Microsoft contemplating free version of Windows 8.1 for Windows 7 users

If you actually "paid" for that dribble than you shouldn't be expected to buy apps. I am talking about the purpose of Microsoft giving Windows 8 away for "FREE" to Windows 7 users. It's not because they are in a good mood.

As I said before though, some people are happy to pay so that they can pay some more. Blizzards Warcraft Online popularity is a shining example of this kind of a scheme. Whatever floats your boat.

Microsoft has already conned all the pidgeons into paying money upfront for the online store application called Windows 8. Now that they have taken all the pidgeons money they are giving the OS away for free. Hilarious!!!! :)
But let's look at the bright side. If you were a smart pidgeon you only got had for $14.99 if I remember correctly. Not too shabby.

Then how can you talk about FACTS when you are speculating about something that has not even been anounced, get your FACTS straight.

Your opinion is yours alone, so you can't actually be wrong in your head, keep it that way. Don't talk for the rest of us "pidgeons" that are actually quite happy with W8.

Also, go look in the dictionary for FACTS, you seem to be using it wrong.
 
My facts are perfectly straight.

Your the same type of person who goes to the all-you-can-eat buffet and the restaurant loses money. Just because "you" haven't spent one dime in their app store doesn't mean it wasn't built for that purpose. Yeezus!!(thanks Kayne, now I can blaspheme without actually blaspheming). Your just milking the cow for all it's worth. Buying something and using it against its intended purpose is done all the time in life. So what makes you think your so smart? Your probably the type of customer that makes Microsofts skin crawl. The purpose of *giving* Windows 8 away for free is to make money off apps and services purchased through Windows 8.

Thanks for letting me know that I don't have to use Windows 8. In that case, I won't. Still using Windows 7 Ultimate and I don't have the slightest intention of budging. Windows 9 is within view. I will keep an open mind towards "that" end but it honestly doesn't look good. Free-to-play operating systems are probably the norm going forward from this point in the game thanks to the ubiquity of Linux. Microsoft's hand has been forced and their dominance has come to an end.

"Your" indicates possession, referring to something belonging to you.
"You're" is a contraction of the words "you" and "are" and would help most of sentences to make sense... grammatically anyway.

On the topic of making sense, I am curious about the apparent "ubiquity" of Linux. So, are you saying that the predictions Linux may reach 2% of the desktop market this year are causing Microsoft so much concern that they are now considering offering a free version of Windows 8?
There's a "reply" button at the lower right hand corner of each post, why not use it? That way we'll know who "you're", (used correctly), replying to.

ATM, it looks like "you're" (again used correctly), spouting grammatical largesse into the wind while talking to yourself. I relish the role of, "Grammar Nazi", as much as the next troll. However, I already know how to post using quotes, and I am at least as familiar with written English as you.

So, with that in mind, I can even correctly use these three homophones , there, their, & they're."There", is an adverb, "their", is a possessive pronoun, and "they're ", is a contraction, using the 3rd person indicative pronoun, with the 3rd person present tense of the verb, "to be".

But yeah, I kind of agree that Linux being, "ubiquitous", is likely wishful thinking on the part of, "TheBigFatClown".

So now, have a good one, sleep tight, and don't let the bedbugs bite....(y)
 
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I like Windows 7 because I can use, "Aero", to easily turn "erotic art", into a wallpaper slideshow.

With that said, (and done), Windows 7 gives me a tall boy, from the instant it boots!

Try that with yer dumb ole Windows 8.....:p

But if the situation lasts for more than 4 hours, what should I do first, call my doctor, or simply install a copy of Windows 8?
so basically windows 8 for you is windows sh8t? :)
I have downloaded a free app for windows 8/8.1 which shows aerotic pics in a slide show. :)
 
so basically windows 8 for you is windows sh8t? :)
I have downloaded a free app for windows 8/8.1 which shows aerotic pics in a slide show. :)
Well, you have to admit, I have that same functionality, and the price of Windows 8 still in my pocket, "to boot". (Almost clever as puns go, that one).

You say, "slide show", is this changing the desktop wallpaper? Because even the Windows Picture viewer, will generate a "slide show", but you can't really work through it, in the same manner as ever changing desktop wallpaper.

I love your spelling of "aerotic" by the way, it's so very Greek....;)

But really, it always comes back to, "you can buy an application" , (or find freeware), to make Windows 8, work like Windows 7.

Windows 7 already works like Windows 7, at no extra charge, aggravation, or time invested, sorry.

