bought 2 upgrades for $14.99- put one on a desktop that was running windows7 ultimate and one on a laptop that was running windows 7 home premium. Both are test machines.
Desktop went fine except i had to uninstall MSE and a few programs prior to install of windows 8 pro, this took about 1 1/2 hours
Laptop also had to uninstall MSE and a few programs, that took about 2 hours
Unless you are an IT person like myself I would not recommend doing an upgrade to my clients, primarilly because they are mostly beginners and if they tried this themselves I know something would go wrong.
I was not thrilled that on my desktop and laptop boot up time is slower than it was when they were windows 7
I was not thrilled that I had to use task scheduler to reschedule WD on the laptop because right now it is doing a daily scan at 1:00am and this laptop is not on at that time. Besides i do not want it to run a scan daily.
I still feel there should be a scheduler to give those who want to run it at a special time can do it within the program, not dig for Task Scheduler to do it.
Of course the first thing I did was put Classic Shell on. You all know how I feel about no Start Menu
I am not thrilled that you are basically tricked by Micrososft to sign in by setting up a Live Mail Account.
Yes further down you can use a regular username and password but Micrososft encourages you to set up a live mail account
I have one but that is not the issue.
If you do it in the beginning you are basically stuck with it
If you use your regular username and password and sign in when you go to the metro IU you can sign up there for one or use a present one but it keeps your regular username and password when you log in again to Windows 8 after a reboot or logoff
I need a laptop running Windows 8 Pro for my seminars that I do. After the first of this year I will purchase one because I am not going to convert my Windows 7 Pro that is only 2 yrs old to Windows 8, I still have so many clients who are on Windows 7 or XP and I need the ability to teach those who just recently bought Windows 7 and those businesses that are on xp and will want to go to Windows 7 which I can still get until the middle of next year.
I still feel windows 7 is more stable than Windows 8 and still easier to learn
The businesses that I deal with do not Want at this time Windows 8
However, my home based clients who just surf the net, check email, play games, look at pictures will love Windows 8. and them I plan to make lots of money from because they will not know how to use it and will be asking me for lessons, so in that part I do like Windows 8 ;p
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I do have a few bugs to report, but I don't know where to report them!
