Microsoft to offer Vista ‘Family Pack’ discount for Ultimate users

Vikingod

Source: ZDNet
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Even though the retail launch of Windows Vista just a couple of weeks away, Microsoft is still continuing to fine-tune its licensing and pricing details.

Sources said that Microsoft will announce some time over the next few days that the company will allow Vista Ultimate customers to purchase two additional copies of Vista Home Premium for somewhere between $50 to $99 a piece.

In order to qualify for the so-called "Family Pack" promotion, customers will first need to purchase at retail a copy of Vista Ultimate, which carries an estimated retail price of $399 U.S. The deal will not be offered to those who purchase Ultimate preloaded on a new PC, sources said; it will be for customers buying and/or upgrading via retail channels only.

Judas

sounds like a steller deal to me...

Al_Vampyre

Of course it sounds like a good deal, thats because it is a good deal...MS obviously want to make sure that people with more than one PC are using Vista on all of them, at those prices very few people could afford a full price Vista on multiple machines

CDsDontBurn

why not $25/per extra copy?

craig5320

Vista Ultimate 32bit&64bit Retail: £350

Vista Ultimate 32Bit OEM: £135
Vista Home Premium OEM: £78

Hmmm.... Stella

Al_Vampyre

Its a fair point Craig, but my problem with the OEM copy is always going to be restrictions on the hardware, most of DH's users upgrade fairly frequently and Vista's OEM EULA is apparently even tighter than XP's...

I'm at the moment running a dual XP/Ubuntu boot because I'm trying to migrate at least one of my boxes (Media Centre because I don't play games on it) to Ubuntu. I'm stuck with XP for the gaming machine for obvious reasons and I doubt that I'll be switching to Vista anytime soon.

But, if I do decide to go with Vista for the gaming machine, then I'll have to go 'retail' because that machine is the one that gets upgraded on a reasonably frequent basis, and if that happens I may well take advantage of this deal and have the media centre on Vista as well because it was basically a cost consideration that made me choose Ubuntu for it. On that basis, MS is incresing its user base by one more machine and Linux is losing a user...its a smart move on their part.