Windows Vista Family Discount Program concludes at month's end

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Bill Harries — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 21:01:39 GMT

Are there any plans to bring back the Windows Family discount program for purchasers of Windows Vista Ultimate?

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Jediman — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 01:00:03 GMT

Microsoft -> As a licensing consultant and expert, the pricing on licenses outside of the VL discounted programs (hell even inside of them) is still way too high. You keep hoping that people stop pirating software, which in turn reportadedly drives prices up, yet its pricing thats the initial culprit in all of the issues to begin with!

Why should anyone have to (or want to) pay hundreds of dollars for an OS that seriously needs a service pack before its truly useable? Not to mention the pricing program above was really terrible when you look at it.

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kingsclear — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 02:00:05 GMT

I am not that negative about Vista. I want to upgrade to Ultimate and just didn't have the money to take advantage of the family discount before June 30. Since then I have upped my RAM to 2 GB and all my hardware is ready to go.

Nick...please bring back the Vista Family Discount!

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Nick White — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 20:46:18 GMT

Hey BruinMan: drop me an email describing your situation via the Contact funtion on the blog and I'll look into it.

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BruinMan — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 03:56:13 GMT

I did attend the Vista 2007 Lanuch Party (New Day) and did purchase two full version keys of Home Premium for a total of $100. Ha! MS only gave me keys and no phyical disk(s).

However, I cannot get the keys to work. I am guessing because the Vista Ultimate version I got (Launch Party) was good for 6 months. Which version can I purchase to get these keys working. Of course please let me know if the cheap UPGRADE or OEM will work. Grrrr!!

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statm1 — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 03:02:59 GMT

Ok, I will be the first to say that I loved this deal. Getting two full version keys of Home Premium for a total of $100. Blew my mind! You could easily spend close to $1000 just on those three licenses alone. And I got them for what half that. I say hell yea.

Dont see why people are complaining about MS taking a couple hundred dollars off the price. I LOVE MS for giving us this discount.

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newscientist2000 — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 05:50:38 GMT

Hi Sam... Heres a link to the Acer website

http://secure3.tx.acer.com/VistaDownloads/AcerSeries.aspx

you can select Aspire 5670 from the drop down menu to get updated downloads like BIOS updates and drivers. That link is for the USA, if your in Europe, the european acer link is as follows:

http://support.acer-euro.com/

Remember to back up all your files before upgrading, Good luck.

re: Windows Vista Family Discount Program concludes at month's end

Nick White — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 20:32:37 GMT

Hey Sam: we're not the best place for you to seek technical product assistance -- I'd suggest visiting the public newsgroups to look for answers there. However, your devices are likely in need of updated drivers, so check Windows Update for new drivers from the manufacturers being released via MS, and if those are not available, then I'd suggest visiting the manufacturers' websites. Hope this helps.

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Sam — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 21:09:21 GMT

Sam here, I have a Windows Vista Premium Ready Computer (bought Oct, 2006 laptop) Aspire 5670! That when I tried to Load Vista I found hardware Incompatabilites, Like my monitor, Audio & Video would not work! So why should I use Vista?

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Watzman — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 21:43:04 GMT

I think discontining this was a mistake also. Not only might I have bought two copies of Home Premium, I might have bought Ultimate just to enable me to do it. As of now, I'm sticking with XP and not using Vista at all, and there isn't much incentive to move to Vista at this time.

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Watzman — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 21:43:03 GMT

Vista Family Discount Ends Tonight

theapp.net — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 22:36:22 GMT

Back when Windows Vista was released Microsoft responded to screaming from it's end users by allowing you to purchase two additional Vista Home Premium licenses for $50 apiece when you bought Vista Ultimate. That program ends tonight at 11:59PM...

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newscientist2000 — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 22:29:49 GMT

Hopefully deals like these will run in the future to, this was a great deal for those who got in on it.

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wombatmk — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 18:31:26 GMT

This really does stink. I have bought nearly every new MS OS since 95. I put off buying Vista here in the UK figuring that the family discount would be extended worldwide after the trial. I have 3 PC's and there is not a cat in hells chance I will fork out for 3 retail copies. So I guess thats bye bye for to Vista for me. I guess I should start looking at the alternatives (Apple??). MS should start thinking of customer loyalty, it's not like anyone is singing the praises of Vista from the rooftops.

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jtbryant@gmail.com — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 07:39:51 GMT

This does stink - I purchased a new Dell with Vista, only to find out the discount does not apply to me anyway. Why did I pay extra for Ultimate? I haven't seen anything in it I couldn't live without. I was going to upgrade another machine with the Home Premium or whatever, and put a tuner card in and hook it up to my HD big screen TV - nope. Sorry, if Microsoft is going to do that, be ready for people to load up other computers in their house with Linux (Ubuntu) with MythTV. I'll pay $30 to $50 to upgrade my other Xp machines to Vista, it's worth that to be legal, and have the same desktop everywhere. But why would I pay more than that when all I need is an OS that's going to run a browser, get me to Google's new office suite, and allow me to archive/watch video?

Make the upgrade require that all machines are on the same network if you're worried about theft. Make it activate through the Vista Ultimate machine or whatever. Vista/Word/Excel and probably Powerpoint should be packaged somehow for folks with multiple computers in the house. I've got five, plus two laptops, about to be three. I can't afford to keep them all upgraded and loaded with Office - my kids computers will be Linux and Open Office - and there are probably other parents that will go the same way - does Microsoft want the next generation growing up on Linux and Open Office? That's a quick way to kill you're company. Schools are already taking older PC's and loading up Edubuntu and Open Office to have more computer labs. We're recycling 20 '98 machines next month with Edubuntu to put in our libraries at the school. The kids are getting comfortable with Linux, and our programming teacher teaches off them because the tools are free. As software packages and applications go web based, there just won't be a good reason for even businesses to run the Windows OS.