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Microsoft will offer a Family Pack for Windows 7 Home Premium
ithinkdifferent —
... Ed Bott has discovered a new clause in the license agreement for the latest leaked build of Windows 7, which is very close to the one that will be included with the final RTM build. The agreement has a clause for a Family Pack under Installation and Use Rights: ...
Windows 7 Family Pack? I Hope So!
Technologizer —
... ZDNet’s Ed Bott is reporting that the license for Windows 7 Home Premium appears to make provisions for a family-pack version that would permit three installations of the OS, presumably at a discounted price. (Apple sells a ...
Microsoft to release a Family Pack for Windows 7 Home Premium
Tech Ticker —
... computer in their household. Though the announcement is yet to be confirmed, a bit a sleuthing of an agreement in recently leaked Home Premium build reveals it. Apparently, Microsoft will sell the packs to “Qualified Family Pack Users” where they’ll be eligible to install the OS on three different machines in the same household. The intrinsic details like pricing or availability are still under wraps but we expect it to roll out soon.
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Microsoft offer Family Pack for Windows 7 Home Premium (E, N, K, and KN )
D' Technology Weblog —
... . This is no longer a beta license agreement and is presumably very close to the final agreement that customers will accept. Microsoft prices the Family Pack at $189, which is $10 less than Apple’s Family Pack. These same terms are also contained in the license agreement for Windows 7 Home Premium E, as well as the N, K, and KN Home Premium versions, which are also deliberately gutted of one or more features to satisfy antitrust authorities, Ed Bott. The agreements for retail copies of Windows 7 Home Premium contains ...
Evidence of Windows 7 Home Premium Family Pack
jkOnTheRun —
... Ed Bott eye-spied some legalese in the latest Windows 7 licensing agreement that leads him to believe Microsoft will indeed offer a family pack for the operating system. Ed found this tidbit in the Windows 7 Home Premium version: ...
Family Pack license for Windows 7 could cover 3 machines on the cheap
Download Squad —
... CNet's Ed Bott predicts Microsoft will undercut Apple slightly and we'll see the Family Pack priced at $189.99, though it will likely cover three machines as the Office license does. ...
Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium Family Pack plans discovered
Obsessable News Feed —
ZDNet: http://bit.ly/2Xor8y A reference to a "Family Pack" of Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium was discovered in the license agreements included with a recent release candidate of the operating system. If Microsoft does release a Family Pack, you'll be able to buy several licenses of Windows 7 at a significant discount and install them on multiple computers in your home. Otherwise you would have to buy a whole new, full-priced copy of Windows for each computer. ...
Windows 7 Home Premium to get Family Pack deal
Ars Technica —
... are a Qualified Family Pack User, visit go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?Linkid=141399 or contact the Microsoft affiliate serving your country. Currently the link noted in the clause simply redirects to Microsoft.com. Nevertheless, the fact that it's in the license terms is promising in the sense that this won't simply be a limited-time offer. Microsoft offered a Family Pack deal for Windows Vista, but only from January 30, 2007 through June 30, 2007. Pricing has yet to be revealed, but ZDNet speculates that the Family Pack will cost $189, which seems like a pretty good deal. The ...
Windows 7 Home Premium Will Have a Family Pack [Windows 7]
Gizmodo —
Ed Bott of ZDNet finds this M&M; buried inside the horrible trail mix that is the Windows 7 Home Premium End User License Agreement: there's going to be a Family Pack. That's it. There's going to be a family pack for three users. Nobody knows what the pricing will be, but Apple's family pack pricing is $199 for five users. Only three (Mom, Dad and Junior) can use Windows 7, so theoretically it should be lower than $199. But when you look at the pricing for a standalone one-user copy of Home Premium, it's $120 for an upgrade and $200 for a full ...
Microsoft to offer three-user Windows 7 Family Pack?
TechSpot —
... of reports citing details in the end-user licensing agreement (EULA) of a recently-leaked build. The still-unconfirmed plan would enable users to install a single copy the operating system on up to three computers in a household, and falls in line with similar licensing Microsoft already has for the Home & Student Edition of Microsoft Office 2007. There's no word on Family Pack pricing yet. Some suggest it would be somewhere around $189 to undercut Apples comparable plan which gives you five OS X licenses for $199, but when you ...
Windows 7 Ultimate Extra: You still pay the Extra price
TechBlog —
... and Professional. For its part, Microsoft isn't being too helpful. While the company hasn't announced any discounts for Vista Ultimate owners, it's not ruling them out either. But users have only until July 11 to take advantage of Microsoft's pre-order discount on Windows 7 Professional or Home Premium. "This is the first of the offers and there will be more to come, but we can't get into specifics on any of that yet," a Microsoft representative told CNET News. Meanwhile, Ed Bott reports finding a reference to a "Family Pack" in the license agreement in recent leaked builds ...
Windows 7 Pricing vs. Mac OS X: Why Even Go There? [TheAppleBlog]
GigaOM Network —
... Still, there are some in the Microsoft community that try to justify it by comparing it to Apple’s pricing for Mac OS X. Microsoft can never win this game. Heck, Microsoft never even gets in this game. And yet, you have folks like Ed Bott at ZDNet giving it a shot. Here’s his latest salvo: ...
Microsoft Will Offer Family Pack for Windows 7 Home Premium
Maximum PC all RSS Feed —
... Until now, it was assumed that Microsoft would only sell single license versions of Windows 7. But, thanks to a recent discovery in the latest license agreement, there’s some evidence suggesting otherwise. ...
Evidence Emerges of Windows 7 Home Premium Family Pack
Alice Hill's Real Tech News - Independent Tech —
... promotions they announced for upgrades to Windows 7 Home Premium and Windows 7 Professional were applauded, while at the same time the question emerged: what, no Family Pack? While there’s still no official announcement, there is evidence that such a pack may exist. Those with decent memories will recall that just before Vista launched Microsoft announced a “Family Pack” deal for those who bought Ultimate: two additional copies of Home Premium for a lower price. Here’s what Ed Bott found embedded in the the license folder in the latest leaked builds of Windows 7: b) Family ...
Microsoft to offer Windows 7 Family Pack License?
Bink.nu —
... and Ed Bott show that Windows 7 Home Premium will probably ship with a special licensing option aimed at home users with multiple Windows instalallations. ...
Windows 7 Upgrade Guide: All Your Questions Answered
Maximum PC all RSS Feed —
... If you managed to get in on the promotional pricing, three copies of Windows Home Premium would have only run you $147. The Family Pack license that will be offered by Microsoft will likely cost around $189 ($10 less than Apple), and as a result, you still came out ahead. ...
Windows 7 pre-order sale ends today
TechBlog —
... . This is one case in which procrastination is financially painful. However, it's possible there will be more promotions for Windows 7, based on this vague statement from a Microsoft spokesperson to my buddy Ed Bott: . . . We will continue to work with our partners and expect to have other great offers in the future as we lead up to and beyond general availability. We have nothing to announce at this time. Posted by Dwight at July 11, 2009 04:00 PM Share: Comments Post a comment URL: Remember Me? Yes No Comments: (you may use HTML tags for style)
