The Windows Vista Team Blog just announced what the packaging will look like for retail copies of Windows Vista and Office 2007. I like all of the rounded corners because it gives it a unique look that goes beyond the classic box. Somehow The Vista Team Blog came up with a very unique way of making it sound like the packaging alone is worth hundreds of dollars. Shall we see how many words you can use describe a package:
Designed to be user-friendly, the new packaging is a small, hard, plastic container that’s designed to protect the software inside for life-long use. It provides a convenient and attractive place for you to permanently store both discs and documentation.
The new design will provide the strength, dimensional stability and impact resistance required when packaging software today.
I am in no way making fun of them for the description…I just have no clue how Nick came up with so many different adjectives to describe the packaging! Look back at the keywords that I highlighted and maybe you’ll agree that it sounds like a commercial for a new car. 
Enormous pictures of the packaging can be found at the official blog post.
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As Paul Thurrott points out here are the rest of the Vista packages. You can tell that Ultimate is definitely geared towards gamers.
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Well, no wonder why it is so expensive!
Life long use? Since when is Vista going to be lifetime use?
And I thought the XP disc I got that was sitting on a piece of cardboard and wrapped in plastic was good enough. This new packaging will make my unwrapping experience so much better. Thanks Microsoft!
It’s not a book your gonna take off the shelf and read every day or week or month… And it’s not the “Bible”…
It’s basically a waste of resources that could be used for other things…
Reminds me of the packaging in the 90’s. This is right-up there with putting audio CDs in a box.
Todd Bishop has a picture of the packaging for Vista Ultimate on his blog.
Nice find. That article also links to Paul Thurrott’s site who has all of the different Vista versions.
Gizmodo has all the Vista versions.
I actually can’t get Gizmodo to load the image, but I assume it is the same thing that I just added to the post?
It took a long time to get up…but now it is working fine. They have Vista Business and Home Premium along with the cool looking Vista Ultimate.