Windows 7 Family Pack License

Claymoore

Catching up on some blog posts this morning and I ran across this:

Windows Anytime Upgrade and Family Pack Pricing - Windows 7 Team Blog - The Windows Blog

Today, most homes have more than one PC in them. When you run Windows 7 on more than one PC on a home network, you can do more with features like HomeGroup. HomeGroup allows people to connect to PCs on their network and share files, music and photos with the whole family – easily. The Windows 7 Family Pack is an easy and affordable way to get all your PCs in your household running Windows 7 through licensing to install Windows 7 Home Premium on up to 3 PCs.

The Windows 7 Family Pack will be available starting on October 22nd until supplies last here in the US and other select markets. In the US, the price for the Windows 7 Family Pack will be $149.99 for 3 Windows 7 Home Premium licenses. That’s a savings of more than $200 for three licenses. This is a great value and we’re excited to be able to offer it to customers.

I already ordered discounted Windows 7 home premium licenses for the wife and I (and we didn't need 3 licenses anyway), but I like the aggressive pricing. Looks like MS wants people upgrading as soon as possible rather than waiting until they buy a new PC.

blargoe

I was wondering when they would release the pricing for that. If that's a full license and not an upgrade license that's a pretty good deal.

nel

Claymoore wrote: »

Looks like MS wants people upgrading as soon as possible rather than waiting until they buy a new PC.

When has a new windows OS never required a hardware upgrade for most folks

Pretty good pricing though.

blargoe

7 runs pretty good on my 4 year old Dell laptop... though it was top of the line at the time

RTmarc

nel wrote: »

When has a new windows OS never required a hardware upgrade for most folks

Pretty good pricing though.

Windows 7 - in my experience - runs better on the same hardware as Vista and almost as good as XP on some older machines.

Lamini

the first OS where I did not use drivers to install my computer. scanner, printer, nics, monitors, raid0 raptors, wireless card, videocard, bluetooth receiver, controllers, ... i think you catch my drift. never was i able to install windows, and all my other peripherals out of the box without installing drivers

tiersten

Lamini wrote: »

the first OS where I did not use drivers to install my computer. scanner, printer, nics, monitors, raid0 raptors, wireless card, videocard, bluetooth receiver, controllers, ... i think you catch my drift. never was i able to install windows, and all my other peripherals out of the box without installing drivers

That just means your equipment is old enough for drivers to be prepackaged in Windows 7 or they're backwards compatible with existing drivers.