Windows 8 Support Will End in Two Years

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Which is recommended
 


How is it like trading AutoCAD for sketchup? I am in IT and this is an insult. They are not releasing it for servers. It is just server 2012. Get your facts straight before bashing.
 


Exactly. Also notice this is the same way apple is doing updates to OSX. Releasing updates through their app store. I think Microsoft is on to something here. Maybe doing away with "service packs"?
 
I have a small issue with the "Believe it or not, people and businesses still use these decrepit products" comment. I am a manager for a restaurant group with over six locations all of which have a minimum of 8 POS terminals all of which run XP. Granted our desktops run Win 7 but the touchscreen terminals have no use for a modern OS seeing they only have one purpose. Long story short we now have to buy 50 plus more copies of a new windows operating systems, which may not be supported by some of our older POS terminals, that are currently working perfectly fine. It's a low blow to a small business.
 
FLUSTERED?
Would you be?

Moving to Windows 8.1 pro preview was not worth the effort; as the problem is Microsoft continually lie via their support staff; in that I went to system properties and updated my PRODUCT CODE on the day Windows 8.1 became LIVE; with a genuinne Amazon Windows 8 Pro key (from a sealed DVD Disc set), which changed the `Product I.D` in the System window, but the program reamins as PREVIEW edition and REFUSES to update to my new code and it will not let me buy media player or anything to update.

I have spent 200 hours putting all my software together on this new build PC (almost 2 months ago) on four hard drives and all my sites and games and documents and passwords and programs and UPDATES by the hundred, and Microsoft tell me to do this then tell me to do that and leave me finding out it doesn`t work, time after time after time after time; and subsequently they take over my PC and root around remotely and tell me I can update then tell me I cant and then make me wait days and then fail to call back when they say they will `with updated information` and/or "a way to fix it", but after a hundred hours of trying every which way (downloading DVD`s of w8.1 in differnet languages and burning them to disc and trying the re-install with "SAVE YOUR PROGRAMS AND DOCUMENTS OPTION", but all of which fail.

Basically its a garbage thing they do by Not putting a MESSAGE on the SYSTEM PROPERTIES "Change my Product Code" area with a "WARNING- DO NOT PUT IN A WINDOWS 8 PRO KEYCODE HERE".

I asked them to put that warning there; as it seems that I may have to wipe my hard drive/s and start from scratch.

Only another hundred hours work to do. but I will see when they ring back in two days (if they are not slithering with their words again).

Maybe it is to do with the fact that my Win8 Pro disc is Japanese (the wife) and the preview version is English; but they keep saying different things about that.

 


You were not paying attention. It was known from the beginning of the preview period that people who installed the preview would not be able to update to the release version without reinstalling all their programs. That is why I skipped the preview entirely and waited for the release version. Given that knowledge it was inappropriate to assume that you could just put in your keycode and turn the preview into the release version.
 

It looks like You weren't paying attention.
1) Do you read every word of every thing that is written for every piece of software you have ever used on a PC ? Can you say without lying ?
2) After installing I did read somewhere in the millions of views and data that you WOULD be able to use your Win 8 Pro code on the preview update.
3) The aforementioned should not have confused Microsoft staff for over a week who spent hours on my PC trying to do just that. So, if Microsoft staff don't know, then why should the public ?
4) The aforementioned should not detract from the fact that there was no warning on the update your Code in System. I just followed the instructions that were up to date. You do know things change ?
5) I even gave Microsoft the Useful suggestion that they put a Message in System at CODE change; but they still gave me the middle finger for trying to help the customer with CURRENT information.

Ungrateful wretches in a dying company ?


 
Unfortunatly, Windows 8.1 no longer supports my ATI X-1300 video card, while plain 8 did. I just restored my Windows 8 system partition backup today, and hope I'll still be able to use it for some time.
 
Windows 8 is garbage anyway. I'm glad I still use Windows 7 and most likely will until Windows 9 comes out. Even then, I'll wait and see. When will people start to understand that M$ NEVER does anything right the first time and being an early adopter is nothing but a big headache.
 
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