News - Windows XP to Windows 8 upgrade price is set at £25

[Godric]

i tried the beta or release candidate when it came out .... wasn't impresed at all i'm afraid i am sticking with windows 7

[dangel]

I really cannot see how you can say that, Vista was truly awful.
Win 7 is miles ahead of Vista in terms of both performance and being a lot more user friendly.

That said Win 7 is probably what Vista Should have been all along.

I think you missed the point somewhat by pulling out just that phrase but Vista introduced a lot of the changes that made 7 so great - the new driver model (stability), UAC (security), search in start (ease of use) etc etc. Sure 7 refined them but they weren't new as such and 7 derives from Vista's codebase. Vista suffered at the hands of drivers for 1.5 years and this has forever marred it's fate but in reality it was a big step up from XP and only really sucked on older hardware or laptops because it suffered from heavy resource usage and hard drive chatter. At the time I preferred it on a Q6600/4GB system for work. But we digress, it's not really the point at hand - it's just that the "it's just a service pack for Windows x" phrase comes up every time a new version launches for the reasons I mentioned. 8 has plenty of "new" but it's easy to dismiss it as derivative if you so wish (and that will always be the case). The funny thing is 8 is far more radical in some areas, and thus more divisive, and yet it's just a service pack..

[geoffmail500]

not a bad price but it's around £9.40 in the us ($15). seems a bit cheeky as they can't use the whole us vat is less and uk overheads are higher over hear argument this time.

[firefistace]

I think getting windows 8 is mostly pointless if you havent got a touch screen laptop/pc