No 30 day windows 8 Activation !

[MrNeil]

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/gra...ion,17049.html

Good or Bad ??

[shaithis]

Sounds like they don't want anyone to try before they buy this time....

I wonder why?

[OilSheikh]

Sounds like they don't want anyone to try before they buy this time....

I wonder why?

Cough ... wonder why indeed .. cough

[Splash]

..and that's why they're offering out a free 90 day trial

Honestly, the FUD is shocking sometimes.

Probably won't buy it for a while myself, but the number of people just repeating what they read on The Register and other sites is pretty shocking.

[finlay666]

People that were interested in trying it probably got the release preview anyway, instead of waiting a while till it was out then getting a trial then (as mentioned, Enterprise has a 90 day trial)

It's not even out yet FFS, the speculation is getting to Apple proportions now

[pctech2012]

Or maybe they realise people are likely to hate it but once activated no refund can be given for the licence

[shaithis]

FUD? 90 days only on Enterprise........like everyone knows someone with an Enterprise disk! They are severely limiting the amount of people that can try before buying.

It's plainly obvious they are forcing metro on us to make money from phones and tablets......a despicable business practice and they deserve all the backlash they get over it.

It's going to be like Windows 3.1 again........replacement shell because the shipping one is not fit for purpose. Perhaps Symantec can dig up the Norton Dashboard product for a revival?

[pctech2012]

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[Terbinator]

FUD? 90 days only on Enterprise........like everyone knows someone with an Enterprise disk! They are severely limiting the amount of people that can try before buying.

It's plainly obvious they are forcing metro on us to make money from phones and tablets......a despicable business practice and they deserve all the backlash they get over it.

It's going to be like Windows 3.1 again........replacement shell because the shipping one is not fit for purpose. Perhaps Symantec can dig up the Norton Dashboard product for a revival?

The 90 day evaluation is a download though.

[dangel]

The 90 day evaluation is a download though.

Yup, inconvenient truth but yes MS do let people try it. They did this for 7 too IIRC.

I just tried it myself and it's easily downloadable (even when not using my MSDN account).

[MrNeil]

Only problem if do the 90 days ,you have to uninstall it !!!

Surly its a better to be able to keep it and just activate it if you want to buy

[Agent]

A real shame. I've never put a key in Windows 7 when setting up, purely so I can get the drivers and apps installed and know there were no major issues before activation.

[dangel]

A real shame. I've never put a key in Windows 7 when setting up, purely so I can get the drivers and apps installed and know there were no major issues before activation.

Agreed - it was very useful (especially since I paste my keys in from MSDN once i'm up and running).

There is a workaround though:

"Just by ading an ei.cfg file with the folowing content in the source folder of a Retail MSDN image:

[EditionID]

[Channel]
Retail

[VL]
0

The setup will not ask you anymore about a key, and will give you acces to select wich version you want to install - Core or Pro. The setup will then continue as for Windows 7. At a certain point after install it will ask you for a key but you may skip this step, and you are in.

Please note that [EditionID] should be left blank in order to let you select between the Core and Pro versions.
Also in the [Channel] field you may use Retail ( as shown ) but also Eval or OEM.

Also, please note that this only let you install those versions, but you will still need to enter a key in order to activate Windows."

I will try this later as I often do temp. installs for testing etc in VMs but basically it sounds like it should..

[dangel]

...and it does work indeed!

Fantastic

No key required initially, lets you choose which version and then when it does ask you for a key (once it's installed) you can simply skip that step too.

[ben1066]

Only problem if do the 90 days ,you have to uninstall it !!!

Surly its a better to be able to keep it and just activate it if you want to buy

You can rearm once, so you actually get 180 days.