Micosoft's announced some
Windows 7 pricing today, starting with a "family pack" option, which will allow users to upgrade three PCs to the Home Premium edition of the operating system for $149. The upgrade from XP or Vista to Home Premium for individual users, as
previously announced, is $119. The company's also announced the Microsoft Anytime Upgrade option, which will allow users to move from one version of Windows 7 to another for a discounted price. Moving from Windows 7 Starter to Home Premium will run you $79.99, while the move from Home Premium to Professional will set you back $89.99. Finally, the move from Windows 7 Professional to Ultimate will cost $139.99, and Microsoft says that the upgrades can be done in about 10 minutes. The company did not, however, specify what the move from Windows 7 Ultimate to Windows 7 Uber-Super Awesome would run, but we'll keep an eye out for you, and let you know when we do.
[Via
CNET]
posted July 31st 2009 4:03PM
The "family pack" seems like the perfect option for me, will it work if i have xp installed on all three or would i have to install vista on all three first?
$149? Are they out of their mind in this economy? What will be the reason to pay $149 for Vista Pro?
What does the pricing of Vista have to do with Windows 7? Or was that supposed to be a clever little "Windows 7 = Vista" joke?
No, not Vista. We're talking about Vista Pro aka Windows 7. :)
I would guess they saw a lot of people pick up 3 copies of Win7 Home upgrade for $149 ... I know we did.
As mcmike said, I hope you can install these on computers not in your house. I want to give a copy to 2 of my cousins.
I think I'll start with Home and then upgrade throughout the year.
Vista Home Premium came with my PC so I guess I could get 7 Home Premium for 119?
Damn straight
I was wondering what to do? I have three computers in my house all using Windows Vista 64bit Ultimate. Will Microsoft be offering the family pack for windows 7 Ultimate?
These aren't labeled plainly. They should be called:
o Windows upgrade to won't run your peripheral devices, no drivers version
o Windows upgrade to won't run your XP applications, bad design version
o Windows upgrade to whoops, lost all your data, fresh install required version
...and finally...
o Windows upgrade to OSX, it just works version.
the last sentence killed the soaring momentum!