Windows 8 upgrade prices

Wow, $200 for the upgrade to Windows 8 pro. Prices were confirmed...I'm still somewhat skeptical that they won't keep the low priced upgrades around since sales haven't been crazy high...considering the low cost.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2025778/windows-8-pro-upgrade-price-rises-to-199-99-after-jan-31.html

The upgrade to regular Windows 8 will be $119. And upgrades to pro from 8 standard will be $99. Which now that I think about it is the price HP just charged me to upgrade a machine. Hmmmm......
 
Glad I got in on the $15 upgrade while I could.
 

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Sorry Mr. parkks1, albeit already posted in the "Discussion Section." I posted it about two to three hours ago, and the mods moved it there in about thirty seconds. You been lucky so far; probably went home or out to dinner. . . .:D
 

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$119 seems pretty much in line with what Windows 7 cost, but I'm glad I upgraded when I did. Since (IMO) most people from this point on will be getting Win8 as the installed OS on a new PC purchase, I don't think the cost will have much impact on sales. Still, it will be interesting to watch.
 

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Sorry Mr. parkks1, albeit already posted in the "Discussion Section." I posted it about two to three hours ago, and the mods moved it there in about thirty seconds. You been lucky so far; probably went home or out to dinner. . . .:D

I'm unsure why everytime I click on search and search for things like "upgrade price" that I turn up nothing. Then I post, and I'm notified that it already exists.


Mods: Please go ahead and simply delete this thread.
 

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Well I've got three licences and will be buying at least one more if not two.
 

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I think anyone that wouldn't take advantage of this best offer Microsoft has ever launched is plain crazy. You don't have to do alot to get the promo to register. I think it's just a matter of people being too lazy to move some files off their Windows Vista/XP/7 machines. I've been having everyone I know get the 14.99 and just hold the key and install OS on USB Flash Drives for later.

Definitely don't want to miss the boat on such a great deal! I've bought 2 copies for what would be less then one regular download @ 39.99 ERP + you get the free product key (Windows Media Center Pack) 9.99 ERP for now FREE before end of this month!!

I mean,you'd have to be crazy not to?
 

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I think anyone that wouldn't take advantage of this best offer Microsoft has ever launched is plain crazy. You don't have to do alot to get the promo to register. I think it's just a matter of people being too lazy to move some files off their Windows Vista/XP/7 machines. I've been having everyone I know get the 14.99 and just hold the key and install OS on USB Flash Drives for later.

Definitely don't want to miss the boat on such a great deal! I've bought 2 copies for what would be less then one regular download @ 39.99 ERP + you get the free product key (Windows Media Center Pack) 9.99 ERP for now FREE before end of this month!!

I mean,you'd have to be crazy not to?

Well, I haven't taken advantage. I'm not of the opinion that 8 does anything so much better than 7 to deal with the new UI changes that I don't like. So, why spend $40 for my desktop to replace 7 and $40 to replace my wife's Vista, and another $40 for my file server box happily running 7, and another $40 for my old desktop that my kids use every note and again to play old games on XP. That's $160 for something that I don't really even want.
 

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    8GB G.Skill PI DDR2-800, 4-4-4-12 timings
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    EVGA 1280MB Nvidia GeForce GTX570
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    Realtek ALC899A 8 channel onboard audio
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I think I might go and hoard some upgrade licenses while I can...
 

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Interesting commentary:

[ Paul Thurott from Winsupersite.com argues that Microsoft is justified charging the same price per copy as Windows 7, but he failed to consider Windows 8’s additional revenue possibilities that could justify lower price points. Windows 8’s built in applications have advertisements front and center, and don’t forget Microsoft gets a cut on everything you buy from the new Windows store. /QUOTE]

Windows 8 Pricing Returns to Normal in February
 

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Interesting commentary:

[ Paul Thurott from Winsupersite.com argues that Microsoft is justified charging the same price per copy as Windows 7, but he failed to consider Windows 8’s additional revenue possibilities that could justify lower price points. Windows 8’s built in applications have advertisements front and center, and don’t forget Microsoft gets a cut on everything you buy from the new Windows store. /QUOTE]

Windows 8 Pricing Returns to Normal in February

You know, the vast majority of apps in the Windows Store are free, right? The Bing apps in Windows are nothing more than good templates/app versions of Bing's online services. Go to Bing Weather, there will be a couple of adverts, ect.
 

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You know, the vast majority of apps in the Windows Store are free, right? The Bing apps in Windows are nothing more than good templates/app versions of Bing's online services. Go to Bing Weather, there will be a couple of adverts, ect.

But that's not the future. Many are paid apps already (a lot of the free ones are pretty lame) and the intent is clearly to attract developers and have lots more paid apps. Aren't the Apple and Android models what Microsoft is trying to compete with in Windows 8?
 

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You know, the vast majority of apps in the Windows Store are free, right? The Bing apps in Windows are nothing more than good templates/app versions of Bing's online services. Go to Bing Weather, there will be a couple of adverts, ect.

But that's not the future. Many are paid apps already (a lot of the free ones are pretty lame) and the intent is clearly to attract developers and have lots more paid apps. Aren't the Apple and Android models what Microsoft is trying to compete with in Windows 8?
The android model isn't comparable as the most of the whole marketplace is based off the premise of free apps. The Windows Store is more comparable to the ios/mac app stores. Except, the developers get more payoff. The Windows Store has a standard of $1.49, where Microsoft gets about 49 cents, the developer about a good dollar whereas with ios, it's roughly 30 cents for apple, about 60 for the developer; also to partly filter out crapapps.

But the better platform out of all to monetize apps is Windows Phone. Some data was recently released that shows that Windows Phone users are more inclined to purchase apps than ios or android, partly due to the fact the Windows Phone Store doesn't have half a million apps, and REAL good quality apps that are worth the while are paid ones.

But for Windows, I don't know if there is a good potential payoff for Microsoft in the long run. Seeing as most of the top titles from ios and android are free and will be and should be brought over to Windows, there isn't a payoff there. I mean, how many free, open sourced programs for Windows that can replace other costly programs are there? There's GIMP and VLC player I think of off the top of my head. Honestly, the apps that deserve to have a price tag to them should be good quality ones. I'm looking at the top paid apps right now on the Windows Store, most of them are games, a few social apps, and several productivity apps. Looking at the top free apps, they're mostly all app versions of websites, some games, a few productivity apps.

If anything in the future that will have monetization I believe will be the top latest games, and again, very good quality apps.
 

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    AMD FX 8320
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    Crosshair V Formula-Z
    Memory
    16 gig DDR3
    Graphics Card(s)
    ASUS R9 270
    Screen Resolution
    1440x900
    Hard Drives
    1 TB Seagate Barracuda (starting to hate Seagate)
    x2 3 TB Toshibas
    Windows 8.1 is installed on a SanDisk Ultra Plus 256 GB
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    OCZ 500 watt
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    A current work in progres as I'll be building the physical case myself. It shall be fantastic.
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    Arctic Cooler with 3 heatpipes
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    Logitech K750 wireless solar powered keyboard
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    Windows Defender, but I might go back on KIS 2014
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