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Bill Gates Spends Entire First Day Trying to Install Win8.1

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Post by barnabas1969 » Fri Jul 25, 2014 4:17 pm


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Post by STC » Fri Jul 25, 2014 4:36 pm

Nice find :)
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Post by barnabas1969 » Fri Jul 25, 2014 5:09 pm

Yeah, it's pretty funny. Especially since I had a similar experience when I was trying to install Windows 8. It would finish the first part of the install, reboot, and get an error. I tried it several times. No cigar.

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Post by crawfish » Fri Jul 25, 2014 5:21 pm

I'd love to force Bill to sit down with a Windows 8 product key and try to download a Windows 8.1 ISO so he can do a clean, proper install for something that is a FREE UPGRADE anyway, that otherwise downloads 3 GB of data EVERY TIME you do it through the store for EVERY MACHINE you do it on. The process for acquiring this ISO is the stupidest thing I've ever seen.

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Post by barnabas1969 » Fri Jul 25, 2014 5:34 pm

crawfish wrote:I'd love to force Bill to sit down with a Windows 8 product key and try to download a Windows 8.1 ISO so he can do a clean, proper install for something that is a FREE UPGRADE anyway, that otherwise downloads 3 GB of data EVERY TIME you do it through the store for EVERY MACHINE you do it on. The process for acquiring this ISO is the stupidest thing I've ever seen.
Does the process below not work?
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/wind ... resh-media

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Post by STC » Fri Jul 25, 2014 5:47 pm

I could just imagine Mr. Nadella running in with a copy of Xubunto USB.
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Post by crawfish » Fri Jul 25, 2014 6:20 pm

barnabas1969 wrote:
crawfish wrote:I'd love to force Bill to sit down with a Windows 8 product key and try to download a Windows 8.1 ISO so he can do a clean, proper install for something that is a FREE UPGRADE anyway, that otherwise downloads 3 GB of data EVERY TIME you do it through the store for EVERY MACHINE you do it on. The process for acquiring this ISO is the stupidest thing I've ever seen.
Does the process below not work?
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/wind ... resh-media
If it did, I would need to do my best Emily Litella, wouldn't I? From the page you linked:
If you don't have a Windows 8.1 product key, you can't create installation media. You can't use a Windows 8 product key for this.
Here's what I'm talking about, and the hoops described in the articles must be jumped through in order:

http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials/18 ... reate.html
http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials/22 ... s-8-a.html

To understand, follow what Bill Gates would have to do for the scenario I would like to impose on him in a locked room where I would slowly increase the thermostat and watch through a one-way mirror.

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Post by barnabas1969 » Fri Jul 25, 2014 6:34 pm

Yeah, that's kinda goofy. You'd think they'd just publish the ISO on their site like they used to do for service packs. In the past, I would download the service pack and slip stream it into my installation media so that I could install the latest service pack directly from the DVD on a new machine.

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Post by Ed  » Fri Jul 25, 2014 6:37 pm

On my main rig, I have a Windows 8.0 key and did a fresh install with Windows 8.1 media. All you need to do is use a Windows 8.1 dummy key for the installation; then, use your legit Windows 8.0 key for activation. It's hardly the most difficult thing in the world, by far.

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Post by crawfish » Fri Jul 25, 2014 6:53 pm

barnabas1969 wrote:Yeah, that's kinda goofy. You'd think they'd just publish the ISO on their site like they used to do for service packs. In the past, I would download the service pack and slip stream it into my installation media so that I could install the latest service pack directly from the DVD on a new machine.
I had free MSDN for over 10 years and got all the ISOs that way, so having to research this nonsense, enter one key to download, another generic key to install, and activate by entering my real key was rather maddening. Having to enter yet another key to download WMC was the cherry on top. Note those last three steps have to be done every time I want to install Windows 8.1. Oh, and the 8.1 ISOs created by this process are "personalized" in unspecified ways. That is, they all hash differently, which is a step backwards from a security standpoint. This is all just hugely unprofessional.

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Post by IownFIVEechos » Mon Jul 28, 2014 1:17 pm

Look closer, the author is a comedian writer. I was questioning the logic to the article. Ask yourselves when was the last time upper management installed their own software? Does not happen. I have installed Windows 8.1 more than 30 times and have never had this issue mentioned.

In fact I have put it on Core Duo's and when you do it from the 8.1 update 1 install it takes less than a half hour which is unreal to me.

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Post by STC » Mon Jul 28, 2014 3:00 pm

Yeah good catch. Although it would be something Bill would do I'm sure if it would be possible. Most if not all infrastructure OS installs would be clone builds ready to go.

Maybe he wanted to do a clean regular user OS install then join to AD lol...
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Post by crawfish » Mon Jul 28, 2014 7:49 pm

I'd also like to send him my laptop, on which Windows 8 installed without a hitch, without even a yellow exclamation in Device Manager. Then he could try to install the 8.1 update from the store, watch it download all 3 GB, and then fail with a message saying he needs to update the system BIOS, which of course is not available for the old girl and never will be. Then he could go through the previously described rigmarole of obtaining an 8.1 ISO when all he has is a Windows 8 key, and if he managed not to shoot the computer or worse as I steadily increased the temperature in the locked, windowless room I set up for him, he would find that it installs without a hitch, without even a yellow exclamation in Device Manager.

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Post by barnabas1969 » Tue Jul 29, 2014 3:32 pm

I knew it was satire when I posted it. Was that not obvious?

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Post by werds » Tue Jul 29, 2014 4:28 pm

barnabas1969 wrote:I knew it was satire when I posted it. Was that not obvious?
Who reads the URL these days? "Ain't nobody got time for that!"

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Post by STC » Tue Jul 29, 2014 5:44 pm

barnabas1969 wrote:I knew it was satire when I posted it. Was that not obvious?
Not at first nope. I am extremely angry right now can you not see that? ;)

The lounge may have been more appropriate. That or wait until April 1st to post it in a regular section.
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Post by IownFIVEechos » Tue Jul 29, 2014 5:53 pm

The link I posted will explain that satire is only satire if the actual context is funny. It was not that funny to begin with. With the post being in the news section it tends to make people think its real news. Add the fact that you masked the Url with a description, and then add the fact that the person who posted it is one of the more vocal and straight shooters on here (I read your tag line), and it makes for one confusing subject. :crazy:

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Post by Ed  » Tue Jul 29, 2014 6:02 pm

barnabas1969 wrote:I knew it was satire when I posted it. Was that not obvious?
I don't know how it could have been more so. The fact some people thought it was serious explains so much that happens here, lol.
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Post by RyC » Tue Jul 29, 2014 6:03 pm

Yeah probably would have been better in the Lounge. I didn't even know non-mods could post in this section :shock:

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