/facepalm

It means that if anybody wants to contact me for anything, he / she can do that at my email address and I would be able to immediately see the message, instead of PM-ing me here. This forum always surprises me, yey. :)

Yeah, and the fact that you use @live instead of gmail or yahoo like most everyone else still says something about your position on Microsoft.

So, /facepalm back at ya!

WOW! I honestly want to thank you for fascinating me. :)

Be less of a Microsoft fanboy and stop promoting an OS which most people clearly think sucks pretty badly, and it won't be so obvious! =)

Hahahh, this is getting even better. Please do continue. :)

I just wanna thank you both for these last few posts. Passive aggressive fanboy/anti-fanboy wars are always funny to watch =D

On topic though. Am I understanding correctly that if I wanna "upgrade" Windows XP 32-bit to Windows 8 I'm not eligible for the update discount?

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows/buy?ocid=GA8_O_WOL_Hero_Home_FPP_Null

Actually I'm done. You may now return to your duties of promoting a mediocre operating system, of which you have no vested interest, in an overly excited way =)
"* Offer valid from October 26, 2012 until January 31, 2013 and is limited to five upgrade licenses per customer. To install Windows 8 Pro, customers must be running Windows XP SP3, Windows Vista, or Windows 7. Get the full details on our special offer."

Sounds like you should be able to?

You really should join Neowin and The Verge... third world war happening in every single Apple / Google / Microsoft thread. :D

Anyways, I think you're able to upgrade for the $40 mentioned there. Please do, oh, oh, it would be wonderful! I'll get a piece of the cake! :D

(btw, I read this morning that SLIC modified pirate copies of Win 7 are able to 'upgrade' to a legal Win 8 copy, haven't tested this personally though.)

What about the SLIC legal Win 7? Or you mean SLIC 2.2 (or whatever the Win8 SLIC version is)?

I could also post about... FL Studio, or Expression Encoder, or MKVToolnix or some other random stuff that I use, but those would be irrelevant for a GOGer. Posting about the next member of the family of officially supported OSes by GOG is a bit more relevant, don't you think?

Besides, we all post about stuff we're interested to talk about. :)

Now, I wonder if I call the first two FO games a disaster, and FO:NV the best game of the series, what would happen to me... my account banned, and my left arm eaten by fellow GOGers?
Upgrade to 32bit then? Or is the system capable of handling 64bit?

EDIT: I mean, you can upgrade it further with RAM and newer components?

"Clearly sucks" how? I was very sceptic until I took the time to read a few dozen websites detailing the advantages and disadvantages and I have quickly come to this conclusion:

- Metro is easy to avoid
- Metro isn't even that bad - it's more like another layer of the OS
- desktop still works almost exactly the same way
- the old startmenu was shit anyway (I only used it to search for software and shut down)
- it actually has quite a few advantages and improvements that should matter to people who don't have their panties in a twist

I dislike the removal of Aero since I enjoyed it but other than that (and some small niggling problems which are very easy to fix with a bit of Googling) it seems like a solid OS. I don't like how they removed gadgets though - I used some gadgets quite a lot (on my second screen).

I'm guessing you'd just have to install the same way you did with Windows 7 when you were switching to 64 bit. They could change things with 8 of course, but with 7, both 32 and 64 bit were included on the same CD. So, all you had to do was do a 'clean' install from the upgrade media, and there were a couple of different methods for doing that. You just can't do the upgrade installation from 32bit to 64bit.

A question for the tech-savvy Windows users:

One of our PCs runs on a German Windows XP (SP3) 32 bit.

It would be nice to have an English 64-bit Windows on this machine, without losing the XP install, so I'm looking for a multiboot solution. The 30€ Win8 offer might fit the bill - while we don't like the UI at all, the price advantage might be big enough to live with it.

So, the question is: Can I use the 30€ Win8 offer to turn my German WinXP SP3 32bit system into one that can still boot the old OS, but also an English Win8 64bit?

It seems surprisingly difficult to find an answer to this question, in most discussions people can't even agree on the exact meaning of the term "upgrade".

I haven't noticed that much difference, yes booting is faster and file copy take a little less time before it actually starts to copy/move the files but appart from that not much. (Explorer is still slow down to a crawl when you open a folder with several hundreds/thousands of media files.) But maybe it's more noticeable on lower end computers.

99% of this fat is actually handled by the GPU, removing it won't really have that much impact.