Microsoft brings back Windows 7 Family Pack

[Simon]

Microsoft has revived its Windows 7 Family Pack discount, just days after confirming it was over.

The package offered three upgrade licenses of Windows 7 Home Premium for £150, a decent discount off the £99 full price for each license.

However, some looking to upgrade haven't been able to find the deal lately, including one PC Pro reader who wrote in saying the cost to move his family's PCs to Windows 7 was simply too high without the discount.

When asked last week why the Family Pack was no more, Microsoft told PC Pro that the discount was always intended to be for a limited time.

Read more: http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/360766/microsoft-brings-back-windows-7-family-pack

[esh]

Frankly I think it's stupid for Microsoft to discontinue such an offer. 95%+ of their retail sales come from corporations licensing Windows en masse. Most consumers just get Windows with their computer. The only reason I have 4 Windows 7 licenses is that I cashed in on the pre-order offers which made it actually seem like good value. It's now £200 a license which I simply would not pay for. MS should see Windows as the entry to their other software (such as Dev Studio, Office, etc) and as such should price it accordingly. I really don't see what they're thinking with this pricing, honestly.

[Simon]

I pre-ordered mine from Tesco, and got it for £53.  It's still in the unopened box. 

[Steve]

Get it installed

[Simon]

I was planning on doing so with a new self build, but have never found the time, or inclination, to start it!

[Rik]

The installation?

[esh]

Pfft, the Windows 7 installation is easy....! Compared to Windows 95 certainly 

Or Solaris ... 

Or OpenBSD 

[Rik]

3.1 was the really fun one - an armful of floppy disks and an afternoon of feeding them into the machine.

[esh]

This is true. Plus I had to delete the help files as it went along to fit it on my 286 hard drive.

Then again, the first time I ran the OpenBSD installer and it asked for partition size... in units of hard drive cylinders my blood ran cold.

[Rik]

 

Life was primitive then.

[Simon]

The installation?

The build! 

[Glenn]

Building a PC is like primary school, you have the assembly, then registration, after that, you can play.  

[Rik]

 

[Simon]

Building a PC is like primary school, you have the assembly, then registration, after that, you can play. 

And the laying-on-the-floor-kicking-and-screaming tantrums too! 

[Rik]

Luckily, you don't have to drink milk.

[Simon]

I love milk!  Could drink pints of the stuff! 

[Glenn]

Me too.

[Rik]

 

[Simon]