Possible evidence of 3-PC Windows 7 Home Premium Family Pack licensing

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Balthazar9 — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 06:45:49 GMT

I like you mike, you’ve got a rather sharp sense of humor. Although I was wondering what purpose (if any) IE8 and FF3.5 privacy mode serves? My activities are camouflaged under hacked universities proxy servers and occasionally torproject.org all running in a virtual environment. These methods are far more covert guarantying anonymity. In a pinch, piggybacking off my neighbor’s wifi will do just fine.

Say, I’m terribly curious if Paul has downloaded my Win7 permanent activation crack ... he said something on Leo’s show about using torrent sites to stay current with recent builds for his forthcoming book.

Microsoft private browsing built upon DRM glued together by GUID.

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re: Possible evidence of 3-PC Windows 7 Home Premium Family Pack licensing

mikegalos@msn.com — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 03:55:04 GMT

Well, Bal;

What MS marketing was thinking was, "hey. if we do a really odd/strange/gross video then people will tell their friends about it and we get TONS of free viral marketing coverage."

Thanks for helping out and hope you're enjoying both IE 8 and whatever you're hiding with IE 8's InPrivate Browsing features so the people in your life don't suffer from O.M.G.I.G.P.

re: Possible evidence of 3-PC Windows 7 Home Premium Family Pack licensing

Balthazar9 — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 02:49:17 GMT

I apologize in advance if Paul has discussed this already:

www.youtube.com/watch

What in the world was MS marketing thinking?

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niyokochan — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 23:58:27 GMT

@iSwallow: Are you just trying to shake things up and get people complaining back to you? I honestly can't imagine you or anyone truly believe what you said...It is to ridiculous.

Beyond that, I was really surprised that my parents copy of Office'07 was good on 3 PCs! That was a great surprise! I remember buying student copies of Office and using one copy for all the PCs in my house. ^-^ They never needed to be activated or checked.

On my old Gateway Solo the copy of XP pro had a 2 user key. I had used the copy of XP on another machine and was surprised one day to read the product key sticker to actually see it say a 2 user license. Go Gateway and Microsoft for that!! :D

If this holds true, and I hope it does, it justifies the higher price for me. By buying the $120 upgrade I would just be paying about $40 per PC. :)

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wjglenn141 — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 22:17:27 GMT

Just not getting why people jump on Ultimate like they got ripped off. You did get the combination of business features (complete PC backup, BitLocker, etc) and home premium features (Media Center), right?

That's what you were paying for.

If anybody really bought Vista Ultimate for the Ultimate Extras, that was a very dumb decision.

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whiplash55 — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:47:14 GMT

If I was running Ultimate I'd be pissed too. That said I got my upgrades for $39 and $89 respectively from Micro Center so the price is fine by me.

A family pack for 3 is plenty enough for most households the price doesn't have to compare that closely to Apple since their upgrade model has you upgrading your OS every 2 years

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Backup77 — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:37:07 GMT

As Paul said this is big and hopefully it comes to fruition as a 3-PC Family Pack License with the right pricing would have wide spread support.

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lotsamystuff — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:03:35 GMT

"Of Product Keys. Supply of product keys"

Can't they pirate them like everyone else?

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chuckb84 — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:08:53 GMT

Shark,

Microsoft is running out of product keys ;). Who knew.

I do understand that Microsoft may want to limit the number of sales at that price, and also try to create a sales spike with that language to create a PR buzz; I just find the phrasing odd.

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shark47 — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:00:12 GMT

"The part of still laughing at is the "while supplies last" caveat. Supplies? Of what? They haven't even pressed the DVDs yet. Or, do we mean "supplies" of a download. Hilarious"

Of Product Keys. Supply of product keys.

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chuckb84 — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:28:35 GMT

"And now the emerging details of the maybe we will/maybe we won't family pack vs The limited time deal! Aaaaagh!! "

The part of still laughing at is the "while supplies last" caveat. Supplies? Of what? They haven't even pressed the DVDs yet. Or, do we mean "supplies" of a download. Hilarious.

I do hope they have a family pack deal. It would only seem fair to customers willing to have -several- PCs in their homes....

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