Upgrade to Windows 8 Pro for only $39.99!

[kedawa]

I had to put off my install until I got done work this evening because it took all night to torrent the 64bit install ISO, but I'm pleased to say that it worked without a hitch.
Even though it's an upgrade, I'm pretty sure the product key is from the same pool as the rest of the retail keys.  I did a clean install on my second hard drive so that I can dual boot with my old Vista install.

[kedawa]

Why? I  have a copy of Vista I've retired.
Tired of it crashing.

I have it set up exactly the way I want, it's on a separate hard drive, and it has never crashed in all the years since I've been using it.
I'm not retiring it until I have Windows 8 fine-tuned the way I want with all of my software set up and working.

I also have about 30GB of stuff downloading via bittorrent that I don't feel like aborting.

[kedawa]

I honestly haven't had many problems with Vista (aside from bone-headed design decisions and questionable performance) since the first service pack.  It probably helps that I've disabled a lot of unnecessary services.

I also seem to have really good luck with bad operating systems.  Windows ME ran great for me for many years as well.

[kedawa]

They really should have forked the OS, with one version having only Metro UI (Windows Media Consumption Edition), and the other having the classic desktop (Windows Functional Edition).

[kedawa]

The Metro name was a code name during development.  The UI doesn't have a real name other than Windows 8.

Calling Windows 8 Metro is akin to calling Windows 7 Vienna or calling Windows XP Whistler...

Actually, Metro was the official name of the UI until MS got sued.