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Microsoft offers Windows XP users $100 off new Windows 8 PCs
- JimmaDaRustla 13y agoMight need to scrounge around for my old XP license...
- ugexe 13y agoWere you already going to purchase a new windows PC? Is your time worth so little that you would look for an XP license and install it to something and drag it into a b&m store to save $100 on a windows PC from the microsoft store?
- Pxtl 13y agoMost geeks have one tech-toy they're contemplating buying at any given moment. If a $100 discount is enough to push them over? It's absolutely worth 20 minutes to rummage through your bin and find that old box you kept for spare parts. My time ain't free, but it's sure worth $100 for 20 minutes of rummaging.
- sliverstorm 13y agoscoff Your time is worth a pitiful $500/hour to you? ;)
- dudus 13y agopitful? What job pays that? If you manage to find a job that pays that amount you have $960,000 yearly salary.
- sliverstorm 13y agoI'm just poking fun at some of the people who swagger about on here, boasting their hourly rates.
- noir_lord 13y ago$300 ;), (60/20) * 100 Or about 0.5267BTC wait 0.612BTC no wait 0.5267 again :D
- sliverstorm 13y agoWhy did I think an hour had 100 minutes? It wasn't even that early in the morning.
- notatoad 13y agoyes
- massysett 13y agoHeck I've got two old laptops with practically dead batteries. I don't use them at all. Both have XP licenses; though I ran them with Linux, I since reinstalled Windows on one so it could serve as my "sacrificial Windows machine." I doubt I could even get $100 for them on Ebay. If I wanted a new computer anyway, then absolutely I would take them to the MS store and get the $100 if they had some decent machines in the deal.
- bananas 13y agoGlad I kept that ThinkPad T43! No wait... No Microsoft stores in the UK.
- lucb1e 13y agoMicrosoft has stores? I honestly didn't know that. Did know of Apple stores, but they also sell hardware instead of just Microchip Software.
- sliverstorm 13y agoMicrosoft sells the Surface family, and a large collection of peripherals.
- Joeri 13y agoI once passed a microsoft store. It is a place of silent contemplation, where every once in a while a lone shopper will be stranded and forced to lay hands on a thousand surfaces before finding their way back from where they came.
- derefr 13y agoThey also have an altar to the spirit of Kinect, with a mat upon which it is suggested to dance out your prayers. They are good for morning tai-chi.
- general_failure 13y agoIts a sad sad place. They are also strategically placed near apple stores which makes it even sadder. The apple stores are full and brimming with activity. The ms stores are almost always empty.
- bananas 13y agoI live right near an Apple store in Surrey, UK. I rarely see anyone buying anything - it's people playing with things.
- adamio 13y agoInteresting switch tactic, possibly could be expanded into MS Store discounts for showing Android, iOS, and Mac OS. Apple stores will transfer your PC docs to a Mac, I think for free via Personal Setup. Will MS stores do this too?
- r00fus 13y agoIs there really not corresponding service that PC stores provide? Perhaps that's a pain point that MS really needs to step up - i.e., help vendors selling Windows PCs to provide this service with some first-party cert or standards that a customer can use to feel more comfort around?
- tokenizerrr 13y agoOnly available in US and Canada, though.
- keithpeter 13y agoAnd the Apple store near me was full as I went past today (Birmingham UK). Nice to know Microsoft are not really interested in us.
- ParkerK 13y agoIt's likely legal stuff, when stuff isn't available in the UK or another foreign market, it's not that they 'don't care' it's that they simply haven't worked out all the details, or simply can't. The EU has a completely different set of laws than the US does, so promotions need to be rolled out separately.
- circa 13y agoI don't think there is a physical Microsoft store anywhere near me. There are 3 Apple Stores within an hour though.
- Pxtl 13y agoLooking at the store - it's frustrating how it seems like HP is the only company that makes the kind of machines I want to buy, and I loathe HP hardware.
- theklub 13y agoDoes HP actually make anything in their products other than the case?
- sliverstorm 13y agoLaptop motherboards are usually custom designed for the OEM's design, although sometimes that's contract work.
- ww520 13y agoI still have some of the XP CD and the Windows XP certificate. Do they count as proof of XP owner?
- agumonkey 13y agoToo bad selected machines cost at least 599$, I'd get an Asus T100 for my mother asap otherwise.
- general_failure 13y agoThis is a bad deal. Don't buy windows 8 even if its free. Its such a big step backwards.
- qntmfred 13y agoWindows 8 is a big step backwards from Windows XP?
- GFischer 13y agoFor some use cases, it certainly is. I'm extremely regretful of having installed it at the family law firm... I had to customize it a lot for it not to interfere with the normal business workflow, and it still manages to botch things. Many business users don't want anything to do with a touch screen interface, I still can't understand why it wasn't "opt-out".
- tarre 13y agoI think they would be better off offering Win7 at discounted price. My wife asked me to install Ubuntu on her new laptop after short experiment with Win8 and now she is also trying to convince her very untechnical parents to switch from Win XP to Ubuntu.
- brunnsbe 13y agoI understand Microsoft's concern but stuff like this will not help. Take my neighbor for example, I'm quite sure he will still be using his old computer until it breaks, happily running Windows XP with no idea that the support or updates (that he never have installed anyway) has ended, people like him doesn't understand what it's all about and therefore doesn't care. All I can do is to tell him that it's time for an upgrade but he will insist to keep on using it (at least I managed to install Firefox and Avast on his computer a couple of years ago).
- sliverstorm 13y agoIt would be fine to use antique computers, if they just weren't networked. Like the old 486sx running DOS in the labs at my alma mater. Although the air gap was a pain in the butt. Who ever thought I would be buying floppies in 2011.
- ProfOak_ 13y agoThis is kind of like getting the "Windows tax" refund. Neat.
- pasbesoin 13y agoLet me buy a damned non-OEM, non-third-party-warehoused Windows 7 (Pro) license for my mother, who is NOT comfortable and not likely to become comfortable with Windows 8. Killing Windows 7 license sales scant months before XP EOL is yet another clusterf-ck on MS's part. P.S. "The customer is always right." Now that you have more effective competition, MS, it may be time to heed this. P.P.S. If anyone has a valid, reliable source for these (I mean, for purchase -- I'm not asking for anything dodge-y), I'd appreciate a pointer.