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http://www.zdnet.com/how-the-new-win...p2-7000003028/

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Ben i maybe missing something here but i have already stated i don't have an OEM license and what you keep posting is regarding the OEM license.

I need to see in writing from a few sources that i am able to downgrade the windows 8 upgrade to my full boxed version of windows 7.

As i said it is confusing and i was sure i saw something yesterday that said i couldn't do it but have lost the links.

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Ignore what version you have, what matters is what the upgrade licence allows you to do.

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I do hope that is the case.

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So does that mean I can upgrade my oem version of windows 7 pro that I got through the microsoft site for £24.99

Or does this only apply to pc's bought in the shops and everyone else who owns windows 7 has to pay the full £100 price?

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you should be to upgrade

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You can only upgrade for that price with a new pc that comes with windows 7, this was announced a couple of months ago

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For those with a new PC it's £14.99. The standard upgrade offer is £24.99

http://www.zdnet.com/uk/microsoft-re...uk-7000003505/

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thats what I read but wasn't sure I was reading it right...re-reading it, it look like I can so will do

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Windows 8 Pre orders are now open.

Amazon have the boxed pro upgrade version for £49.99 for people who want the physical DVD, but if you don't want the DVD then the download price will be £24.99 i believe, or £14.99 for people who have bought a new PC with Windows 7 on and wish to take advantage of a cheap upgrade.

http://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft...s-8-pre-orders

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Windows-Pro-...0052664&sr=8-1

OEM Pricing.
http://www.theverge.com/2012/10/12/3...ware-pre-order

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Any idea how long the discount offer is available for? I bought a new Sony touchscreen PC a few weeks ago and am still considering what to do about upgrading to W8. As has been already said, I don't want to just dive in and then find out I don't like it and it's a whole heap of hassle getting back to Win7.

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Jan 31st 2013 I think.

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TVM, I never like being first in the water... ;)

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I would buy it now while it's cheap, then wait to hear the disaster stories before installing

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yes then price goes up on Feb 1st

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I'm doing a system image and backing up other stuff just in case so I can hopefully download and set it all up tomorrow.

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http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/...liveevent.aspx

live webcast for official launch

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This is the reason i plan on buying it for £24.99 even if i decide never to install it as the price will shoot up after.

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The £25 price is a download linked to your Microsoft account so you couldn't sell that on.

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Glad I'm not the only one around here. ;)

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I will be upgrading next week :)

My reasoning is I can always go back to 7 if 8 has too many bugs and if I waited for MS to iron out the bugs then that might take us past the 31st January and I won't be so inclined if I have to pay more than £25 for it.

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Price is now £50, it went up today!

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Riiiiiiiight.....

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No it didn't. :rolleyes:

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CCL computers have windows 8 at £40 inc vat for retail version.
http://www.cclonline.com/content/eshot/0454/index.html

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I am glad to finally see in writing from ms I can go back to windows 7 if I want tooo!

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It'd be easier just to install a registry hack to disable metro & re-enable the start menu. Then you still benefit from the general speed improvements.

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Got it downloading now. Paid £15 for it because my laptop was purchased after 2 June.

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Where? Links please?

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Thanks, if you go direct to shop its £50

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Yes £50 for a physical copy and £24.99 for the download one.

It's been that price for months.

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I've now got it installed! I quite like the Metro design, doesn't look like I'll end up using it much though...

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Either I'm an idiot or I can't get apps to open. I'm trying to open the app store but it won't. I tried opening Mail as well but it wouldn't open. Any ideas?

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did you get an ISO? I see you have to run upgrade assistant before it will let you buy it but it says its only a 2 gig download which is smaller than the full ISO

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Yeah, I've got an ISO. When you run the upgrade assistant it asks you how you want to install. You can pick "Install now", "Install from media"(copy it to a disc then install) and there was another option I think.

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That is what I did - I followed the instructions to create an iso as I wanted a clean install.

The DVD is 2.36gb extracted / burnt

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and its deffo 64 bit?

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Seems to be.

The only problem I'm having at the moment is adding media centre.

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here you can get media centre free till 31st January put in your email and you get key free

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/w.../feature-packs

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In theory - but this far they have not sent a key and I've tried three email addresses

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hopefully you get it soon

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chose to install with nothing saved and it upgraded and activated itself in next to no time

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Just finished my fresh install from a retail disc :)

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Did anyone get the Media Centre thing working - I have still not had a key emailed to me.

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Nope, I signed up to it when it was posted on here. Can anyone actually open any tiles without them going straight back to the start screen?

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I'm still waiting on my key, perhaps they have a big backlog and are struggling to cope?

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Yup all my tiles work fine. Some are not compatible with windows narrator but I expected that. They still work but the PC says 'This tile is incompatible with accessibility'

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Mods is it time to open a compatibility thread or do we continue with this thread?

ISO mounting . The minute you install something that can mount an ISO you lose the Mount option in explorer so once you are fully installed right click an ISO select properties click change to open with and select windows explorer. Right click then gives you mount back as an option as well as open with for your burning

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Anyone who wants the pro upgrade you can get the £10 off even if you have not bought a PC.

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Well i have now got a windows 8 upgrade code for £14.99, the question is should i use it at that price ?

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certainly should

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FYI my Media Centre product key just rolled in

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that's good enjoy :)

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Same, I'm gunna install now.

