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Re:Microsoft: We've sold 40 million Windows 8 licenses to date by dangrossman on Tuesday November 27, 2012 @04:46PM (#4839296)
Considering Microsoft is not reading this, and you don't have a Twitter account in your profile, would you mind sharing with HN what your message means? Why did you buy Windows 8 if you didn't want it, and why can't you get rid of it?
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Re:Microsoft: We've sold 40 million Windows 8 licenses to date by wheaties on Tuesday November 27, 2012 @05:17PM (#4839485)
I bought an emergency computer at Best Buy pre-installed with Windows 8. No matter what I've tried I can not get the thing to start not in Windows. I can't even drop down to the legacy BIOS to get Linux to boot.

Oh yeah, I also failed the recapcha several times before I could even get into the computer in the first place. A recapcha when you're first starting... brilliant. Btw, I'm not an MS hater but I am a Windows 8 hater.

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Re:Microsoft: We've sold 40 million Windows 8 licenses to date by Karunamon on Tuesday November 27, 2012 @05:41PM (#4839678)
I had to help a friend out of this predicament a while ago.. what I ended up doing was taking my smartphone into the store (an Office Depot) and searching the models of the computers they had for sale to see what has Windows 7 drivers available. Found one (A Lenovo, couldn't tell you what kind), had to muck around because it would only boot from USB but not cdrom (???), but finally got into the 7 installer and cleared all eight partitions and installed windows 7.

Eight Goddamned partitions. What the hell.

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Re:Microsoft: We've sold 40 million Windows 8 licenses to date by hnriot on Tuesday November 27, 2012 @05:40PM (#4839662)
What you describe is a feature of Windows 8, it's to ensure that a trusted source controls what runs on the hardware. Windows 8 is, as you've discovered, far more security conscious.
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Re:Microsoft: We've sold 40 million Windows 8 licenses to date by rbanffy on Tuesday November 27, 2012 @06:05PM (#4839830)
> it's to ensure that a trusted source controls what runs on the hardware.

Trusted by whom?

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Re:Microsoft: We've sold 40 million Windows 8 licenses to date by ConstantineXVI on Tuesday November 27, 2012 @04:59PM (#4839381)
My best guess would be he's referring to an OEM license that came with a PC he bought.
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