Upgrade to Windows 8 Pro for only $39.99!

[SamuraiCrow]

The memory handling of DLLs is shared like the AmigaOS shared libraries.  But other than that, the upgrade is overpriced.  It should have been a service pack for Win7 instead.

[adonay]

Am i the only person that actually think metro is an improvement over that silly start meny. i bought 2 versions of win 8 and so far i am very happy.

Its very fast on my old Panasonic toughbook with touchscreen .
Metro has a learning curve once you know it well you can use it quite efficiently .

[SamuraiCrow]

Am i the only person that actually think metro is an improvement over that silly start menu.[sic]

Probably, although I think the toolbars used on the Amiga are pretty good.  Or at least the ones on OS 4, AROS and MorphOS.  3.9's toolbar is pretty sad.

[som99]

Just some quick facts for anyone who want to buy W8 cheep and do not have Windows 7.

If you install a pirated version of Windows 7 that uses SLIC injection to pass WGA checks you can download and run the "Windows 8 Pro Upgrade Assistant" and buy the upgrade license for 39.99$, then burn the ISO and bam you got a full version of W8 without owning Windows 7.

I do not use Windows 8 but if anyone want Windows 8 cheep this is the way to go.

You can even get Windows 8 for 15$, just go to the upgrade site for people who bough a W7 computer the past 2 months https://www.windowsupgradeoffer.com/ enter bogus purchase dates within 2 months and you get the 15$ code.

So W8 for 15$ from pirated Windows 7 is cheep, I have done this just to test if it works and it does.

First time ever I payed for any M$ software, but had to to see if this worked.

[SysAdmin]

Am i the only person that actually think metro is an improvement over that silly start meny. i bought 2 versions of win 8 and so far i am very happy.

Its very fast on my old Panasonic toughbook with touchscreen .
Metro has a learning curve once you know it well you can use it quite efficiently .

Yes, you are the only person in the world that likes it.

[som99]

Works like a charm by faking recent W7 computer purchase and pirated w7.

W8 for 139 SEK = 20.58$ so fair price, even if I won't use it.
I will install it on a virtual machine just to try the full version out.

[runequester]

"We love windows, but not enough to pay for it" ;0

[som99]

"We love windows, but not enough to pay for it" ;0

I payed 20$ without need for it

[kedawa]

Will this method allow you to do a clean install?

[som99]

Will this method allow you to do a clean install?

Yepp, you get a product key and a ISO, burn the ISO (or use a flash-drive) and you can do a clean install, I tried on a unused PC and worked without problems on blank drive.

[kedawa]

So what did you enter as your pc model etc. on the form?
Was it just made up, or did you find some actual make and model that comes with windows 7?

[som99]

So what did you enter as your pc model etc. on the form?
Was it just made up, or did you find some actual make and model that comes with windows 7?

I did pick "Other" and wrote a real online PC hardware store wrote my real name/address/mail etc. I did pick other to avoid OS branding (don't know if W8 does that but I did not want to risk it).

At model I just wrote 2600K as that is my main PC Workstations CPU, I think you can write anything tho

[kedawa]

I'm seriously thinking about doing this, but I want to make sure I can get 64bit home premium.
I currently have Vista 32bit installed, and I'd rather not go through the hassle of pirating/installing 7 at all.
Is it actually necessary at any stage to be running 7?

[Iggy]

Yes, you are the only person in the world that likes it.

@adonay

Yes, seconded, you are the only one that likes this interface.

[kedawa]

So I just bought it from my vista machine and got the discount with no issue.
I'm not really looking forward to wrestling with the new interface, but for ~$17CDN, I won't complain.
I figure I may as well dive in and learn what I can before my relatives start calling me for Windows 8 support, which they inevitably will.

[som99]

So I just bought it from my vista machine and got the discount with no issue.
I'm not really looking forward to wrestling with the new interface, but for ~$17CDN, I won't complain.
I figure I may as well dive in and learn what I can before my relatives start calling me for Windows 8 support, which they inevitably will.

In my opinion W8 is not usable without "classic shell"
http://classicshell.sourceforge.net/


So if you decide you want to use W8 I suggest you install classic shell, for me it was utter crap without it.