Micrsoft NEEDS to bring back the $40 Windows 8.1 upgrade.


Should Microsoft bring back the $40 Windows 8.1 upgrade  

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  1. 1. Should Microsoft bring back the $40 Windows 8.1 upgrade

    • Yes
      71
    • No
      6
    • Maybe
      5
  2. 2. What should the upgrade price be

    • $15
      28
    • $40
      39


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Seeing how the market share of XP is still quite large I think Microsoft needs to bring back the $40 upgrade price to Windows 8 like they did when Windows 8 first came out. In that short amount of time I upgraded more people to a new version of windows than I had in 9 years. Sure some machine are to old for Windows 8 but i'm sure there are a good chunk of them that would run just fine with windows 8, like core 2 duo machines running XP.

 

I reolize there was never a $40 Windows 8.1 upgrade just a $40 Windows 8 upgrade, but you know what I mean.

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That would be nice. I would upgrade a notebook. I don't thinking paying over $100 for a US is worth it any more.

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That would be nice. I would upgrade a notebook. I don't thinking paying over $100 for a US is worth it any more.

 

I have 3 computers I would probably upgrade.

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Windows 8 should be available for a fixed price of $14 (That was their initial promotion)

 

Once they have captured the market, then they will recover through app sales.

 

But current app implementation is pathetic. Modern apps should behave as desktop apps with full flexibility.

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I suggest if promotion would be "Should Microsoft bring back the $40 Windows 8.1 upgrade".... It will help reducing piracy in third world countries as well.

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That would do nothing. Windows XP users are more limited by the fact that they are using old hardware that isn't capable of running any Windows NT 6.x OS.

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That would do nothing. Windows XP users are more limited by the fact that they are using old hardware that isn't capable of running any Windows NT 6.x OS.

 

Not entirely true, I do see a bunch of Core 2 duo XP machines.

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I upgraded several computers because of the ?24.99 introductory offer and I know of many others that took advantage of it. Many would not have been upgraded had the price been the usual ?110.

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I jumped on the $14.99 upgrade deal back when it launched and don't regret it one bit.  Make anything cheap enough and people will buy it instead of pirate it.

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I jumped on the $14.99 upgrade deal back when it launched and don't regret it one bit.  Make anything cheap enough and people will buy it instead of pirate it.

 

At the $40 price I bought 3 licenses

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Windows 8.0 & 8.1 will eventually be free much like Linux distros are currently. I upgraded one machine to W8, and purchased others from Dell with W8 installed.

I'm reasonably happy with W8.1, but there is room for improvements to the OS

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I bought Win8 during the initial offer.  Just this week I installed Mint Linux on my girlfriends XP PC (actually it's a Vista PC but XP is now on it - long story!), so she can get used to it before XP support expires.

 

If they brought back the initial offer, I would buy Win8 for her.  I myself am on Win8, cannot upgrade to 8.1 because of some CPU restriction.

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@warwagon

 

Rather than focusing poll question at Upgrade only, why not you also add option of permanent price drop to about 50$ or under..

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@warwagon

 

Rather than focusing poll question at Upgrade only, why not you also add option of permanent price drop to about 50$ or under..

 

Because most people get windows 8 with a new computer. Not counting the ones that build their own. I'm trying to see how many people would "upgrade" to windows 8.1 if the price is right.

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Because most people get windows 8 with a new computer. Not counting the ones that build their own. I'm trying to see how many people would "upgrade" to windows 8 if the price is right.

 

Satisfied. Analogy is right in this sense.

LOL!!! Personally I want Windows prices to be competitive.

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While $15 would be nice, at the end of the day they are mostly a software company, so I think we need a middle ground. For a software company I think $15 is to cheap, but  I think at $40 they can still me a pretty good profit.

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$15 for the digital version and more if you want a DVD that you can use again later if you have to.  That $40 price for the DVD also covered production and shipping I'm sure, so it's still a deal.   Maybe they can run it again for a limited time with update 1 like they did with 8.0.  Make it from April 8th when it goes live till end of the summer, then run the same promo again when Windows 9 hits.

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