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Taking a snow day today? You might want to join your fellow Reg readers in assessing what Windows 8 actually costs. We don’t mean in the sense of estimating the financial fallout of poor Q4 sales for Microsoft and the PC makers, but rather: what do you get for your money? Putting Metro aside and forgetting the fact you must …

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  1. Miek
    Linux

    "What does Windows 8 cost?" -- Your soul and your sanity

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    1. Anonymous Coward
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      Again, it depends on your use case. For a creative workstation I can see it being a right pain in the behind. For most home users who surf, email and use IM then it makes sense on a tablet machine. On a laptop or desktop less so.

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    2. Nuno
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      Facepalm

      If you need to ask, then you can't afford it!

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    3. N2
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      Trollface

      And

      an eternity of fiddling to get it to work like your last version did, only to discover that some of your programs wont run at all.

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  2. Gerard Krupa

    Brand new PC?

    Or buy the system builder edition.

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    1. b166er
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      Re: Brand new PC?

      Or just go here?

      UK link for Windows 8

      Maybe that's been 'overlooked' :)

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  3. RyokuMas
    Joke

    What does Windows 8 cost?

    A lifetime of bile and attacks from Eadon if you install it!

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  4. Flocke Kroes Silver badge

    Serious question

    Does using a licensed copy of Windows 8 permit FACT to do a software license audit raid on your home and office?

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  5. Anonymous Coward
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    "What does Windows 8 cost?" -- The respect of your IT colleges.

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    1. Mark Allread
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      Colleges eh?

      Well done braniac.

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  6. Mark Allread
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    Another day, another win 8 hater story on the reg

    "I don’t mean in the sense of what’s the fallout of poor Q4 sales for Microsoft and the PC makers"

    Really? <sigh>

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    1. mhoneywell
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      Re: Another day, another win 8 hater story on the reg

      It hardly seems like a Win 8 'hater' story, as you incorrectly label it.

      It seems to be a fairly serious opportunity to get some information on Windows 8 licensing. If it needs labeling beyond it's headline, as you seem to insist, that would be closer to a Win 8 'lover' story, surely.

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  7. Mark Allread
    Meh

    New PC?

    "Putting Metro aside and forgetting the fact you must buy a brand new PC"

    What does this even mean? I've in-place upgraded on 3 different PCs (one a tabet) without any issues.

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  8. rurwin
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    Anyone else see the huge warning sign that is a licensing regime so convoluted that you need a boot camp to understand it?

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  9. Spoonsinger
    Unhappy

    Nothing to do with the licencing aspect but.....

    if they had actually hadn't put as much effort into removing random features, (partially in most circumstances), as they did in making the underlying kernel quite good, we wouldn't be having this discussion. UI now sucks Satan's plumbs for most users - and MS know it - however the actual o/s in general is actually quite good.

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  10. Zmodem

    add extension to windows explorer datail columns and to windows 7, you cannot rename file descriptions with ease, and every file saying winamp media file is bollox, to right click and open in soundforge or other editors

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