Family friendly Windows 7 tips up for Europe
MICROSOFT HAS ANNOUNCED it will be selling its Windows 7 Family pack to European punters, after changing its mind on whether or not to include Internet Explorer in the box within the EU.
In a blog post by French DJ-sounding keyboard tapper Brandon LeBlanc, the firm mentioned its to-ing and fro-ing with the EU Competition Commission over whether it might bundle Internet Exploder in Windows 7.
Having settled on offering purchasers the choice of a handful of browsers to use at install time, Microsoft is confident that it won't have to offer the unappealing E-version, which was to come with no browser at all, when it kicks off sales of its latest Windows Vista Service Pack on 22nd October. However the Windows 7 N-version, which does not include a copy of the Vole's Windows Media Player, will still be made available.
LeBlanc said, "We are now able to have an upgrade version of Windows 7 available at launch. We will no longer offer E versions of Windows 7 in retail, OEM or other channels. European Economic Community countries will have the same version of Windows 7 as the rest of the world."
The Family Pack option gives buyers multiple licences for separate machines they may have laying around their homes. The early-bird cheap price of £150 is good for a limited time only, and the maximum number of machines the Family Pack can be installed on is limited to three. µ
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Then I'll be 2 installations short... At least. I guess 5 is the right number, as Mac OSX.
I do not know what OS X has to do in this thread about Win 7, but you have obviously paid for 5 rediculously overpriced computers that subsidize the OS's :)
Imagine a first-time computer user faced with a screen allowing he or she to choose a browser.
- Microsoft Internet Explorer
- Mozilla Firefox
- Google Chrome
- Apple Safari
- Operasoftware Opera Browser
Which is he/she going to pick? Obviously the one that works for the "internet" not these weirdly named browsers that may or may not be for browsing collections of opera music. It reminds me of the whacky names some open source software organizations choose for their product. Even Ubuntu's package manager--the portal to adding other software to Ubuntu--has some oddball name whose function is not readily apparent.
I guess it does pay to have proper branding.
BB, you probably use that same Internet Explorer, don't you?
By your idea of "proper branding", anything related to Internet should have Internet in its name.