Windows 8 Upgrades Will Get More Expensive in February

[dgriffs]

Its funny how much butthurt there is in this comments sections. People are having their posts hidden for expressing that they don't mind windows 8 after getting used it. Everyone has their preference - there is no right or wrong. Sounds like most of you avoid change like the plague.

 

[Northwestern]

I do not like Windows 8 in my house.
I do not like Windows 8 with my mouse.
I do not like it here or there.
I do not like it anywhere!
I do not like Windows 8.
I do not like it, Customer-I-am.

 

[dimar]

I think the best way we can vote is by installing a 3rd party start button such as classic shell, and completely disabling metro interface. The OS itself is snappier than win7. I hated win7 start button anyway and have CS installed on every win7 machine.

 

[alphaproject]

man...guys...Win8 has it improvements. I have it on my GF's laptop and it really seems pretty much the same....once yuo install the free windows classic shell, blam, back to normal. There are a few things that are wierd, but I'm pretty much used to it after 1 week of messing around and it feels just like 7 to me now. Certain things might not work at the moment that will work in 7, but that for the torrent users, not the mainstream guys.

I also believe it has it's own zip program built in, at least I don't remember installing winrar...hmmm.

The things that are better may not be worth it but there are a few things on Win 7 64-bit that I hate that Win 8 doesn't seem to suffer from. The main one, and I've seen others have this problem. When using a USB stick flash drive...if it's a slow POS, it literally locks up the whole PC until it's done writing to that drive. Win 8 doesn't suffer that fate. Other than that...and the metro UI, there isn't much differences. I don't like the XBOX live crud... plus...the sign in is your email...??? I think that's strange. There are trade offs.... but it's not the POS everyone says...even I thought the same, but thanks to classic shell...those are mostly gone. No way I'd pay $100 for it though, just saying. We got it free with the laptop.

 

[bigirishman]

I dont see why people are saying windows 8 is rubbish! I've had it a while now due to doing a new full build and payed £50 for it. I nearly didnt bother due to people saying it was no good for gaming, which is what i do most but decided to take a gamble and it certainly has paid off! I've had no problems as yet with it although I do want my start button back and I care nothing for the apps and start screen. Windows 7 was a lot more money which was another deciding factor for me switching.

 

[Guest]

Well, I upgraded 2 desktop ($15 promo and $40 promo) and 2 laptops ($40 promo), and after a lot of work I just understand that the new start or home button is the start metro Shell, and that if you put a lot of work in it, you could use it.
But the best result of all that work was the Classic Shell program, that makes with small difference that after a week you would not notice, that everything works like before, but with the boost in performance and stability, and the option for a aplication market.
The really important thing, was the inicial price for a liscense, it didn't matter if you get an old xp p4 or p3 laptop, get the tag with the serial key, and throw it away; but you can use that serial for a new win8pro. That was ok.
I always though that and OS should cost $50 or less (new, not necesarily an upgrade), a productive program like office $30 and firewall, antivirus or others $10 or $15, sometimes less or more.
Why this Price. Well first, if you buy an i3, it would cost you $100, for development you would need to spend lots of money in that, could be the same that for the development of win8?, but you has to add the production for a fisical product, delibery, storage, etc, they use gold, platinum, copper, rare earths, that all cost more than the thin air from were MS send you the OS. How can something that you has to download and burn cost more than the core of my computer. You can buy new computers sometimes for $300 and the old win7ult cost $300 at that time. ???.
Second, they sold unfinished products, and we have to live each day with unconfotable upgrades, service packs, etc. And 3rd Now you can find free options that works perfectly in a desktop or laptop like Ubuntu that is also coming with a mobile version now. Free, with libreOffice, and programs for media, DVD burning, etc. ???
I was more than ok with the $40 tag, but now that $200 tag is to much and have been always to much. I don't believe I would get another win8 on a computer that didn't come with Windows 8 preloaded, and if needed, it would probable not be a liscensed one.
Sometime you should think really hard the price of what you are selling, if there is free stuff, or is not needed, or if is real value is not that, please sell it cheaper, at $40 they would be able to sell lots of OS, at $200 just what is really needed, and less, because people would try to save money with piracy.
I can tell you that now I'm happy with my 4 windows 8 pro with media center legal pc, with ClassicShell they fill like Windows 7, and can always look for the star metro intreface. And the performance is grate. But 40 bucks was the final auctin price I would pay for an OS, never $200.
I'm cheking Ubuntu, it could be a good optioon in the future. Maybe android is going grow enoght to be a desktop OS. Android should be almost free.
Ah. Apple sucks, really beautiful OS, really fast and stable, but to closed. I don't like the lack of freedom, also is always more expensive, even is the OS upgrades are cheap, the rest of thing are more expensive. And half of the people that use Apple products that are not in the media market, are a nasty kind of people, that think of then like better person, they are like the prius people, they just have that actitud, I'm just better than you. Until that 2 things change I would note get close to apple products.

 

[matt911]

I bought Windows 8 to upgrade Windows XP since Microsoft is making everything incompatible with it these days so things like the latest games are starting to not support Windows XP all the time. I was going to have to upgrade one of these days even though I really like XP just as it is. $40 seemed like it'd probably be the cheapest I'll be able to upgrade to a new Windows OS any time within the next few years, so I went ahead and did it.

I had to install more third party software on Windows 8 than I did on Windows XP because of removal of support for POP email (outlook express), removal of the start menu (I installed Classic Shell), and removal of DVD codecs in media player. Overall I'd still rather be using Windows XP than this from an interface standpoint. Windows 8 does have some nice stuff as far as operating system recovery and reinstallation goes and shutdown and startup is faster so its not all bad, but I never would have paid $119 to upgrade to this. They only managed to finally get me to upgrade because of the low price. It was too cheap to pass up given the risks of being unable to use most of the new software Microsoft is using and forcing others (like game developers) to use. Without that I wonder if people will upgrade at all.

I hate metro and I refuse to use the web-centric applications and the Microsoft Marketplace in place of superior standalone applications. The first thing I did was remove every single one of them and install Classic Shell. Its not really a good sign that when I use the new operating system my first impulse is to try to undo most of the major "improvements" it made, but I just found it to be horrid. However, at the core Windows 8 is more or less the same as Windows XP and Windows 7 and it still can run most of the same software just fine once you get past the interface. With Classic Shell I find it to be adequate, but not much more than that. I have greater esteem for the user interface in XP, Vista, and 7 than Windows 8.