Comments on: Evidence of Windows 7 Home Premium Family Pack

By: vernon

vernon — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 03:05:02 +0000

It’s about time microsoft did this. It was costly and inconvenient to get so many copies of XP outfitted for my several home computers. I have some Macs too, and they benefited from the family pack licensing which I got through a special deal for $50 for 5 licenses.

By: eTomm

eTomm — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 21:38:50 +0000

Three license of 189$??? Just if they will be Ultimate. I don’t need three pcs that are not able to enter in a domain.

By: Sorin

Sorin — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 07:05:53 +0000

189$ for 3 licences would be pretty good, but still expensive for me. I now have a desktop running Windows 7 Beta (yeah, I know, gotta update this weekend), girlfriend’s MSI wind with licenced XP, plus this work laptop which is out of the question.

I plan on buying a laptop for myself. I could get one without Windows and wait for this offer (use RC and Ubuntu meanwile), but then again I could just pay the extra ~50$ for (possibly upgradeable) Vista on the laptop and just let the others with XP and/or Linux.

Or maybe they can make another super-offer here in Romania, like they did with Office 2007 home and student, which they basically gave away: 3 licences = ~ 50$. It was actually my first bought retail software ever :D

By: GeoffreyM

GeoffreyM — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 22:57:28 +0000

I would love to know the pricing because I got an offer from MS to pre-buy 7 Home Premium for $49. If it were $189 for a family license, I’d still be better off purchasing a couple copies now. The price for the Professional version is $99 through this offer.

By: Jake

Jake — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:29:58 +0000

From memory, MS did something similar as a limited time, US-only offer when Vista was released. I think you got 3 Home Premium licenses with a copy of Ultimate or something like that.

Although I can understand why they don’t, I wish they’d offer this sort of deal for 7 Pro users – mainly because that’s the minimum version that I could get away with and I too have one two many devices that will need to be upgraded :) I’m kind of selfish that way but Home Premium isn’t enough for me.

Anyway, lets hope this turns out to be a standard, reasonably priced deal and that it’s available worldwide.

BTW, in addition to the Office licensing that you mentioned above, all other versions of Office are licensed for installation on a PC and a laptop. If MS licensed Windows in the same way (maybe limit it to the Professional edition) then they’d solve most people’s multi-PC upgrade issues and put an end to any complaints related to pricing.