Chris Szurgot's Blog

As see on Paul Thurott

Hmmm.... It does seem to be a bit restrictive for a lot of people, but it will work just fine for my household. I was starting to wonder how I was going to upgrade all the computers in my house. (4 active, one we're not sure what we're going to do with...)

Since it says you can do it off of an Ultimate Upgrade, that's $249 for the upgrade, plus another hundred for the Family Pack, so that's $349 for 3 copies of ultimate. Woohoo!

(The last machine is an older tablet that I don't use too much, so it doesn't actually need to be updated.)

This does alleviate one real concern I have when I was trying to figure out licensing issues. One of the machines that will be upgraded is essentially a headless Media Center. Once installed, I connect to it through the XBox 360 or Remote Desktop. For that machine, Home Premium is great except for that lack of Remote Desktop, and I was having a hard time justifying $100 (cost difference between Premium and Ultimate) just for Remote Capabilities. Now I don't have too.

Can't wait for Jan 30th so I can spend some money. <grin>

Also, I'm going to the launch event in DC on the 30th, so that'll be pretty cool.