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Microsoft: buy Windows 7, get a free portable 500GB HDD
Separately, the Microsoft Store is offering a $150 discount on select PCs to those who purchase the $150 Windows 7 Family Pack. The pack lets you upgrade three PCs to Windows 7 Home Premium, but Microsoft only makes it available for limited amounts of time.
Microsoft also announced today that the Windows 7 Family Pack is now available (or will be in the coming weeks) in 46 countries: Australia, Austria, Bahrain, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Korea, Kuwait, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Oman, Portugal, Qatar, Romania, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, UK, Ukraine, and the United Arab Emirates.
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User Comments (49)
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klepto12
on October 28, 2010 8:57 PM |
Hmmm free hard drive huh sounds like a good way to bring in new customers alot of people still have less space on there computers than this 500GB HD. |
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KG363
on October 28, 2010 9:38 PM |
500GB? That's quite a deal |
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crzydave
on October 28, 2010 9:40 PM |
the question is it 7200 rpm? |
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Cryptopsy
on October 28, 2010 10:05 PM |
Oh great news, I was planning to buy Windows 7 this weekend |
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mattfrompa
on October 28, 2010 10:37 PM |
how many people need Professional? join the domain at your house i suppose? lol |
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jazboy
on October 28, 2010 11:52 PM |
This is good deal. But what about those people who were one of those people ppl who tried it first. I am die hard fan of window and upgraded my OS from Vista to windows 7 ultimate, as soon as it came to market. But with this i don't know how should i feel. As a consolation i can just think that i got almost one year extra to use it compare to people who are going to buy now. |
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LinkedKube
on October 28, 2010 11:57 PM |
These drives come with 2 oompaloompa's spinning your 500gb platter at a whopping 5rpm. |
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Malner
on October 29, 2010 1:06 AM |
Slovenia is in EU and we can`t buy Windows 7 Family Pack. Why are we left behind? |
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highlander84
on October 29, 2010 1:24 AM |
Good way to get people to buy it. For me a 500Gb is nothing fancy. But its almost enough reason to get me to buy it... Then again I like XP more than a free 500BG HD. Ill stick with what I have |
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sMILEY4ever
on October 29, 2010 1:53 AM |
malner said: Slovenia is in EU and we can`t buy Windows 7 Family Pack. Why are we left behind? You can either move to another country or just wait some more. The free 500GB is a good move. |
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Razerblade
on October 29, 2010 2:23 AM |
What about the free hard drive in the EU? Microsoft have had a good idea but think of how many people have already bought windows 7! Wish they had done this at release as I would have gone for that! |
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Brodieeee
on October 29, 2010 3:04 AM |
Already got Win7 |
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uttaradhaka
on October 29, 2010 3:48 AM |
I thinks a professional is about 50 bucks more expensive than the Home Premium. So, even if I was a home user, I would spend the extra 50 bucks and get the professional. Come on, 50 dollars for a 500 GB hard disk? Thats awesome. Microsoft is looking to accelerate the sails of Windows 7 right now, because there are only two years left until Windows 8. And the sooner people buy Windows 7, the sooner they'll jump ship with windows 8. I'll stick to Windows 7 though, unless Windows 8 is something special. |
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Guest
on October 29, 2010 4:14 AM |
haha...seagate |
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Rage_3K_Moiz
on October 29, 2010 4:43 AM |
Nice! First the "$30 Home Premium for students" deal, and now this! |
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Recipe7
on October 29, 2010 4:53 AM |
This would be a great deal if it was just for plain old Windows 7, not the Professional version. Non-the-less, there will be a lot of happy upgraders |
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St1ckM4n
on October 29, 2010 5:20 AM |
Nice deal. But I wish the student deals came back. |
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brianmsu
on October 29, 2010 7:52 AM |
this would definitely get me to buy windows7 if i didn't already have it. i think its a great move, people love their portable hard drives... |
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Kibaruk
on October 29, 2010 8:06 AM |
Crap... I will just spend less than half of it and get a 500gb hdd myself :P |
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tehbanz
on October 29, 2010 8:06 AM |
Microsoft should go back and give all it's loyal users who switched on day 1 500 gb externals too |
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flocka
on October 29, 2010 8:47 AM |
why would you even want "home" version..... |
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treeski
on October 29, 2010 8:51 AM |
This is a sweet deal. I've been trying to find someone to take advantage of it, but most people I know have already upgrade or *gasp* are Mac users |
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Neojt
on October 29, 2010 9:06 AM |
The problem is that its an upgrade(i can live with that) and of course NOT AVAILABLE TO CANADIANS again.... |
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ional10
on October 29, 2010 9:40 AM |
That's not a bad deal at all! However, if there are any uni students like myself, you can buy the win 7 professional upgrade version for 30usd!! Nevertheless, a free portable hdd would be really useful. I'm hoping it's 7200rpm, rather than a 5400rpm one =D |
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peteyhawkins
on October 29, 2010 9:40 AM |
Free 500gb is cool although i think the majority of people would just like $60 off the price instead? I've no longer to pay for windows software since upgrading to a macbook pro last week, it feels good that when os x lion is released it will only cost me like £30-40 |
Free portable HDD for the win!
Might have to talk someone into buying it and ask kindly for the HDD 
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