This is the Windows 7 Family Pack Box

Wow, that's a pretty box . Green and good lookin'

It's a nice box/packaging. I think the pricing is fair.
LEMME GET ONE!

Anyone know if there will be a family pack for Ultimate? If so what the price is expected to be?

However, it does say upgrade. The oem version might still be a viable option for those of us who built all out our home systems.

I want my BMW M3 to be painted in this gradient.

Oh i just might buy that just so i can active my windows without calling India a few years from now.

Screw Ultimate....just a bunch of bloatware I'd never use.

The family box pricing is impressive indeed. When software is priced within a range I can afford and feels reasonable I purchase it and do NOT pirate.

I think if PC games were $10-20 a pop I'd buy all the ones I think look good. When the companies make them so expensive and people realize the'll play 10-20 hours of a game it's just not worth $60 to them so they pirate it. If I had to pay $110 per computer at my home for Win7 I'd say screw it, but $150 for 3 copies is reasonable.

Take the hint software, music and movie companies. If you just lower your prices MORE people will buy and offset the lower cost per piece with more volume and you'll probably make MORE money. No one wants to pirate, but if you can't afford it then what?

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE call it the Family Pack UPGRADE and stop this confusion

the top of the box says "upgrade for Windows Vista" so if you didn't drop the $130 for that piece of crap to begin with it, and stayed with XP looks like you can't use this. Thats too bad. I was considering upgrading. But this is really $150 for 3 service packs. thats all 7 is over Vista.

the color of a box is NOT news. The price is the news and it's old now.

Green? Either you're color vision isn't great, or your monitor needs major adjustment. Unless of course you're trying to suggest it is "green" by only having one package for three computers...

Finally, the economy has affected ripoff$oft.

Then you don't play the game, simple as that. If you can't afford a car, you don't go out and steal one.

Wasn't there a previous discussion on which previous Windows can be upgraded to Win7? As far as I can recall, MS (or could be someone else) said that you can directly upgrade from Vista to Win7 without format, but Win7 is also available for XP user with an extra step of doing a HDD format + "clean install". Did anyone else read about this?

yeah, I meant "green" packaging, not the color green LOL

Not sure of the accuracy, It was on the MS Blog comments, but one user noted that the upgrade can only be performed from a home SKU, so if you have XP Pro, or Vista Pro, you can't upgrade them with this.

Yeah, I'm interested in which versions you can upgrade as well. I have two XP machines, and one Vista machine.

Hmmm... One of my XP machines is Pro. That sucks.

Actually, I guess that has since been debunked in TheStandard.. The following article has an FAQ on the Windows 7 family pack, and they state that you can indeed upgrade with the family pack, from XP/Vista Pro.

Source

Would be even better if it didn't say upgrade...

I was glad with this, but then I saw the Upgrade 3 PCs for a SPECIAL price.

I hope MS keeps this strategy going, the office 3-pack was a nice change of pace for us.

This windows pack is good news .

I'm more than happy to pay $50/license for Windows, to me thats an affordable price point for a piece of software.

Thanks for the source; though I am still wondering how the clean install upgrade process will be like for Win7? It may be something we won't know until the actual product is out. I ask because when I installed my XP Pro (an upgrade CD), it doesn't check for any previous license. So does that mean Win7 home premium family "upgrade" pack will ask for previous license key during the clean install when upgrading from XP, Vista Enterprise, Business and Ultimate? (If you don't know what I'm talking about, read ruhere's source; that may help.)

Its still only an upgrade. =/ even if it does have shiny gold packaging.

Thats an UPGRADE box... They said the family pack was going to be 3 FULL licenses of Home Premium.... where is that box and why did you use the pricing ($149.99) for the full family pack with the picture for the Upgrade family pack?

Didn't even know there was going to be an upgrade family pack....

Theres a difference between luxury items and commodity items. I would hardly call on OS (or upgrade) a luxury item. If you couldn't afford new clothes what would you do?

dont compare software to cars please.

say your friend has a game, and he burns you a copy. is it theft? no its copyright infringement.

say your friend has a ferrari, well he cant burn you a copy because thats just stupid.

bad analogy.

So its $149.99 for 3 upgrades of what? Is this price for a 32bit only upgrade? Can I upgrade XP 32bit to Home premium 64bit with this Family pack? I don't think this is a good deal. I don't because its going to stick us with 32bit. How much is the win7 32 to 64bit upgrade?

How much is the full version 3x family pack? Will there be a full version 3x family pack? Is M$ doing a hyped bait and swap?

Ah... see how much SIMPLER and EASIER it would be if Microsoft only had a RETAIL version of their OS that does upgrades. $150, Home edition 64 or 32bit install - clean or upgrade. No questions or confusion. And maybe the pirates will buy it too.



Windows7 is more than Vista with Service Paks. Sp2 Vista is no Windows7. Memory management is different, it installs in about 10~15minutes. Not the BS that is vista.

Upgrade?! WTF?! I expected fully-licensed, independent 32-bit/64-bit (choice being user's discretion) software... not upgrade versions.

Didn't everyone else???

I'll stick with Vista-64 and XP on all my machines if this is the only legitimate "Pack" offered.

A single license is good for 3 computers anyways isn't it?