Microsoft kills Windows 7 Family Pack promotion

Crooks...

Come on Linux!

Funny you should say that, i much prefer using Puppy linux over Win7 these days. Did i say it was free ? (for those out that that don't know it's free) :p

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y178/creaky/pupnew2.jpg

"Those suckers that bought Vista Ultimate, myself included, are screwed," said yet another commenter. "There isn't a chance in hell that I am paying $219 for what should really be Vista SP2. We were promised 'extras' which we never got, now we are being excluded from the pre-order special. Anyway even at $49, it is still too much to pay."

The extras that commenter mentioned refer to "Ultimate Extras," one of the main features Microsoft cited in the months leading up to the 2007 release of Vista Ultimate to distinguish the operating system from its lower-priced siblings. According to Microsoft's marketing, Extras were to be "cutting-edge programs, innovative services and unique publications" that would be regularly offered only to users of Vista's highest-priced edition.

But users soon began belittling the paltry number of add-ons Microsoft released and the company's leisurely pace at providing them. Just five months after Vista was launched, critics started to complain.

Earlier this year, Microsoft dumped the feature, saying that it would instead focus on existing features in Windows 7 rather than again promise extras.

The furor over Vista Ultimate has even reached analysts' ranks. In May, Michael Cherry of Directions on Microsoft urged Microsoft to give Vista Ultimate owners a free upgrade to Windows 7. "It would buy them a lot of good will, and I don't think it would cost them much," Cherry said at the time.

Some of the commenters in the latest Computerworld stories about Windows 7 echoed Cherry.

"I am running Vista Ultimate and feel ripped off by Microsoft because ... [we] never received the extras we paid good money to get," said "Hellfire" in a long comment. "The very least that they should do is offer a heavily-discounted upgrade to Windows 7 Ultimate to those that have lost money by purchasing Vista Ultimate."

check google for source

hi creaky could you provide a dL link to puppy linux? Always willing to shank the M$ empire when i get a chance.

google is your friend http://puppylinux.org

I myself got a vista pc and it will be highly unlikely that I will update to win7. The next computer I will buy will be a Mac because I'm ready to say my goodbye to ms.

i only game on Windows its like a console, for every thing else there is Gentoo.

Evil bastards...they never updated Windows Vista Media Center like they promised to either.

Darn, I wasn't aware this was a limited time promotion. I thought it was just an added package MS was offering to keep up with Apple on this. That is very disappointing.

I would not be suprised to see the deal come back in January.

Saw this and nabbed the last copy from my local Wal-Mart. $250 is outrageous!!!

Why not offer child installs to a main key? MS once again you suck!!

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The Family Pack offered a 3-license pack of Windows 7 Home Premium for $150 USD, a sharp discount off individual MSRPs of $120 each.

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I got my family pack at Costco for $135. It's a stellar deal and a great os. I dual boot win 7 with karmic koala. I think 7 is a vast improvement and this deal was too good to pass up. Remember you can still get 7 for $30 if you have a valid .edu email address.

Attending the local community college for 4 months and haven't received even a student card. Will never receive an edu email address. Went to Ms website twice and they said they'd get back to me in 2 weeks. Other area community colleges are on the list. Have tried Ubuntu 3/4 times only to have programs fail or corrupt. Even though they compile.

http://www.downloadsquad.com/2009/09/18/...p-or-even-free/ http://www.pcworld.com/article/172258/wi...thers_lose.html these are old links but still exist for your reading.

windows 9x allowed installs of up to 5 Computers at once. when windows went to the NT kernel only they brought there shoddy license agreements with it.

its 1 install per CPU windows 7/vista theoretically can be installed 4 times on a single core CPU or two times on a dual core or once on a quad, the reason its shoddy is because the license agreement was for 1 physical CPU and Windows doesn't know the difference between a physical CPU or a multi-core one so really there cheating you out of 4 licenses

im just wonder what happens when people want an 8 core CPU AMD is coming out with.