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I installed the family pack on 3 pcs (1 desktop, 2 laptops).  When it says it can be activated 3 times, what would happen if I have to reinstall for some reason, let's say 6 months down the road?  Would it recognize that it's the same pc signature or would I have to jump thru hoops to call Microsoft?

I've been digging into the various licensing options for Microsoft products between KMS servers and MAK(Microsoft Activated Keys) systems and it's amazing how they can generate a MAK with a specific number of activations live from their sites on the fly.

I needed a Server 2008 MAK this morning and within 2 minutes I had generated a key and put it on the server completely painlessly.

Makes sence that they do this with the family packs too.

@JFP I've had that problem with the Office 2007 home and student pack.  I do tend to go through machines.  If you go through and try to activate it and it says you have already used the activation key, you can do telephone activation and get it activated that way.

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Thanks Davey, as long as I know if I have to reload I can make an easy call, then I am ok with it.  

Epic fail on Amazon, still haven't gotten my Win 7 disks, fortunately I also got them from MS, but if I hadn't I'd be pretty pissed.

Clean install with the upgrade media worked great it activated no problem!

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Just when you thought Microsoft marketing was so pathetic, that they couldn't get any worse.. they do.

www.therawfeed.com/.../microsoft-pulls-out-of-family-guy.html

Too bad they wouldn't make a Family Pack with Windows 7 Ultimate ... that would be about perfect for me.

"Just when you thought Microsoft marketing was so pathetic, that they couldn't get any worse.. they do."

And this has to do with the Family Pack...how?

In any case, it's interesting.

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"Just when you thought Microsoft marketing was so pathetic, that they couldn't get any worse.."

That statement should only have been said had they actually stayed with the Family Guy project.

This post was mentioned on Twitter by the_pc_doc: There you go @edbott - confirmation that you get one product key in a family pack http://bit.ly/47Ol1R

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