Upgrade to Windows 8 for $39.99

I think they are going to have trouble giving this one away

I wouldn't do it if MS paid me the $39.99 .

I remember when Windows 7 was hated and pronounced dead on forums around the world, now look whats happened. XP Pro was all the rage, noone wanted to let it go, the future is ahead, either go with it, or at least give it a chance, you can use any OS for a month before you have to sell your soul. LOL.

For $40 that is actually a deal. Not everybody is going to hate metro and you can download it and put it on a tablet...I have an old slate that runs windows 7...i might actually try this

For some reason Microsoft thinks my desktop computer has turned into a Windows phone from the looks of Windows 8.

Copying apple again, this time by reasonably pricing the O/S.

Mac OSX is 29 bucks for the full version and always has been.

I still can't run any of the CAD software I use on on any Mac OS's. Rhino3D 5.0 is actually in Beta form and FREE to use for Mac's but it is buggy, and McNeel isn't even thinking about releasing 5.0 this year for P.C's, Mac's will be another two years away. Pepakura (a program used for modeling paper craft) does not work on any Mac system. Mac's cannot open .PDO files natively.

My Silhouette Cameo paper cutting machine works with Mac's but since none of the design software that the bulk of people into the hobby use, even at $29 dollars, and the fact you cannot install OSX in a computer that isn't built by Apple, I don't think it should be considered an operating system really, it should be though of as Apple's Center for Controlling Computers and People .



If they do ever allow it to be installed on a machine other than one they have made, I would definitely give it a try again. It takes too much time for me to go between two different computers, and why bother when I have three that can all run everything I need?

Is it a surprise at any given moment that a Windows based computer OS is the most popular? I think W7Pro is great. It's no surprise to me.

I don't remember that at all to be honest. People were very eager for W7. The only negativity towards W7 I saw was people previously using Vista and hating it and going back to XP.