It's a big week for Windows 7 -- shortly before revealing its absurdly nice pricing schemes and pre-order steals, Microsoft lifted the curtain on the packaging for the new operating system. If you have packaging and/or environment fetishes like we do, this is a particularly enjoyable moment.

As with the OS itself, they listened to what customers wanted, using this to determine how the boxes and casing would look, and what they came back with was essentially this: clean and simple. As you can see below, each edition's colour makes it easy to differentiate which edition is which, even without reading the box.

As an added bonus, customers can purchase Windows 7 without worrying about any great environmental impact: the case (pictured at top) is light and recyclable, the packaging itself has a 37% weight reduction, and its econometrics score is up 50% over Vista.