That sounds pretty cheap. What were the upgrade prices in the past? I've never upgraded Windows on a PC and definitely won't this time.
The best I ever saw was the "Ultimate Steal" education deals which were $69.99 for the Ultimate editions. This has to be the long-awaited response to Apple offering their upgrades at $29.99. Hell this is so cheap I may just upgrade my bootcamp XP Pro installation to Windows 8. And I hardly ever use the XP Pro installation. You never know when you'll need the Windows platform.
I think this has more to do with moving the corporate herd off of XP so they can stop supporting dinosaurs.
They're making the upgrade really cheap hoping users rush over, then they're making the downgrade package (back to Win7) really expensive - that's how they're gonna rack up the cash.
I'll be picking up a copy for $39.99. I have used it a little bit already at work, and don't think it will be that big a deal adjusting at home.
My friend wants to know if he can use this upgrade even though his windows 7 is not "genuine"? I couldn't answer that question myself so I turn to the all knowing CFers
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows/buy?ocid=GA8_O_WOL_DIS_ShopHP_FPP_Light gonna try it out for 40 bucks. backed up my current setup to an external drive.
I'll be interested to know what people* think about it when they're using non-touchscreen monitors. *Everyday people, not reviewers on tech websites.
I have had the Professional copy for about two months now. I got it from DreamSpark for one of my graduate courses. The only thing different is the Start Menu interface. The Desktop is the same. In terms of the program delivery, it is probably the most accurate initial offering Microsoft has ever put out. I am quite impressed!
It's not too bad. But, honestly doesn't make all that much sense....the layout...when you don't have a touch screen. Those laptops where the touch screen rotates to make it into a tablet are awesome with this OS.
I am going to give it a few days but this new "desktop = an app" sh** is driving me fking crazy. It's like they converted the Start button into an OS on its own just so I can install some half a**ed apps on there. I am on a freaking desktop computer! I want to run the full apps without this confusing mess. I really hope people get used to this..or this is about to get ugly.
All I have to say is I predicted this and was lambasted. It just didn't look right from the beginning.
So I've been reading some windows 8 tech blogs, and it occurs to me that windows 8 (on a desktop) really is going to require you to buy a "touch mouse" such as this one: <iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/wLkHMzjKkjI" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> A lot of the reviews of this product for the desktop are based on a traditional mouse which I think probably does the product a disservice. Secondly, I haven't read about it yet, but if microsoft allows product manufactures to hack the os like android in an open source format for the appstore, I could see an app coming out that would make windows 8 an unbelievable product and certainly more efficient.
Despite what I said just two posts up, this product alone makes me want to get windows 8. This touch mouse looks freakin awesome and so intuitive. <iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/_CrKTiGj5ac" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
Again, the more I read about windows 8, and listen to tech commentators about it, I still don't think people are "getting it." I hear one guy say that it is "buggy" and it is the "vista" version of windows live tiles, while others, such as http://www.pcworld.com/article/2013139/windows-8-raises-the-bar-for-pc-security.html which say that it is the most secure windows operating system. Also, a lot of people that are raising complaints about this are doing so without the proper mouse for the job, which to me, raises the question of why are they are even reviewing the product in the first place. Saying it sucks because the mouse don't work well, is stupid. That is why I think this product is actually going to gain in support down the line when people actually understand HOW to use it. I don't believe this is a vista version of windows.
Check this out: Hyper-V is the ****. If you purchase the pro pack you get Virtualize with Client Hyper-V which means that if you want to run a virtual windows 7 deskstop, along with say an apache server (or, say a linux desktop) or even windws 8 inside windows 8, this is possible.
http://www.extremetech.com/computing/95339-windows-8-will-feature-hyper-v-guest-os-machine-virtualization
Been using the RTM for the past month and I think it's worth the upgrade just for the boot time improvement. Everyone is focused on the start menu and rightfully so. While I could have chosen to get use to it, I didn't like the break in user experience so I'm using this instead: http://classicshell.sourceforge.net/ Since running it, I've only gone to the Metro screen a few times to check out the Windows Store for any new apps. My experience now is exactly like Windows 7, but with all of the under the hood inprovements. As for the touch environment, I've loaded it on an Acer W500 tablet and its solid on some underpowered specs. I can run Torchlight 2 and have it be playable which you can't do on any other OS. Unfortunately there is no in game touch support, so it's harder to play without an easy way to right click. Hopefully some software tweaks will comes out.
i might be wrong here but to put the computer in standby i have to go to the start menu, go to the top right corner to show the charms, the move down to pick settings, then click power, then click standby.. uh..
actually, I am sure that there is a keyboard shortcut, but your "frustration" with a simple process i think hinges on the fact that you are trying to do this with a traditional mouse. if you used a touch mouse, you slide your finger from the right edge of mouse to pull up charms, the click settings and standby.