Epilogue: The post I put up was humor (#49), pure and simple, nothing more. People tell me "captaincranky, your screen name suits you", yadda, yadda, yadda. But really, the rest of you should know by now, that nobody is going to change any one else's mind on this topic. And yet, you rave on and on. So, am I the only one who enjoys arguing for argument's sake? I think not!
 
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Windows h8ters will continue to h8te it...windows 8/8.1 supporters will continue to love it...
the best antivirus, the best OS, the best windows OS yet, or the best Linux variant... a never-ending story...:)
 
Wow! I can't say you can do 100% in Windows 8.1 Pro MC 64-bit. I find it odd for Chrome Browser with Flash 51 /32-bit will not display certain objects in a game I play online.Who can play a game where the targets are invisible your weapons firing are also invisble. Where as Pale Moon with Flash 51 /64-bit will do it. But on the same Windows 7 SP1 Ultimate 64-bit I don't have this issue. Because of this issue now, have re-did the TCP/IP Stacks, Changed the internal for TCP/IP and it worked then it gone right back again with missing object in game play. I guess for now I'll use the other Windows7 SPI Utlmated 64-bit I runs everything icky split. I can tell you that Windows 8.1 Pro MC 64-bit Network to and from my NAS and other Windows 8.1 Pro and Windows 7 Ultimate all run full speed. Just that the Chrome Browser which I need to run Xmouse controller. That only works with Chrome.

So much you can do with Flash delete the cache for flash remove Chrome clean out the system then install a fresh copy of Chrome. I might put back in older version of Chrome to see if that fixes the issue under Windows 8.1

These glitches in 8.1 keeps me from putting 8.1 on all the systems I have here. I still holding on to Windows 7 U-64. Until I see a more stable 8.1.

Now on the tablet running 8.1, everything seems fine. But again memory needs to be cleared daily, file stacking of junk data in the OS sub-system still needs a lot more cleaning then it does in Windows 7 SP1. That Metro UI requires a of resources. That tablet I use has 320GB HDD SATA2 2.5 with 16GB SDHC part of that is 4096 for Ready Boost. Tablet has 2GB DDR3 Memory. Once everything is cleaned it runs full speed. Once you run Metro Apps dig around in Crippled desktop view you can clearly see how things tend to slow down again.

I got my Android 10.1" Toshiba Thrive on ICS on left and then Skytab 9.7" Windows 8.1 Pro on the right both on are mic boom stand and both use the same bracket for iPad for mic boom stand. I can multi-task between the two tablets.
 
But yeah, I kind of agree that Linux being, "ubiquitous", is likely wishful thinking on the part of, "TheBigFatClown".

So now, have a good one, sleep tight, and don't let the bedbugs bite....(y)

It already is ubiquitous on cellphones. It has 74% of the mobile market. And depending on where Microsoft takes Windows 9 in the very near future, I personally don't find it to be wishful thinking at all.
If Microsoft does the smart thing and releases Windows 9 as a free operating system it will make it that much harder. But I don't see a surge in Linux desktop installations as an impossibility. I myself have tried a few different distros on occasions. I find them more than adequate for most tasks.

Oh, you do realize that Android is simply a derivative of Linux, right? Maybe that's why your brain can't fathom the possibilities. *shrugs*.

Most people thought Titanic couldn't sink either. Something to think about.
 
It already is ubiquitous on cellphones. It has 74% of the mobile market. And depending on where Microsoft takes Windows 9 in the very near future, I personally don't find it to be wishful thinking at all.
If Microsoft does the smart thing and releases Windows 9 as a free operating system it will make it that much harder. But I don't see a surge in Linux desktop installations as an impossibility. I myself have tried a few different distros on occasions. I find them more than adequate for most tasks.

Oh, you do realize that Android is simply a derivative of Linux, right? Maybe that's why your brain can't fathom the possibilities. *shrugs*.

Most people thought Titanic couldn't sink either. Something to think about.

Your thought processing is a bit odd to say the least. For you and me installing a linux distro and start working on a computer is no big deal, at all. For that guy who wants to get facebook and print an image... wow that's a whole other thing.

But I don't see a surge in Linux desktop installations as an impossibility. I myself have tried a few different distros on occasions. I find them more than adequate for most tasks.
Well I do think it's an imposibility, here are the facts why:
http://www.netmarketshare.com/operating-system-market-share.aspx?qprid=10&qpcustomd=0

Most people thought Titanic couldn't sink either. Something to think about.
Where did this come from? What for? Please do explain.

I didn't get your point from the reply, was there one?
 
