Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 30th Oct 2012 18:10 UTC
Steve Ballmer has just announced that in the first three days of being on sale, more than 4 million people have bought the Windows 8 upgrade. This doesn't count OEM installations or Microsoft's own Surface - just individual upgrades. Definitely a promising start for Windows 8, but then, these are most likely enthusiasts (I'm one of those four million), so we still don't know a whole lot. I'm patiently waiting for the response from regular consumers.
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RE[4]: Not Ringing My Bell So Far
by HappyGod on Wed 31st Oct 2012 02:40
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So let me get this straight. You think:
1. That MS deliberately rigged its upgrade assistant to not work on pirated copies that are trying to go legitimate.
2. That all the other people with that exact same issue must all be running pirated copies.
3. That because that one issue might (but isn't) be cause by piracy, that this somehow excuses all of the other bizarre issues, that are obviously not related.
Interesting.
RE[5]: Not Ringing My Bell So Far
by Morgan on Wed 31st Oct 2012 02:45
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Member since:2005-06-29
So let me get this straight. You think:
1. That MS deliberately rigged its upgrade assistant to not work on pirated copies that are trying to go legitimate.
1. That MS deliberately rigged its upgrade assistant to not work on pirated copies that are trying to go legitimate.
I never said that, don't misquote me. It's a given that if you're running a pirated or hacked OS, when you try legitimate updates they tend to fail. This is true of Windows as well as MacOS (Hackintoshes).
2. That all the other people with that exact same issue must all be running pirated copies.
I never said that either. Again you put words in my mouth to prove your point. Not the right way to do things, dude.
3. That because that one issue might (but isn't) be cause by piracy, that this somehow excuses all of the other bizarre issues, that are obviously not related.
Once again, I never said that. You have a perverse love of misquoting people, it seems. My issue is that if your methodology is knowingly flawed (as you proudly proclaimed when you said "This made me a bit nervous as I was running a pirate version of Win7") one has to wonder about the rest of your results.
I'll say it with emphasis this time so it sinks in: Run your tests on a valid Windows 7 install, or else a clean install of Windows 8, and I will take your evaluation at face value.
Edited 2012-10-31 02:47 UTC
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You might want to get your eyes checked (since we're apparently exchanging health advice). The very text I quoted from you was your first issue, and your words were it didn't work, which was a direct result of using a pirated copy and you gave Microsoft a negative point in your assessment as a result.
My point being, if you're going to go to the trouble to do a serious evaluation of a software product, do it with the legitimate software and not a compromised version. Whether or not the pirated copy was the cause of any issues (and you already admitted it caused an issue before denying it later), you're polluting the test pool. Therefore, I can't take you the least bit seriously.
Edit: And for what it's worth, yes there are a multitude of issues with Windows 8, which is why I have said in the past (after reviewing the release previews) that I'm on the fence about it altogether. I agree with you: There are a lot of problems they must address. My issue here is solely with your "designed to fail" experiment.
Edited 2012-10-31 02:40 UTC