The Windows 7 Family Pack offer from Microsoft represented great value for users who needed more than one copy of Windows 7 - for $149.99 you got 3 copies of Windows 7 Home Premium. After noticing over the weekend that Windows 7 Family Pack copies were becoming hard to find, Microsoft have formally pulled the offer and visitors to the US Microsoft Family Pack website are presented with the message “The Windows 7 Family Pack Offer has ended”.
The situation seems to be different in the UK, where sites are still advertising the Windows 7 Family Pack. It’s still being promoted on the UK Microsoft site:
and is still available for sale at Amazon UK:
That’s not to say that the Windows 7 Family Pack offer won’t be pulled in the UK soon, if you are planning on buying Windows 7 I’d do so now to save money.
Microsoft’s decision to pull the offer could be because Windows 7 sales are naturally strong and further incentives are not needed. Although pulling the offer before Christmas could be seen as Grinchism, the Christmas peak buying season has already been and gone in November, so if that were Microsoft’s intention they would have pulled the offer last month.
What this does indicate is that Microsoft won’t be doing any Windows 7 promotions anytime soon.
