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tony007

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I have had windows8 for about a week now, whilst I think it is designed for touch screens it can be adapted for mouse use. I find it is getting easier and is a very stable system, I don't think I am going to buy it and get my fingers burnt like I did with vista. Which did'ent take long before windows7 came out. You could say the same happened with ME with xp. So while I have learnt how to use it I'll wait to see what they bring out next before purchasing. While it is a lot different to windows7 and what went before I think I'll be happy using windows7 for a while longer.:dinesh:
 

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Tony, Win 7 is a fine system If you think MS is having a hard time getting rid of XP, wait until the try to get rid of 7.

But Win 8 is not another Vista. Vista actually IS better than XP if you have a powerful enough computer--and most people didn't. 8's problem is the huge learning curve with the Metro desktop, but once you learn that, it is a good OS. And it is easy to bypass Metro completely and use the classical desktop.
 

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tony007 said:
Yeh but how long before they bring out another operating system I'me sick of paying for two every time.
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Valid point, Tony. On another thread, I'm experimenting with the idea that the Win 8 Preview can serve as a free copy of Win 7 for people who are still using XP. And I'm wondering why I would need to buy the full Win 8, when I'm getting everything I want on the Preview version by downloading free apps off the web.
 

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Anybody know how much it will cost when finally released.
 

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56kevins said:
Anybody know how much it will cost when finally released.
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If they sell it for the price of a Snow Leopard ($29.95), then it will sell. At the usual Windows prices there will be few takers of the retail version - I think.
 

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it will be probably as usual, around $ 120 for Home Premium OEM and Upgrade and $ 200 for the retail
 

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56kevins said:
Anybody know how much it will cost when finally released.
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Kevin, I researched it on the web, and this is official: nobody knows.

One tech site predicts different versions will run from $100-250, based on the prices for Win 7 versions.

Another tech site predicts that MS will be making most of its profits from sales connected to the Metro Interface (X-Box Live, MS Store, etc.) and he predicts that the upgrade edition might be only $75, with no edition being more than $300. He also points out that the low price of Apple's new OS could frighten MS into lowering the price.

A forum site points out that consumers just bought Win 7 and might not see a need to upgrade, and that would also pull the price lower.

But officially, MS isn't talking, so these are only intelligent guesses.
 
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josh4eaton said:
WAIT JUST ONE MINUTE!!! u can buy mac OS's?
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Sure you can. But if you run it on a PC, you are violating the Apple EULA that does not allow that. Many people do it anyhow.
 

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You can't run OSX on your PC without hack it, this is really of topic and probaly not allowed to talk about it.
 

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I think I was talking about Snow Leopard. But as was said, no need to persue the subject because it is not legal.
 

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One thing Microsoft could do, is reduce the number of potential SKUs. For Windows 8, there's speculation we'll see:

Windows 8 ARM edition
Windows 8 Starter Edition
Windows 8 Home Basic
Windows 8 Home Premium
Windows 8 Professional
Windows 8 Professional Plus
Windows 8 Ultimate
Windows 8 Enterprise

There's also at least one new SKU to add to that list:

Windows 8 Professional Media Centre Edition

In the end, that list may well turn out to be incorrect however, when one looks at the number of Windows 7 editions, it probably won't be far off.

Whether MS will actually do anything about desktop prices remains to be seen, but they really do need to think hard
 

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