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disolitude on 29 October 2012
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superchunk said:
disolitude said:
mothman said:
I wonder how many people had to take their copy back to the store like I did. I needed a full license because I was forced to reformat my hard drive to get it to work again. I was assured that I'd bought a full license but once I'd installed it, it asked for another license key during activation. When I put my key in again it told me the license key was only for upgrades not clean installs.

Now I have a 30 day eval of Windows 8 until Tiger Direct gets their OEM licenses that Microsoft hasn't bothered to ship yet. The only reason I bought it was because it was cheaper than buying Windows 7 and my son can play games on it and he can't on Linux. The Futureshop I bought it from told me I was the only one to buy a copy on Friday when I returned mine. Ballmer's just blowing smoke.

Anyway, I can't see a lot of people going for it. People used to XP and Windows 7 won't be able to find Sweet FA on Windows 8, it's a totally different paradigm.

You can do a quick registry edit that takes 10 seconds to fix this upgrade/clean install fiasco.

linky please?

http://www.techbeast.net/2012/10/26/windows-8-clean-installation-with-an-upgrade-license/