Channel 9 Forums - Coffeehouse - Windows Upgrade http://mschnlnine.vo.llnwd.net/d1/Dev/App_Themes/C9/images/feedimage.png Channel 9 Forums - Coffeehouse - Windows Upgrade http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums Channel 9 keeps you up to date with the latest news and behind the scenes info from Microsoft that developers love to keep up with. From LINQ to SilverLight – Watch videos and hear about all the cool technologies coming and the people behind them. http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums en Wed, 22 May 2013 01:26:48 GMT Wed, 22 May 2013 01:26:48 GMT Rev9 14 -14 -1 Coffeehouse - Windows Upgrade Last Oct. 26 2012 Microsoft launched their windows 8 Pro. Although, I know how windows is user friendly in people and price is reasonable yet upgrading to windows 8 Pro is something to carefully think of. Now, I wanted to know if anyone upgraded their windows from windows 8pro and if is it easier to use than windows7

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/Windows-Upgrade/8c59518470c846a48654a0fc005f59ef#8c59518470c846a48654a0fc005f59ef Thu, 01 Nov 2012 05:47:09 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/Windows-Upgrade/8c59518470c846a48654a0fc005f59ef#8c59518470c846a48654a0fc005f59ef Benjie 14 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/oniexn/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - Windows Upgrade @oniexn:Yes, I have upgraded and have found it to be easier to use than Windows 7 provided that you are happy to embrace the new Apps and interface.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/Windows-Upgrade/eec6d06a3fb7480bb5a3a0fc009971d3#eec6d06a3fb7480bb5a3a0fc009971d3 Thu, 01 Nov 2012 09:18:40 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/Windows-Upgrade/eec6d06a3fb7480bb5a3a0fc009971d3#eec6d06a3fb7480bb5a3a0fc009971d3 Ian Walker 14 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/Ian2/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - Windows Upgrade @oniexn: No problems at all. Upgraded from Win7 Home Premium. The new interface stuff takes a few days to get used to, but that's in every variant of Windows 8, not just Pro.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/Windows-Upgrade/479f6ac107dd4b06afe9a0fc00e27509#479f6ac107dd4b06afe9a0fc00e27509 Thu, 01 Nov 2012 13:44:30 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/Windows-Upgrade/479f6ac107dd4b06afe9a0fc00e27509#479f6ac107dd4b06afe9a0fc00e27509 Scott 14 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/spivonious/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - Windows Upgrade 12 year old put it on his machine, upgrade went nice, everything worked after install. Then it did a reboot/"refresh" a little thereafter, and uninstalled all the programs that was on his machine. Was kind of weird, not sure what the happy path to that was.

Just not sure if I can put the same Pro upgrade on my computer, how many machines a license handles.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/Windows-Upgrade/918df771ef77445a85e1a0fc00eb784a#918df771ef77445a85e1a0fc00eb784a Thu, 01 Nov 2012 14:17:19 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/Windows-Upgrade/918df771ef77445a85e1a0fc00eb784a#918df771ef77445a85e1a0fc00eb784a Harlequin 14 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/Harlequin/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - Windows Upgrade @Harlequin: I believe the upgrade license is limited to one machine. You can put it on yours, but only after removing it from your son's.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/Windows-Upgrade/7c1b502c7d794f5f81c3a0fc01187988#7c1b502c7d794f5f81c3a0fc01187988 Thu, 01 Nov 2012 17:01:10 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/Windows-Upgrade/7c1b502c7d794f5f81c3a0fc01187988#7c1b502c7d794f5f81c3a0fc01187988 Scott 14 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/spivonious/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - Windows Upgrade Gotcha. Guess it's also cheaper buying online. Think it's $40 online and was $60 or so when I bought it in Future Shop.

Does suck they don't have a family/home package like they did for Windows 7, that was damn handy.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/Windows-Upgrade/eb06c45288e7477ab1e2a0fc011bb36e#eb06c45288e7477ab1e2a0fc011bb36e Thu, 01 Nov 2012 17:12:55 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/Windows-Upgrade/eb06c45288e7477ab1e2a0fc011bb36e#eb06c45288e7477ab1e2a0fc011bb36e Harlequin 14 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/Harlequin/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - Windows Upgrade If you want easy, you are better off with Win8 RT, not Pro. Free from virus worries and you don't have to  don't think about app installation and etc.

If you want to work with legacy apps like Win7 apps, I personally think the desktop experience is left to be desired, because the taskbar is not updated to work with metro apps. If you want to incorporate your metro experience on you beloved taskbar, it is not supported.

As for apps, some are better, like metro photo with SkyDrive build-in. But metro mail sux compare to Live Mail which allows you to convert an email into event easily. Also you cannot do many things on metro mail because it is not build for Hotmail, aka create new calendar and etc.

Casual free games on metro is great. Free fun games installed effortlessly without worrying spyware and etc.

