Windows 8 Offer!

This seems worth a share...

Saturday, June 2, 2012 by RedneckDude | Discussion: Personal Computing

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Jafo
Reply #1 Saturday, June 2, 2012 12:14 PM

14.99 for Win8?

To quote from the movie 'The Castle'....."tell 'em they're dreamin' "

Disturbedcomputer
Reply #2 Saturday, June 2, 2012 12:23 PM

what ???

theirs No poor schmuck on WC...... This there?

 

 

 

 

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Savyg
Reply #3 Saturday, June 2, 2012 1:17 PM

14.99 for Win8?

To quote from the movie 'The Castle'....."tell 'em they're dreamin' "

It's actually a MS offer last I heard.  Instead of giving people the free upgrade in advance they're making it a 'bonus offer.'

Which definitely makes sense for them especially given how popular 7 is and 8 so far isn't.

Wizard1956
Reply #4 Saturday, June 2, 2012 1:46 PM

They would have to pay me a lot more than $14.99 to switch from Windows 7.

DrJBHL
Reply #5 Saturday, June 2, 2012 2:09 PM

That's the standard upgrade 7 to 8... and not clear is 'clean' install. TBNT.

Uvah
Reply #6 Saturday, June 2, 2012 2:11 PM

Is $15.01 enough? It might be all they can afford if Win8 goes poof!

RedneckDude
Reply #7 Saturday, June 2, 2012 3:34 PM

Disturbedcomputer
what ???

theirs No poor schmuck on WC

Anyone who would pay for Windows 8 may fit the description.....lol. I'm with Doc...TBNT.

alaknebs
Reply #8 Saturday, June 2, 2012 3:39 PM

aren't they usually "free" closer to the time?

DrJBHL
Reply #9 Saturday, June 2, 2012 5:52 PM

alaknebs
aren't they usually "free" closer to the time?

That was Zen. This is Tao.

lhetre
Reply #10 Saturday, June 2, 2012 6:45 PM

Already Windows 8 ? I must have overslept

DaveRI
Reply #11 Saturday, June 2, 2012 7:00 PM

Well, now maybe if they sold me Windows8 for $14.99 and gave me the new hardware, I might at least think about it...

Savyg
Reply #12 Saturday, June 2, 2012 7:31 PM

Windows 8 is more efficient than 7, so why would you need new hardware?  Still on XP?

Skarny
Reply #13 Saturday, June 2, 2012 7:53 PM

Wow, you guys are totally behind using Windows 7, that's 91 versions behind me! I've been using Windows 98 for ages, haven't seen a reason yet to update to Windows 2000, waiting for Windows 2013.

LittleBearJason
Reply #14 Saturday, June 2, 2012 9:40 PM

I remember being an early adopter of Windows XP. I was running a P3 733 with 1GB of Ram, It ran really good. There was lots of backlash because of stability issues, but Microsoft really worked hard to iron them out.

 

With Windows 8 coming out, it feels like Vista, or Windows ME, ALL OVER AGAIN! While Stardock has solved the start menu issue in Windows 8 its annoying that users have to do a workaround on Windows 8 just to get the desktop feel side of things back again. Simply put, you don't release a tablet style OS on a casual type environment the desktop or laptop.

DaveRI
Reply #15 Saturday, June 2, 2012 10:13 PM

Still on XP?

Ya - but what I was really saying is that they would have to give me a new machine to even get me interested in Win8, regardless of what kind of hardware I have at the moment.   I keep seeing it and I just can't get interested in it, looks like a screen full of banner ads to me.

Sinperium
Reply #16 Saturday, June 2, 2012 11:13 PM

I dunno--that seems like about what Windows 8 is worth...$14.99.

But they should throw the computer in for free with it to really make it worthwhile.

Disturbedcomputer
Reply #17 Saturday, June 2, 2012 11:45 PM

RedneckDude
I'm with Doc...TBNT.

me 3 Not a schmuck here.  FNBT

starkers
Reply #18 Sunday, June 3, 2012 1:46 AM

Disturbedcomputer
me 3 Not a schmuck here. FNBT

For me it's NFLOMR [Not Fucken Likely On My Rig]....

IHTMRFMH [I Have Too Much Respect For My Hardware]

Zeta1127
Reply #19 Sunday, June 3, 2012 2:58 AM

I serious need to get a new computer, something to handle recent and new games, but Microsoft couldn't pay me enough to get Metro 8, because it simply isn't a desktop OS. I will get Windows 7 long before I ever even consider Metro 8 at this point.

2of3
Reply #20 Sunday, June 3, 2012 8:00 AM

The word "upgrade" should always be spelled with quotes when talking about Win8.

 

 

 

"Upgrade"

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