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Re: Upgrade to Windows 8 Pro for only $39.99!
« on: July 03, 2012, 06:47:20 PM »
Some system sellers are offering a free coupon as well if you buy a Win7 system now. I saw a few of those promotions as I was recently shopping for a laptop.

And I observe the following pattern as far back as my experience with MS Windows goes:

98SE good
ME BAD
XP good
Vista BAD
7 good
8 ...
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Re: Upgrade to Windows 8 Pro for only $39.99!
« Reply #1 on: October 31, 2012, 11:04:43 PM »
Quote from: tone007;698856
Not even Windows 3.1 was this inexpensive!

http://windowsteamblog.com/windows/b/bloggingwindows/archive/2012/07/02/upgrade-to-windows-8-pro-for-39-99.aspx

I wonder how it'll sell.  I think the low price will make it move.


For $40, what the heck, even if I'm not sure I'll use it. Though my first attempt to install (in a virtual machine using VirtualBox), it failed and rolled back to Win7. Eh...
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