It is easy until you want to use advanced features such as backup, which has like 7 different offerings buried deep inside in either metro settings or desktop control panel. Reset is exclusive to metro settings. 

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/Windows-Upgrade/d65b5d56823c4ab59f54a0fc01422cac#d65b5d56823c4ab59f54a0fc01422cac Thu, 01 Nov 2012 19:33:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/Windows-Upgrade/d65b5d56823c4ab59f54a0fc01422cac#d65b5d56823c4ab59f54a0fc01422cac magicalclick 14 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/magicalclick/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - Windows Upgrade Yeah, it's also easy until you want advanced features like listening to a video (like music off of Youtube or the Build session videos on this site) in Metro IE10 or the Videos app while using the Start Screen or other Metro apps. If you find yourself doing that, you'll want to steer clear of Win8 or stick to desktop apps.

PS: I'd be happy to be proven wrong, but judging from his profile page, I'm pretty sure the OP is just SEO spam.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/Windows-Upgrade/6d7d780df3aa4d148272a0fc014bce5d#6d7d780df3aa4d148272a0fc014bce5d Thu, 01 Nov 2012 20:08:04 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/Windows-Upgrade/6d7d780df3aa4d148272a0fc014bce5d#6d7d780df3aa4d148272a0fc014bce5d DCMonkey 14 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/DCMonkey/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - Windows Upgrade @DCMonkey: It's annoying that you can't do that. However, it seems to me that it's just a matter of IE, the Video app, etc registering themselves as a background audio source. I don't think it's impossible, it just hasn't been done yet.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/Windows-Upgrade/3f7971a5b32947fea8bca0fc016adf65#3f7971a5b32947fea8bca0fc016adf65 Thu, 01 Nov 2012 22:01:10 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/Windows-Upgrade/3f7971a5b32947fea8bca0fc016adf65#3f7971a5b32947fea8bca0fc016adf65 kettch 14 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/kettch/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - Windows Upgrade

, magicalclick wrote

As for apps, some are better, like metro photo with SkyDrive build-in.

I guess "All Hail SkyDrive" but the Photos apps still doesn't see any pictures that are on my fully indexed photos share on my 2008 R2 Server which is included in my Pictures library.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/Windows-Upgrade/448c22380ee04011bd9aa0fc017b3001#448c22380ee04011bd9aa0fc017b3001 Thu, 01 Nov 2012 23:00:34 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/Windows-Upgrade/448c22380ee04011bd9aa0fc017b3001#448c22380ee04011bd9aa0fc017b3001 Craig Matthews 14 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/Craig_Matthews/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - Windows Upgrade

, magicalclick wrote

If you want easy, you are better off with Win8 RT, not Pro. Free from virus worries ...

Say whut?

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/Windows-Upgrade/693994d6245a4fb3afb0a0fd0131b291#693994d6245a4fb3afb0a0fd0131b291 Fri, 02 Nov 2012 18:33:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/Windows-Upgrade/693994d6245a4fb3afb0a0fd0131b291#693994d6245a4fb3afb0a0fd0131b291 evildictaitor 14 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/evildictaitor/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - Windows Upgrade @evildictaitor: From what I can tell, most of the drugs consumed are consumed in California. Any who...

Things to note:

1) When I upgraded a Windows XP computer, not one application was migrated.
2) You can easily use Windows 8 without significant use of the crazy start screen.
3) $40 for Windows 8 Pro is a steal.
4) If you add media center, your computer will suddenly restart.

-Josh

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/Windows-Upgrade/f3be81544000462e84c2a0fd01889d17#f3be81544000462e84c2a0fd01889d17 Fri, 02 Nov 2012 23:49:27 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/Windows-Upgrade/f3be81544000462e84c2a0fd01889d17#f3be81544000462e84c2a0fd01889d17 Joshua Ross 14 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/Jsoh/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - Windows Upgrade @JoshRoss: To be fair, the Media Center installer does warn that your PC will restart and that you should close open applications before starting it.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/Windows-Upgrade/42e884391aeb4558a398a10001434baa#42e884391aeb4558a398a10001434baa Mon, 05 Nov 2012 19:37:04 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/Windows-Upgrade/42e884391aeb4558a398a10001434baa#42e884391aeb4558a398a10001434baa Scott 14 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/spivonious/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - Windows Upgrade Sorry for being away for few months. I have read all your experienced about windows 8pro and it is easier for me to decide. Thank you!

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/Windows-Upgrade/d54d5d3585f84ddfa9aaa13b00364cd8#d54d5d3585f84ddfa9aaa13b00364cd8 Thu, 03 Jan 2013 03:17:42 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/Windows-Upgrade/d54d5d3585f84ddfa9aaa13b00364cd8#d54d5d3585f84ddfa9aaa13b00364cd8 Benjie 14 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/oniexn/Discussions/RSS