maintain uniform software versions for improved manageability. OEMs get similar rights for some Microsoft operating systems including Windows Vista Business and Ultimate (see the January 2007 Download Rights Chart from the Microsoft Volume Licensing page) to enable better service for larger customers. However, it is unusual for OEMS to, as a matter of course, include a copy of an earlier operating system system in the retail box as some major OEMs such as Fujitsu and HP have started doing for Vista machines. So what changed?
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