bfollowell
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I am psyched about the $40 upgrade offer Microsoft is offering for Windows 8 Pro. I plan to take advantage of that. My wife and I each have a desktop and a laptop. Yes, you heard right. Two people, four Windows computers, four upgrades. This sort of leads into my question. We do not have real, wired high-speed Internet available where we live. We do have satellite high-speed, if you can really call it that, but we are bandwidth capped daily to about 500 MB. That's going to make it really hard to upgrade one computer, let alone four.
Then I saw that you can create bootable media once the download is complete. I'm hopeful that we could take one of our laptops to the local library and download the upgrade using their connection, then burn the upgrade to a DVD and use that to upgrade all of our computers. I figured each would have it's own product key. Then I heard that they're doing away with product keys altogether so I don't know if my plan will work or not.
Also, since your upgrade/product is tied to a Microsoft account, can I even have four Windows upgrades tied to one account?
This whole new approach leaves me with a lot of unanswered questions.
Does anyone out there know the answers to any of them yet? If anyone has any answers, I'd really love to hear them because I'm really hopeful that we'll be able to take advantage of this generous upgrade offer.
Thanks for any information anyone may be able to provide.
- Byron Followell
Then I saw that you can create bootable media once the download is complete. I'm hopeful that we could take one of our laptops to the local library and download the upgrade using their connection, then burn the upgrade to a DVD and use that to upgrade all of our computers. I figured each would have it's own product key. Then I heard that they're doing away with product keys altogether so I don't know if my plan will work or not.
Also, since your upgrade/product is tied to a Microsoft account, can I even have four Windows upgrades tied to one account?
This whole new approach leaves me with a lot of unanswered questions.
Does anyone out there know the answers to any of them yet? If anyone has any answers, I'd really love to hear them because I'm really hopeful that we'll be able to take advantage of this generous upgrade offer.
Thanks for any information anyone may be able to provide.
- Byron Followell
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- Windows 7 Pro