£20 for windows 8 upgrade

prescott28 said:
There are quite a few improvements over Windows 7 apart from the obvious appearance changes. They are all detailed early in one of the Windows 8 thread. They include faster boot times, a better system for backing up files. It is generally faster and smaller that Windows 7 and just as quick to use despite what some people are saying.

Given the price, it would be silly not to benefit from the improvements and, who knows, a useful metro app might turn up :-)
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cool. i wonder if i can use the same serial to install on my netbook (maybe metro as we dont use it for much other than music streaming to hi-fi and web) and desktop. i bet not.
 
Well I'd like a copy I can install from dvd from booting via dvd. I don't want to install from within windows as everytime I want to install its because i've totally screwed windows up.
 
Product sold for $40 is never £20 in UK.

At £35-£40 this "upgrade" would have fractional uptake compared to if it actually was priced £20.
 
Would the upgrade work like the Windows 7 one?

I was trying to dual boot my mac and because Apple in their infinite wisdom decided to stop supporting vista installs i couldn't install Vista to upgrade to the Windows 7 copy i have, i had to install Windows 7 and then Install Windows 7 while in Windows 7 to get the upgrade code to work...
 
bemaniac said:
Well I'd like a copy I can install from dvd from booting via dvd. I don't want to install from within windows as everytime I want to install its because i've totally screwed windows up.
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You have the option to create your own DVD or bootable USB, and you can format the disk as part of the install process i.e. a clean install.
 
v0n said:
Product sold for $40 is never £20 in UK.

At £35-£40 this "upgrade" would have fractional uptake compared to if it actually was priced £20.
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I doubt it will make much difference tbh. It's cheap at twice the price so people who see the value will buy it and those who don't "wouldn't install it if you paid them" anyway.
 
theheyes said:
You have the option to create your own DVD or bootable USB, and you can format the disk as part of the install process i.e. a clean install.
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but if you have a wiped HDD you cant do the upgrade process. i think this started with Vista, as before that you could just stick in the old serial numbers on an upgrade license.
 
Well, this makes it clear one can download the update and write to a DVD (or pay $15 extra for the DVD) are an alternative to upgrading via the web. This may answer the questions raised about upgrading.

The price £39.99 equates to about £25.50. However there is VAT in the UK, raising the price to £30. I'd expect the cost to be somewhere around there.

The upgrade for those who have only just bought Windows 7 is $14.99 That works out at £9.50 = VAT = £11.40.

I hope that helps
 
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realBabelfish said:
but if you have a wiped HDD you cant do the upgrade process. i think this started with Vista, as before that you could just stick in the old serial numbers on an upgrade license.
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In the windows 98 days, you could upgrade from win95 to 98, just by putting the win95 cd in during the install of win98
 
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