Windows 8 pricing question

borley · 5 Oct 2013 at 15:10

I have a quick look round and windows 8 pro upgrade is between £60-£70 yet window 8 upgrade is £100 am i missing something? I have Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit.
Thanks

marc2003 · 5 Oct 2013 at 15:15

just grab the pro upgrade while you can. as soon as windows 8.1 comes out on the 17th, microsoft are doing away with upgrades and you'll only be able to buy full versions.

Caged · 5 Oct 2013 at 15:20

If you already have Windows 7 then spend the £60 on something else. Are you only looking at it because you fancy a change?

Hyburnate · 5 Oct 2013 at 15:24

With 8.1 being the only operation system to support the new update of DirectX. It will get to a point where you're going to need to use it. Buy it whilst it's cheap.

demonix · 5 Oct 2013 at 15:32

borley said:
yet window 8 upgrade is £100

There was only an upgrade to windows 8 pro, so those selling a windows 8 standard upgrade are telling fibs.

borley · 5 Oct 2013 at 15:37

Caged said:
If you already have Windows 7 then spend the £60 on something else. Are you only looking at it because you fancy a change?

I'm a Battlefield fan and its so much smoother on 8 id probably go dual OS boot, so if its cheap enough i would buy as i got nearly 900 hours out of BF3

Nevakonaza · 5 Oct 2013 at 15:54

I want to upgrade my desktop to Windows 8,But no way am i paying £75 for it,Its even more expensive buying directly from Microsoft which is just silly,I cant believe how greedy this company is..no wonder people keep on pirating.

Yes i know i should have bought it when it was £25?..but back then talks were all saying its not worth it if you have 7 etc.

borley · 5 Oct 2013 at 23:25

If you look on that auction site you can get it for £55 from a proper auction shop so it is legit

nightmare99 · 6 Oct 2013 at 09:15

There was only an upgrade to windows 8 pro, so those selling a windows 8 standard upgrade are telling fibs.

No they did release an upgrade version of Core after the offer price finished on Pro. You can still find shops with stock of Pro at a heavily reduced price so Core upgrade makes little sense.

Burnsy2023 · 6 Oct 2013 at 10:50

marc2003 said:
just grab the pro upgrade while you can. as soon as windows 8.1 comes out on the 17th, microsoft are doing away with upgrades and you'll only be able to buy full versions.

Source?

Burnsy2023 · 6 Oct 2013 at 10:51

borley said:
If you look on that auction site you can get it for £55 from a proper auction shop so it is legit

Lol. Just because it's from an eBay shop does not mean it's legit.

JediFragger · 6 Oct 2013 at 12:48

Asda are apparantly selling Win8 Pro for £49.99. I'll go along to my local in a bit and check...

Sencha · 6 Oct 2013 at 14:24

Burnsy2023 said:
Source?

I'd love to have some more info on this aswell. I've been holding off get 8 and hoping to pick up 8.1 upgrade disk to take me up from 7. If that's not going to happen I'll grab upgrade 8 now.

marc2003 · 6 Oct 2013 at 14:52

Burnsy2023 said:
Source?

http://blogs.windows.com/windows/b/...17/pricing-and-packaging-for-windows-8-1.aspx

chaparral · 6 Oct 2013 at 15:55

Nevakonaza said:
I want to upgrade my desktop to Windows 8,But no way am i paying £75 for it,Its even more expensive buying directly from Microsoft which is just silly,I cant believe how greedy this company is..no wonder people keep on pirating.

Yes i know i should have bought it when it was £25?..but back then talks were all saying its not worth it if you have 7 etc.

LOL you listened to someone that told you not to buy w8 pro when it cost only £25 and now your moaning it going cost you much much more to upgrade to w8...

gareth170 · 6 Oct 2013 at 16:39

Nevakonaza said:
Yes i know i should have bought it when it was £25?..but back then talks were all saying its not worth it if you have 7 etc.

you shouldn't of listened to people. you have your own mind and judgement.

borley · 6 Oct 2013 at 20:01

Burnsy2023 said:
Lol. Just because it's from an eBay shop does not mean it's legit.

Lol im not a noob its a performance seller Box UK they are are an official seller of products

Columbo · 6 Oct 2013 at 23:26

Nevakonaza said:
I want to upgrade my desktop to Windows 8,But no way am i paying £75 for it,Its even more expensive buying directly from Microsoft which is just silly,I cant believe how greedy this company is..no wonder people keep on pirating.

Yes i know i should have bought it when it was £25?..but back then talks were all saying its not worth it if you have 7 etc.

Looking at your post history it looks like you've payed full price for GTAV and other games that you'll maybe get 6-12 months out of at a push, yet for some reason £75 for something you'll use everyday for years seems expensive? :confused:

HighlandeR · 6 Oct 2013 at 23:47

I checked fleabay and some guys are selling the win8 pro upgrade code with a download to iso link for 24.99, 100% rating also.....

One or 2 others selling and doing same for 30 quid not sure if its ok or not...

~>Dg<~ · 7 Oct 2013 at 00:01

50 for upgrade is often going on at many places. just keep a eye on hotdealsuk.