£20 for windows 8 upgrade

[alex24]

Worth getting for £20, even if you don't use it until you have to.

 

[prescott28]

The price is £14.99 for the windows 7 upgrade offer.

Source?

 

[MikeB]

That price is only if you buy a qualifying pc now

 

[Glaucus]

Ignore

 

[FredFlint]

The upgrade is to Win 8 Pro and also allows downgrading to Win 7 pro so you could go from XP --> Win 7 Pro

 

[ChilledLJ]

You can do the upgrade from Windows 8 release preview so that is basically $40 for a brand new operating system

 

[SFFNoob]

At £20, I'd get 2 licenses for future purposes but isn't it going to be $40/£40?

 

[meandu229]

Can I use the XP license of an old netbook to upgrade my PC or will that stop the netbook from being able to work?

 

[pitchfork]

How about if you bought windows 7 upgrade media (student).

Not sure if I want to upgrade until I've had a good old go on it to be honest, it looks poncey.

 

[meandu229]

How about if you bought windows 7 upgrade media (student).

Not sure if I want to upgrade until I've had a good old go on it to be honest, it looks poncey.

get the review. I like it its my daily driver now, the metro thing is a bit meh but you hardly see it if you dont want to

 

[nightmare99]

Source?

Program Info



We’ve got you covered.

Buy a Windows 7 PC and get Windows 8 Pro for £14.99.

Refer to the information below for the offer details.

What I'm saying is it may be £29.99 £34.99 or £39.99, it probably wont be £20, still fantastic value mind.

 

[Azuse05]

Tbh the real value is for xp users as the upgrade prices apply to machines running the beta too

 

[MADMAN]

xp users need to dispose of there pcs 1st n the weee recycling

 

[FoxEye]

At £20, I'd get 2 licenses for future purposes but isn't it going to be $40/£40?

Amazon UK have the win8 upgrade priced at £50 and I'd be inclined to believe that £50 will be the official UK price, when the dust settles.

 

[BlizzardX]

I'll be getting it for sure, I liked Windows 8 & metro... much better than the dumb start menu I use now in Windows 7!

 

[opethdisciple]

At this early stage the initial response, is that Win 8 is going to stink as a Desktop OS.

Who knows, maybe people ar not ready for changes, which eventually they wont be able to believe they lived with out.

 

[Neil79]

Buy windows... har

 

[prescott28]

At this early stage the initial response, is that Win 8 is going to stink as a Desktop OS.

Who knows, maybe people ar not ready for changes, which eventually they wont be able to believe they lived with out.

On the other hand, many of us have found Windows 89 to work very well. The 'Metro' interface is annoying but can easily be customised to work well as a start menu. After a while the lack of a Start Button on the desktop just goes unnoticed as one develops other ways to achieve the same tasks. ViStart offer help by providing a start menu and can be downloaded free.

Given the improvements in all sorts of areas Windows 8 has, it would be silly not to upgrade especially as the price for an electronic update is likely to be around £30.

 

[Phil2008]

At this early stage the initial response, is that Win 8 is going to stink as a Desktop OS.

Who knows, maybe people ar not ready for changes, which eventually they wont be able to believe they lived with out.

Are we not all like this for every new version of windows, as we dont really like change. Me for 1 hated win8, but now its growing on me and I think the new start will be better then the old one

 

[w1lliam]

Amazon UK have the win8 upgrade priced at £50 and I'd be inclined to believe that £50 will be the official UK price, when the dust settles.

Hoped it would be closer to £30.