Microsoft Windows 8.1 will get 70% price reduction

It not discount for Retail nor OEM Retail only OEM get the deal like Dell, HP, etc, etc so why would give a rats you know what which I don't do because of all trash that get install and cut rate carp parts that they used.

 

It's not like it would hurt to provide an optional Vista or 7 style interface and desktop environment. I used W8 for about two weeks and couldn't stand it. I'm content with a slower interface if it means I get my SM and don't have to stare at the ugly ribbon for explorer windows.

Off topic: Hello G3D forums .

 

There are 3 party interfaces for Win 8 and many are free so ....
Many people don't want to give it a try from the first time and other are just lazy to change it:
You can make win 8.1 start directly in Desktop mode so you don't need to use the metro interface so much (only thing i use it is to get to my programs and that is more simple for me at least (in Win 8.1) that in any other Windows, just because i have +200 programs and they are more easy to find in Win 8.1 (windows button and then ctrl+ Tab) and you can easy search for them in there).
So again i say many people are lazy and don't what to learn how to use a new OS (many still want to do all whit the mouse and whit to few actions).
Still to get to control panel , device manager, command prompt (admin) .... and other is really easy on Win 8.1 and harder on 7 and lower.
So pls don't bash on Win 8,8.1 if you don't like and interface after 4-8 weeks of using it, play whit it for 6 months and then give a feedback.
There are little bugs here and there that got or will get fix but every OS has them.
Still to keep to the topic, i hope that this move will be a move to a cheaper Windows 9.
And i think is a first for MS to do this for his flagship OS.

 

its contra productive for pc gamer to buy retail os for such highprice, they use for subsidse xbox os production

 

single ply toilet paper for $1, or for $.10, doesn't matter, you are STILL going to get s**t all over your fingers, regardless.

 

Nice one, ASLayerAODsk, and totally correct!

 

Windows 8 is by a long way the best OS Microsoft have ever produced. Sure, on desktops Metro is crap (but easily removed with free software, and 8.1 update 1 will bring back the start menu) - but there's a lot more to an OS than an over-layed user interface.

 

I'd love to upgrade to Win8.1, but i've only just moved to Win7 from Vista fairly recently and dont feel to keen on migrating everything over again.

 

Hey yo!

 

Only 2reasons:
1)because MS doesnt release new security updates.
2)win xp doesnt support dx10 or dx11 games. (Not that there are a lot of games that support dx10,dx11 games)

And i personally havent found a single dx11 game to play! except barely a few: CIV5, grid2 and maybe one weekend games.

^If we count dx11games looks like im terrible gamer after all.

 

Actually you don't have to. If its Windows 7 you're on, you get upgrade i believe where it keeps all your apps but it converts your OS into Windows 8. not as good as a clean install, but its good enough. I did it on an alternative rig to test BF4 performance and it did get a boost.

 

Just a very quick question about Windows 8:
If I ever did re-install one of the copies of Windows 8 Pro I bought a while back, would it update to Windows 8.1 via Microsoft Updates?

 

From memory, yes.

 

No. You must use Windows Store.

 

Thanks very much for the prompt replies.
Much appreciated.

 

Linux 4 ever!

 

I upgraded from Win 7x64 and have to say it was painless. Everything just worked, a please t surprise!

 

Im @ win8.1 and win8 since release and its great.

Although, looking at one Win 8.1 update1 video, its what win8 should have been from the start, but ok. At least we will get it free :nerd:

 

What else is new, my dear colleagues?

Few years ago, right after the Vi$ta was officially released, I had warned this Forum (and some other as well) about the serious dysfunctionalities of this OS.
And EVERYBODY jumped as if personally offended : "no, this is NORMAL" they shouted, "it's always been like this...just a minor problems with the "new born baby"..."soon it'll be corrected, just wait and see...". And WHAT did we see? A "baby" turned out to be a "Rosemary's baby", right? Ugly, evil&stewpid Frankenstein's creature...
Now, it's win 8...oops! I mean 8.1...or, is it gonna be 8.35 in a month or two, huh?

 

No one needed warning about Vista, for most people it was painfully obvious when things get so much slower.

W8 is the opposite, it's quicker, easier to use and most of the complaints are from people who don't use it.

That's the tech world though, the majority of Linux or even Apple haters have never spent any appreciable time with the respective products/OS's and no different with Windows.