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Well just paid for it and have downloaded the digital download and i am presently burning it to disk. I must be mad

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the final version is much better than the previews mate give it a go could like it when your used to it if not you always got 7 to go back to

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it good the keys gets sorted now :)

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Upgrade complete, now to see if i have hair left by the end of the weekend :)

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http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/w.../feature-packs

use that to get free media centre and give it little time to get used to it I used it for a while and not had any probs

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you hardly had any left in the 1st place.

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:LOL:

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Mine just went belly up. Looks like I'm going have to re instal again tomorrow.

I can no longer get the all apps page to loaf or the search to work. It just cashed the metro start screen. And desktop

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Windows 8 now installed.

I'll give it a week or so before I decide whether it bugs me or whether it has improved my experience. First impressions are good although I still feel like I am fumbling around a bit.

Best touch so far is that when you start typing in the Start screen it automatically opens up the search.

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have you got the updates


http://winunleaked.info/threads/738-...n-to-Windows-8

a good guide to help use windows 8 if you get stuck

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Ohhh, I didn't realise you could turn the taskbar off on your second monitor. That's good because it got annoying seeing it there.

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Use it and at £24.99 or £14.99 i think is a no brainer, and you can always go back to Windows 7.

Does anyone know if we can do a clean install with download or retail disk?

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Well its loaded and working, i have to say there has been some improvements since the last time i tried it. All my games are loaded and i have not found anything that does not work YET :)

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yes everything works on windows 8 :) think your gonna enjoy it lots did you get media centre

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I will buy an SSD and do a clean install on it in the coming weeks, i always have Windows 7 to fall back on though, but i couldn't pass up on the £14.99/£24.99 deal! :)

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Still waiting on the email with the code

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Yup - it took ages for me to get mine.

I eventually sorted my issues - it was the printer driver that was causing the problem.

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very glad your sorted now enjoy :)

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hope you get it soon mate

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If you don't get it soon let me know - I have another code for it now.

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Might catch you on teamspeak ;)

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I got spares also

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Just been out to Scan computers in Bolton and purchased a better sound card than my on board realtek. The drivers for windows 8 don't seem to like the on board card and i have fitted a new creative labs card instead. The difference is remarkable especially for me as i have to wear hearing aids.

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How long did it take for yours to come through ?

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Pretty sure it was 4 hours, may be a bit more for mine.

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they all just happened when I was online this am

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Put my order in late last night and nothing yet :(

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Same here

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I got the £14.99 upgrade version and installed it over the top of the preview without any problems. Also got the free media center install :)

Only problem I'm having, is I can't get the AMD Catalyst drivers to work properly. The control center won't run :(

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Just a case of waiting on the driver vendors really, it's not like no one told them windows 8 was coming out. They should've been ready.

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uninstall all AMD Cat software and install anew

Mine work fine HD7970

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try this link and use auto detect and install

http://support.amd.com/us/Pages/AMDSupportHub.aspx

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I just got the media centre install code, about 24hrs after I requested it, which is what they say it can take to arrive! May be worth checking your spam folder in webmail, especially if using a virgin based account as it can block proper mails at time :(

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I did that yesterday on mine and when I downloaded the installer it wasn't compatible.

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Nice post here describing how to use it all for the novice, like me!

http://www.theverge.com/2012/10/28/3...s-how-to-guide

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I've not really had any problems since install Nvidia card only thing that happend to me tonight was the Display driver stopped responding. windows crashed after that although had this in windows 7 for a while it then managed to sort itself out

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Very happy with Windows 8, did an upgrade install, only niggle is if you restart it takes a while to load up in comparison to 7, no such issue if I shut down though

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http://www.redmondpie.com/this-exten...new-interface/ some handy keyboard shortcuts here

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I was under the impression it was way faster starting than any other windows, or maybe a restart is different to a normal start.

I plan on putting my copy on a 128GB SSD seeing you can get them for £50 now.

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Thanks for the list, am hoping i won't need to remember shortcuts as i am so used to using the mouse, and i dont plan on buying a touch screen as it seems like hard work. :)

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I have it on a normal SATA drive on my laptop but it's way quicker at booting from the SSD on my tablet even when restarting

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After a few days of use I can't say Windows has caused me any problems. I've had a few things to learn but it all seems to be hanging together.

One quirk I have noticed is that if you open an application, say Chrome, from the taskbar you get the normal window container, with close and minimize buttons. But if you open the same application from the Start screen you don't get a window container and have to drag the window to the bottom to close the application. This isn't a huge issue but it did confuse me at first.

Here is an article I picked up this morning that goes some way to explain why my laptop is now consuming significantly less power (be warned it's quite technical and a fairly long read)

http://arstechnica.com/information-t...-of-windows-8/

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I noticed that too. Also am I the only one who has problems when loading Chrome from the Start screen? It's fine when I load from the desktop though.

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yes all metro apps open full screen

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re the opening of some apps- eg.Chrome,
the app can open in two ways the normal old way, and the modern ui way(metro)

if I open chrome from the desktop, it has under the tools an option to start chrome in windows 8 mode.

I have changed the shortcut for chrome on the start screen to the desktop version,
so it doesn't open in the new modern ui mode.

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Well thanks to some information on how to get this for dirt cheap, I thought I would give it a try and actually it's not to bad.

Gonna give it a month to see how it goes.

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Guessing a few of you will have got the "upgrade" from here:

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-GB/windows/buy

After purchasing, I'm assuming you get emailed your Product ID and you can download an ISO - is that correct?

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You get a download for an 'assistant' that then lets you download it directly or the iso.

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Ehh? Assistant? Yes - like the upgrade assistant - then you put your details in / payment and then is launches a download manager you mean which downloads the ISO?