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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.
[Via ZDnet]
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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: ...
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 ...
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 ...
Is Family Pack In The Future For Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium?
Coated —
... be restricted to users in a single household and not available for business use.
Currently Microsoft has something similar to the Family Pack with their Office 2007 Home and Student Edition, which allows installation of the application on up to three computers in a single household.
A Microsoft representative was quoted as saying, “we have nothing to announce at this time” regarding the Family Pack edition, but speculators insist the Family Pack is on its way.
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