• Windows 7 Family Pack details announced – and Europeans get screwed again

    Posted on August 1, 2009 at 08:07 CDT by • Comment in the Forums

    Okay, I’m shocked.

    I’ve read and re-re-re-read Microsoft’s announcement about the Windows 7 Family Pack, and I have to come to the conclusion that the Family Pack contains the Windows 7 “full” DVD, and three licenses for Windows Home Premium. The announcement doesn’t say a thing about the Upgrade version.

    That means you can buy a Windows 7 Family Pack and install fresh, clean, perfectly valid copies of Windows Home Premium on three PCs (the announcement doesn’t say anything about “PCs owned by one family”), even if the PCs are currently running pirate or “Ungenuine” copies of Windows. In fact, as best I can tell, you can put Windows 7 Home Premium on PCs running Linux – a boon for netbook users.

    Read the announcement and tell me if I’ve wrong.

    The Family Pack lists for US $150. Expect it to be available for $130 or so. That’s a tremendous deal – cheaper than the $49 pre-sale promotion, and (again, I think) it’s the full version,  not the promotional upgrade. Microsoft says it’s only available “until supplies last.” We’ll see if supplies ever run out.

    As I hinted before, this is a great way for individuals (with two of your closest buddies?) to get legal. Whether small (family?) businesses qualify for the license remains to be seen.

    Oh. The same announcement gives outrageous prices for the “Anytime Upgrade” from Windows 7 Pro to Ultimate, as explained in Ed Bott’s blog, and the prices for Win7 in the UK and Europe (note that there’s no mention of Windows 7 E) for Anytime Upgrades are up to twice as much as they are in the US.

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