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Microsoft starts $40 Windows 8 upgrade sales |
October 27, 2012
Microsoft on Friday opened its virtual store and began selling upgrades to Windows 8 Pro for $39.99, making good on a promise made last summer.
The upgrade, which must be downloaded and installed via a utility called “Windows 8 Upgrade Assistant,” can be applied to Windows XP-, Vista-, and Windows 7-powered systems.
Microsoft announced the upgrade in July, a bit more than a month after it issued the last of three public previews, but before it wrapped up its work on the new OS.
The upgrade does the most thorough job when migrating a machine from Windows 7, which is the only edition that conducts a “full” upgrade, the label for an upgrade that brings along everything, including data files, user accounts, Windows settings and installed applications.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
Link: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9232961/Microsoft_starts_40_Windows_8_upgrade_sales
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