Microsoft doesn't want Windows 8 to fail, and once again being stubborn about basic supply & demand has put them in a tough spot.
It's like a deal on Steam when a developer drops a game to $5 for a weekend only to find out not that many people bought it anyways. Makes you think if anyone wants your product, even if its free or basically free.
 
If Microsoft pays me to install Windows 8.1 (like $100), I would do it. After the check cleared I would wipe it and reload Windows 7.
 
OK,I really don't want, or feel the need to, "upgrade", to Windows 8. If you have, and you're yappy (*) with that decision, feel free to look down on me with autocratic disdain.

I don't believe in Bitcoin, you do. I don't want Window 8, you say it's the best thing since sliced bread.

(BTW, I never, ever buy sliced bread, haven't for damned near the last 20 years").

Really, wear Win 8 in good health. But, if you think a slew of other websites talking down to me as well, are going to change my mind, "you do need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows"

It already is ubiquitous on cellphones. It has 74% of the mobile market. And depending on where Microsoft takes Windows 9 in the very near future, I personally don't find it to be wishful thinking at all.
Oh, well I do run outside of the pack. I have a 6 year old laptop with Vista on it. I rarely use it, and have no intention of buying another, until it turns to dust. I like to drive my car or motorcycle while looking at the road, so count me out of the cell phone market.

As far as, "mobile devices" and cell phone contracts go, I think it's great that our government is kind enough to print entitlement checks, so that the laziest, and most indolent among us, can yap & text to their heart's content No doubt from behind the wheel of their Cadillacs. (Oh, I know the government has clamped down so, "welfare Cadillacs", aren't as prevalent as the once were, but trust me they're out there).

As for me, I'll adopt Linux when I can put my Photoshop products on the desktop, without some bull s*** version of "WINE", which is always 3 or 4 years behind the current version of whatever windows program.

M$ is dropping its pants on the price of Win 8, since you can't charge $100.00 bucks or so, to equip a $99.00 device with an OS.

And lastly, as far as the future goes, I think it's also just as likely that M$ may try and float a subscription version of Windows, predicated on how well Adobe, (which is more or less, a monopoly in its own right), does with its subscription only CS products.

(*) I misspelled "happy", but I decided to let it stand, forgive me.:D
 
What puts me of from windows 8 is the fact they trying to move everything to the cloud next thing u know windows itself will be running from the cloud. my internet and most peoples internet wont allow everything to be cloud based its just far to slow.
 
What puts me of from windows 8 is the fact they trying to move everything to the cloud next thing u know windows itself will be running from the cloud.
Like many have suggested earlier, the possibility does exist M$ may try to float a subscription model of Windows.
my internet and most peoples internet wont allow everything to be cloud based its just far to slow.
No to mention far too invasive, and you'd still have to have internet service to use your own computer. If anybody wanted buy into that crap, they might as well go out and buy a "Chrome Book", now
 
OK,I really don't want, or feel the need to, "upgrade", to Windows 8. If you have, and you're yappy (*) with that decision, feel free to look down on me with autocratic disdain.

Really, wear Win 8 in good health. But, if you think a slew of other websites talking down to me as well, are going to change my mind, "you do need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows"

I'm not looking down on you, I'm not looking down on anyone and I pasted a "slew" of other websites so people could actually see that W8 is more than just the Metro interface (Which is mainly what they ***** about). I don't care if someone loves or hates it, I do care when people start saying you are a pidgeon because you liked it, or that it's a efe-tard scheme to get money out of the store, saying comments as facts.

And usually I get the normal answer of "well then why would I want to use W8?" so I left some "slew" of links so that those who are actually interested in trying it out but don't see why they should could take a look on actual changes, again, besides metro ui.
 
I'm not looking down on you, I'm not looking down on anyone and I pasted a "slew" of other websites so people could actually see that W8 is more than just the Metro interface
You have to admit, you are insistent about the fact the change should be made though, right?

I rang in with a purely satirical post about the interface of "Windows 7's artistic potential".

I really do think you and TBFC, are arguing for argument's sake, and aren't going to change one another's mind, That spills over in , (both of your) approaches to replying,

I don't need a computer that's "faster than any of those I have now. I don't need any more "features", than I have now

So, those, "power points" in your pitch, are meaningless, and thereby ineffective on me. Sorry

Sorry for trying to break the tension at post #49.

Butt I'm not sorry at all, for shamelessly trolling a brand new "grammar Nazi", at post #66.
 
I'm insistent in the fact that everyone should try to give it a chance before emitting judgement over something they've read in somewhere, specially over something as non-transcendent as Metro UI's layout when it can work the same or better than the old start menu.

I won't make any comment on the your grammar nazi phase, it was called for :p
 
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