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I will gladly accept all Windows 8 or 8.1 license keys anyone doesn't want :)
Indianatone said: ?
I am positive the fact that M$ have stopped fooling around with 8.1 and decided it is done and buried that they will give 8 and 8.1 users a free upgrade path to Windows 9. It may not be an upgrade install and may need work on the users part but I can see no other choice for M$ after the OS that was very much unloved. Imagine how many licence cards and DVD packs that will end up in the landfill as no one wants them.
It sounds as if what I'm hearing that free upgrade path rumours will not materialize.
(PS - is there a reason I am unable to "quote" a previous poster?)
Jody Thornton, post: 35140, member: 387 said:
I doubt anyone can say for certain at this point. All we have are lots of rumors and until MS actually says what their intentions are everything is just speculating.
I do think that MS will try to offer a heavily discounted price for early adapters of Win9.
Other than that.. I have no clue what they plan on doing. OH yes,, we should see IE12 in Win9.
I think this is the most likely scenario. Just like the did when Windows 8 first came out.I do think that MS will try to offer a heavily discounted price for early adapters of Win9.
It would save them dumping stuff in landfills if 8.x and Nine both have the same keys? So an 8 key could be used to upgrade to Nine.
Indianatone, post: 35148, member: 49 said:
Where are you getting that from?? No way would MS use the same key for Win8.x and Win9.
I was just contemplating. That is what the forum is for, throwing ideas our there. There is no reason why they could not do that, they did it with 8.1 which at 3 GB Download was a new OS. If they decided to give 9 away to 8 users that is.If they don't a lot of 8 users will feel they have been robbed.BunnyJ, post: 35149, member: 210 said:
I second what Ztruker wrote:Indianatone, post: 35148, member: 49 said:I will gladly accept all Windows 8 or 8.1 license keys anyone doesn't want :)
Sense you are just contemplating why it it that you seem to believe that all 8 users should have a free upgrade after four years of Windows 8. . .just wondering. . .:) (BTW remember MS did not force you, or anyone else to use 8, it was a choice, and noting more.Indianatone, post: 35152, member: 49 said: