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Windows 7 Family Pack Pricing Confirmed At $US149

Adrian Covert — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 20:50:00 +0000

In case you’re interested in upgrading to Win 7 (you should be, BTW), and want to get the rest of the family in on that action, know that the Windows 7 family pack will offcially cost $US149.

The Family Pack upgrade will net you three copies of Home Premium edition for legal consumption—BUT WAIT…there’s more! Also know that single licence upgrades from Starter to Home Premium will run you about $US80, Home Premium to Professional will go for $US90, and if you ACT FAST and call in the next FIVE MINUTES (just half the time it takes to upgrade!), going from Professional to Ultimate will cost $US140.

These prices are all in the ballpark of what was rumoured earlier in the month, though no mention has been made of a pre-release promotional discount. [Cnet via Engadget]

Rumour: Windows 7 Family Pack Will Offer Three Licenses For $137

Adrian Covert — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 00:29:58 +0000

Prices for the Windows 7 Family Pack have apparently leaked, according to ZDNet, and the multi-user bundle will net you three copies of Windows 7 for $US137. Also revealed were prices for the Windows 7 Anytime Upgrade products.

These prices aren’t 100 percent confirmed, and no one knows certain when these products will ship. But the speculation is that upgrading from Windows 7 Starter to Windows 7 Home Premium will cost $US82, while upgrading from Home Premium to Professional or Ultimate will cost $US91 or $US138, respectively.

Is your head spinning yet? Good. Because you should also know that Microsoft plans to run a pre-release promotion to lower both the Home Premium and Ultimate upgrade prices to $US49 and $US99, respectively. OK, done. Phew. [ZDNet via Electronista]

Windows 7 Home Premium Will Have A Family Pack

Jason Chen — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:30:00 +0000

Ed Bott of ZDNet finds this M&M buried inside the horrible trail mix that is the Windows 7 Home Premium End User licence 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 $US199 for five users. Only three (Mum, Dad and Junior) can use Windows 7, so theoretically it should be lower than $US199. But when you look at the pricing for a standalone one-user copy of Home Premium, it’s $US120 for an upgrade and $US200 for a full version. So somewhere between $US120 and $US199 for an upgrade Family Pack, and somewhere between $US200 and infinity for a retail Family Pack. [ZDNet]