Windows 7 Family Pack (Windows 7 Home Premium 3 users)

Windows 7 Family Pack allows you to upgrade up to three PCs running Windows XP or Windows Vista® to Windows 7 Home Premium. The package contains one disc with a license key that you can use on up to three machines in your household. The disc includes both 32- and 64-bit versions of Windows 7 Home Premium—you can choose one or the other for all three PCs.

A great entertainment experience on your PC.

Enjoy your media from just about anywhere. Record your favourite programmes** and take them with you, along with your music, videos, and photos. Share media around your home. Or, stream everything from your home PC to your laptop. With Windows 7 Home Premium, you can enjoy all your entertainment, just about anywhere.

Windows 7 can make the things you do every day easier, with fewer clicks, fast searching, easy browsing, and simple ways to connect - now there's less between you and what you want to do. And when you've got more than one PC running Windows 7, it's a snap to set up a HomeGroup to share your files. Then all your family can share files or use a printer from anywhere in the house online with just a few clicks.

Take a look at these highlighted features in Windows 7 Home Premium Upgrade Family Pack:

- Upgrade up to three PCs running XP and Vista to Windows 7

- Package contains one disc with a license key that can be entered on as many as three machines

- Enjoy a PC that works the way you want it to with better support for today's technologies, like 64-bit PC hardware and memory

- Use HomeGroup to connect all your PCs running Windows 7 to a single printer

- Find files quickly, compare documents side-by-side, or open your favourite file with just two clicks

- Pause, rewind, and record Freeview TV, or use Windows Touch to interact with your PC in new ways***

- Use Windows Media Player to stream music files on any compatible device connected to your home network

- Easily change backgrounds, window colours, and sounds to reflect your personal style

- Use Windows Search from the Start menu to quickly locate and open virtually any file on your PC—from documents to emails to songs—just by typing a word or two

- Pin programs to the taskbar and rearrange the icons on the taskbar just by clicking and dragging

Before you buy or install Windows 7 on your PC:

Understand the upgrade process for your PC

Moving to Windows 7 Home Premium from Windows Vista Home Basic or Home Premium qualifies as an upgrade. All other paths, including a move from a 64-bit edition of Windows Vista to a 32-bit edition of Windows 7, require a more detailed re-installation process.

Determine if 32 or 64-bit is right for you

Each package contains two disks: one with the 32-bit edition and one with the 64-bit edition of Windows 7. Please make sure you know which to install on your PC. The benefits of 64-bit are most apparent when you have a large amount of random access memory (RAM) installed on your computer, typically 4 GB of RAM or more. In such cases, because a 64-bit operating system can handle large amounts of memory more efficiently than a 32-bit operating system can, a 64-bit system can be more responsive when running several programs at the same time and switching between them frequently. Please note: if you are presently running 64-bit software on a PC running a 64-bit edition of Windows Vista and you move to a 32-bit edition of Windows 7, your 64-bit software may no longer work.