Only for those who bought recently as said by MS and for everyone else its 2k which itself is a great price for licensed copy of Windows.
I know but there if anyone fill the fake date purchase after june 2 2012. He will get promo code for the discount too. So, whenever microsoft ask for the windows 7 for verfication keys simply put the genuine key of the PC.
This trick is done by thousands of people and they are perfectly fine with this. In the end of the day you are getting a genuine windows 8 pro for such a low price.
Whatever MS is getting - 699 or 1999 is better than nothing. Win8 pro would cost around 11k after discount is over. Most people have gone the pirate way if this was the price from Day 1. Or would have stayed with Win7. Such low price serves many purposes for MS
1. Stronger market figures.... Increase in market share.... because only licensed copies are counted
2. Better adoption rate... (even better than actual) Suppose 10 people had win7... 5 were pirated.... 4 out of 10 upgraded to win8. The adoption rate will only be calculated in terms og number of win7 licenses sold that is 5. Hence adoption rate for MS becomes 4/5*100 = 80% instead of just 40% which would mean failure of Win8
3. MS wants people to love Metro. Many hate but for those who love will be tempted to buy WP8 phnes
The loophole is no longer working. It asks for genuine key. I tried with many pirated keys as well as my wife's laptop's genuine home basic key which is more than a year old. Nothing worked. Only choice is to pay Rs. 1999. I am thinking of letting her stay on 7 right now and will buy her a new PC later with Pro license.
Ya its not working anymore !!
Anyway, I am looking for a complete REVIEW of Windows 8 Pro from FORUM MEMBERS. Please someone put up a REVIEW of Windows 8 in the REVIEW section of this forum.
What I have understood till now is:
- Windows 8 has actually TWO OS environment built into ONE. [ which simply means TWO different Apps for the same task, eg: Mail and Windows Live 2012. ]
- The Metro apps are full screen apps and you cannot minimise them.
- You cannot switch between Metro Apps quickly.
- You don't even know which Metro Apps are currently running.
- Windows 7 like desktop environment has MS Office Ribbon in the explorer all over the place.
- Games developers are not impressed by Windows 8 Metro UI.
The loophole is no longer working. It asks for genuine key. I tried with many pirated keys as well as my wife's laptop's genuine home basic key which is more than a year old. Nothing worked. Only choice is to pay Rs. 1999. I am thinking of letting her stay on 7 right now and will buy her a new PC later with Pro license.