Windows 8 Professional

[bledd]

Windows 8 Professional x64 RTM does have WMC on it, but had to use another product key for WMC to enabled addition features, it rather stupid from Microsoft to disabled WMC and have to purchase option for WMC. Rip off.

No

It's better to have it as an optional extra. It drives the price of the OS down. MS have to pay for licensing costs for DVD playback etc

Personally, I only ever want WMC on one pc in the house. So if Windows is cheaper for the rest of the machines, that works out well for me!

 

[bulldog147]

How much are we expecting to purchase Windows 8 Professional x64 OEM/RETAIL in October (without upgrade) ?

 

[nightmare99]

How much are we expecting to purchase Windows 8 Professional x64 OEM/RETAIL in October (without upgrade) ?

There will only be OEM, the omnly retail product now is upgrade.

 

[ChileanLlama]

I can see WMC product key on technet pro but not sure about MSDN.

Where? MS posted on the TechNet forum it wouldn't be available until release, and then it would be a free download (same as upgraders til Jan)

 

[ChileanLlama]

No

It's better to have it as an optional extra. It drives the price of the OS down. MS have to pay for licensing costs for DVD playback etc

Personally, I only ever want WMC on one pc in the house. So if Windows is cheaper for the rest of the machines, that works out well for me!

I'll want it on more than one machine, but I agree that if it saves money it's the right thing to do.

I was concerned MS wouldn't pass on the savings, but it seems that will be doing - at least in part - so no complaints here.

 

[Burnsy2023]

There will only be OEM, the omnly retail product now is upgrade.

What? No FPP offering? Source?

 

[stoofa]

There will only be OEM, the omnly retail product now is upgrade.

As above - where you hearing that from?

 

[Vimes]

I posted in the "£20 thread" about that and included this link...

http://www.zdnet.com/microsoft-radically-overhauls-license-agreements-for-windows-8-7000002866/

it states that there will be three different types...

• the retail upgrade (with slight variations for Windows 8 and Windows 8 Pro);
• the OEM agreement that most consumers will see when they purchase a new PC with Windows 8 preinstalled;
• and a new license type called a Personal Use License for System Builder, which won’t be available until the General Availability of Windows 8 in October.

....whether the above is right or not I have found no other information to suggest there will be a full retail copy of any sorts available to buy. The closest I have seen is the third in that list which may well suit many people if they wish to stay within the EULA and change motherboards etc etc.

PERSONAL USE LICENSE (SYSTEM BUILDER) FOR WINDOWS 8 PRO
We do not sell our software or your copy of it – we only license it.Under our license, we grant you the right to install and run that one copy on one computer (the licensed computer) as the operating system on a computer that you build for your personal use, or as an additional operating system running on a local virtual machine or a separate partition, subject to the restrictions outlined under “Are there things I’m not allowed to do with the software?”


That last license type represents the first time Microsoft has formally acknowledged the right of its end-user customers to install Windows 8 on a new PC they build themselves, or to install it in a virtual machine or on a separate partition.

More information is noted in the posted link.