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Windows 7 Family Pack to be yanked December 31?
Microsoft launched the Windows 7 Family Pack last October, but supplies ran out less than two months later in early December. Redmond revived the special offer this September, just in time for back-to-school and holiday shopping, but the company didn't say how long it would be available.
With Windows 8 on track for a 2012 release, we're not sure if Microsoft will offer the Windows 7 Family Pack again toward the end of 2011. If you have a few friends or family members running a pre-Windows 7 operating system, be sure to should take advantage of the bundle before it's gone.
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Guest
on December 27, 2010 11:46 PM |
Wow, the digital crops must have failed this year leaving us with a world wide shortage of DVDs! Out of stock my foot. Just another typically lame unimaginative Microsoft marketing tactic. Hurry up everybody while supplies last! |
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Lurker101
on December 28, 2010 6:07 AM |
Why bother? Windows 8 will be out in a year. I'm sure the many still running XP will have no qualms about holding out till then. |
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Guest
on December 28, 2010 8:27 AM |
Windows 8 will be out in 2 years, work on your math, 1+1=2 |
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Vicenarian
on December 28, 2010 10:23 AM |
XP ftw! /cue vista/7 fanboys |
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Guest
on December 28, 2010 2:54 PM |
XP is still the best. Getting\setting Network stuff post-XP is a pain in the bummerinsky - what a mess. And reliable low latency audio is nigh impossible. Trading functional for surface gloss is not in my Book of Smarts. It's scary to think that my >9 year old XP OS can do pretty much everything faster, lighter and better than what MS has put out since. I can even make it look prettier with a bit of spit and polish. Only thing it's missing is uhh....umm....can't think of a single thing. Oh wait, 64-bit support for more than 3GB usable memory. Oh wait, I forgot. I RARELY need more memory than that and VM makes up for it in the those precious few moments that I do. |
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brucethetech
on December 28, 2010 8:02 PM |
XP is still the best....... Agreed but what if Chevy never released a new model bc the 2006 model was just fine. the market demanded another MS OS and though it wasnt necessary to ALL of us it was needed. |
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example1013
on December 29, 2010 2:52 PM |
Windows 7 does some stuff well. Nothing comes to mind right now, but I'm sure there's something... |
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captaincranky
on December 29, 2010 4:00 PM |
I can think of two big ones; Windows 7 does some stuff well. Nothing comes to mind right now, but I'm sure there's something... Windows 7 has made the 64 bit computing environment a practical reality for the PC. It has also simplified achieving true AHCI HDD operation, without the aggravation of a driver hunt and a floppy drive.
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arkantos
on December 29, 2010 7:20 PM |
xp will hold out for sometime, most games and softwares are layout in 64-bit versions. im also aware of that detected memory capacity issue. |
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Guest
on December 30, 2010 6:26 AM |
Finally. Watch out Ebay. Capitalist pig in motion. |
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lipe123
on December 31, 2010 1:58 PM |
Yea wow thanks for locking it down to US shipments only, f-ing tools. Why can US customers get it at 125$ and Canada has to pay 292.60$, really last I checked the exchange wasn't THAT bad. Honestly a really big fat F U Microsoft. |
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