Vista Family pack?

[Guest]

A week or so back I saw a report on Cnet or ZDnet or maybe Information Week
that dealt with a Family Pack/Bundle that was being contemplated. According
to the article Microsoft was planning or considering letting family users who
purchased Vista Ultimate to also purchase two copies of Home Premium at a
discounted price of $49.99 per copy for use on their other home computers.

I wonder if that was just someone talking who was not in the know or was it
in fact true? I have not been able to find any other mention of such a sales
package being proposed or actually offered for sale next week.

Does anyone have a comment? I will definitely be buying Ultimate for my
primary computer but I have two others running Windows 2000 that I would like
to put Home Premium on. Information on product configurations and pricing
are so far sparse and in many cases confusing.

 

[Chad Harris]

This discount is real and much needed. A lot of us lobbied for it.

Family Discount Announcement by MSFT
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2007/jan07/01-17ConsumerOptionsPR.mspx?source=rss&WT.dl=0

Context
http://www.windows-now.com/blogs/ro...anding-the-windows-vista-family-discount.aspx

http://www.windows-now.com/blogs/ro...ers-the-story-behind-the-family-discount.aspx

CH

 

[Mario Rosario \(info\)]

Yeah, that is a good word, lobby.

This discount is real and much needed. A lot of us lobbied for it.

Family Discount Announcement by MSFT
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2007/jan07/01-17ConsumerOptionsPR.mspx?source=rss&WT.dl=0

Context
http://www.windows-now.com/blogs/ro...anding-the-windows-vista-family-discount.aspx

http://www.windows-now.com/blogs/ro...ers-the-story-behind-the-family-discount.aspx

CH

 

[Richard Urban]

You don't buy the "package" in a store. You purchase Vista Ultimate in the
store. Then you contact Microsoft to obtain the 2 keys that will allow you
to install the purchased Vista DVD as Vista HOME Premium (after supplying
your credit card number of course).

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

 

[joel]

From the MS press release: "Before completing the order online, customers
will need to enter one valid full or upgrade Windows Vista Ultimate key from
their retail boxed product. After eligibility is verified online, the
customer can purchase licenses to install Windows Vista Home Premium on one
or two additional Windows-based computers."

So do I take it from the last sentence that the two additional Vista Home
Premium licenses will be "upgrade" licenses instead of "full" licenses?

"Richard Urban" wrote in

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

Here is the MS announcement:
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2007/jan07/01-17ConsumerOptionsPR.mspx
Scroll down to the bottom of the page.

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

It doesn't say so don't assume it. Wait until MS posts a FAQ page for the
program.

 

[Mario Rosario \(info\)]

Don't look the gift horse in the mouth.

From the MS press release: "Before completing the order online, customers
will need to enter one valid full or upgrade Windows Vista Ultimate key
from their retail boxed product. After eligibility is verified online, the
customer can purchase licenses to install Windows Vista Home Premium on
one or two additional Windows-based computers."

So do I take it from the last sentence that the two additional Vista Home
Premium licenses will be "upgrade" licenses instead of "full" licenses?

"Richard Urban" wrote in

 

[Hugh Wyn Griffith]

Unfortuantely they've redirected the link to Family Offer down at the
end of the press release, or not set it up:

The Windows Vista Family Discount is available only in the U.S. and
Canada. More information is available at
http://www.windowsvista.com/FamilyOffer .

takes you to http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/

 

[Guest]

Thanks for all the replies. I am a happy camper today!

Also thanks to the people who lobbied succesfully for this deal.

 

[Hugh Wyn Griffith]

Thanks but I can claim absolutely no credit for that!