Vista Packaging - Your Votes Please ...

[a456]

... Second thoughts, don't bother.

Heralded across the net is Vista's innovative packing, for keeping your discs safe (http://windowsvistablog.com/photos/blog_photo_gallery/images/479307/original.aspx). It looks to me like an oversized plastic box circa 1980, the kind that tapes used to come in for the Commodore 64, I wish they'd copied Apple and gone for smaller boxes that are easier to recycle and take up less crate space - it makes financial and environmental sense, surely?

And as for 'style', I don't think it's worth commenting on.

 

[Steve Jobless]

i kind of like the style, although i doubt many people will buy the box versions but rather pc bundled versions. It does remind me of microsofts software boxes for apple though

 

[Eraserhead]

i kind of like the style, although i doubt many people will buy the box versions but rather pc bundled versions. It does remind me of microsofts software boxes for apple though

That's exactly what I though but less cool (though the MS:Mac boxes are very impractical.)

 

[Shadow]

Why have such a big box for such a small CD? I commend Apple's iLife, iWork and Mac OS X box designes.

 

[Queso]

They should get rid of the boxes and stick with the DVD style cases they always put inside. I don't see the point of having all that cardboard packaging around the smaller DVD case when the gap between is completely empty.

 

[PlaceofDis]

waste of materials. i agree on the DVD case.

 

[worriedmac]

It's not Vista, it's Office! Just thought I would comment as there are so many discussions of how windoze people are ignorant and don't know the difference between the different elements in the mac world.

I pride myself at knowing both worlds but still picking the mac.

 

[ljump12]

The reason its big packaging is becuase it forces more shelf space for it... Which will get people to see it.

Its why all boxes are big.

 

[jmarte]

Big Boxes = Overcompensation

 

[Steve1496]

I agree with others that they're too big, but the Vista Ultimate box is beautiful. Shot:
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/images/gallery/boxshots/web/WindowsVistaUltimate_web.jpg

 

[IJ Reilly]

The box looks great, but eventually you'll have to open it up.

 

[contoursvt]

The box looks great, but eventually you'll have to open it up.

Ya its a shame cracking open such a beautiful box but after its open, the fun begins. Cant wait. Wonder when the release date is now. Feb next year right?

 

[Eidorian]

It's a nice box. I love being able to sit my software boxes on the shelf. The new tough plastic DVD's over the cardboard ones.

 

[IJ Reilly]

Ya its a shame cracking open such a beautiful box but after its open, the fun begins. Cant wait. Wonder when the release date is now. Feb next year right?

Somewhere in the general 2007-08 timeframe.

 

[apfhex]

I agree with others that they're too big, but the Vista Ultimate box is beautiful. Shot:
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/images/gallery/boxshots/web/WindowsVistaUltimate_web.jpg

That's a surprisingly very very nice design. Well I guess you deserve nice packaging if you paid $400 for the Ultimate edition. I think the box /shape/ is kinda ugly in that picture. Does anyone know what the dimensions will be? if it's about the size of a DVD case then that might be OK.

 

[miniConvert]

I love the new range of packaging. I guess with all the delays to Vista and wotnot that the design team has had plenty of time to get these right

OS's are at the heart of our computing lives. I'm all for a pretty box if it makes the ride feel smoother for just a few more moments.

 

[auyongtc]

I agree with others that they're too big, but the Vista Ultimate box is beautiful. Shot:
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/images/gallery/boxshots/web/WindowsVistaUltimate_web.jpg

Anyone here think that the Windows logo with the reflective blue circle is not really matching in terms of the artwork? I swear I've seen Web 2.0 company logos look better.

 

[nplima]

Big Boxes = Overcompensation

bzzzt! Wrong! Big boxes are required for big EULA

 

[0098386]

sorta nice, but I'd prefer something plain. regular DVD box would suffice. Ah well.

 

[Swarmlord]

Now that they don't provide any documentation in software anymore, I like my software boxes to be no larger than a two disk DVD movie box.

 

[wmmk]

I love the new range of packaging. I guess with all the delays to Vista and wotnot that the design team has had plenty of time to get these right

OS's are at the heart of our computing lives. I'm all for a pretty box if it makes the ride feel smoother for just a few more moments.

geez! the wimdows media player 11 ad on that page looks so much like iTunes 7 it's not even funny. then on MS's page, thay have a little picture of that gorillaz album cover that was shown on all those pictures of the iPod. apparently redmond really did start their photocopiers. only a little too well.

 

[Markleshark]

Agree the ultimate is niceeeeee. However, I don't like the green they use for the Home versions...

 

[PlaceofDis]

its hard to tell from the pictures just how big they are, they very well could be DVD case sized in terms of height, with a bit more width to them, and in that case they are cool by me, but i somehow doubt it.