• Windows 7 Home Premium Family Pack disappearing

    Posted on December 6, 2009 at 05:11 CST by • Comment in the Forums

    For many months, I’ve been recommending the Windows 7 Home Premium Family Pack as the best way to upgrade to Win7. Now, according to Paul Thurrott’s blog, the Family Pack has disappeared off store shelves in the US, and you can’t find it with any of the big online retailers.

    This may be the single worst Microsoft Marketing disaster in history. And believe me, history is lined with MS Marketing mess-ups.

    Why on earth would MS pull the best Christmas present on the US market, three weeks before the holidays?

    Microsoft Australia recently announced that the Family Pack would be available Down Unda starting on December 1, but I couldn’t find it on the Harvey Norman site (Harvey Norman is the largest online electronics store in Oz). Amazon UK lists the Family Pack for GBP 146, which at around US $ 240 is no great deal. (UPDATE: Amazon UK just sold out, too! The UK Microsoft Store still lists it, at GBP 150. I have no idea if they’re actually shipping the product.)

    It looks like the best deal in the US for the Win7 Home Premium upgrade is about a hundred bucks, which is something like 250% more than it used to be, just a few days ago. I guess MS figures it has a hit on its hands (it does) so they aren’t at all shy about gouging customers.

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