Windows 7 Family Pack Deal Making a Comeback
Upgrade your family of computers.
Family pack licenses for operating systems are an excellent way for families (and friends) to all get upgraded to the latest software without needing to spend lots of money. In the end, it helps the software maker increase its user base, and the end user gets to run the same OS across multiple machines.
For that reason, we were left wondering why Microsoft decided to discontinue the Windows 7 Family Pack so soon after the release of the OS last year. But thankfully the company is turning around and will be offering the family license again starting October 3 in the U.S.
For international markets, it goes on sale in Canada, UK, Germany, France, Australia and many other markets on or after October 22 – the one year mark of Windows 7.
The $149.99 Windows 7 Family Pack includes three upgrade licenses of Windows 7 Home Premium, which normally sells for $119.99 each.

Some trhings are worth paying for.
Something that will get a couple thousand hours use(one comp between 4 people here) for $150? Worth every cent and then some.
Likely the sales have slowed down enought to start to make marketing campaigns to try to get people who refuses a single licence price to purchase it! Its better to sell at reduced price than not at all!
Remember - Its all about the green!
Students at universities: undergraduate to PhD students please check if your institution supports MSDNAA, I got Windows 7 Pro for free along with Microsoft Visual Studio.
http://www.microsoft.com/student/en/us/software/windows.aspx
Next it'll be "Windows 7 Gamer", "Windows 7 Single Parent", "Win 7 Drug Addict (with a windows logo-encrusted crack-pipe)"...
Some trhings are worth paying for.
Something that will get a couple thousand hours use(one comp between 4 people here) for $150? Worth every cent and then some.
Your loyalty is appreciated but we need more money. Business is business.
If MS wanted to move more products, they would lower the cost for all flavors of Win 7. Full blown Ultimate should cost no more than $69.99US, with the prices for "lesser versions" tiered downward from there. The Starter and Home Basic versions should be free.
Like piracy!!
Windows isn't cheap when just looking at the price out of context, but if you compare it to the price of a game and take into account how long you use each, the price of games seems very high. $70 for 5 hours of CoD or $150 for 3 people to get thousands of hours out of Windows? Hmm...
Or $0 for any number of people to use Linux for as long as they want and in any way they see fit (something that neither Windows or most games allow)