Windows 8 "we couldn't process your order"

Grimspoon

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I have been trying to pay for my win 8 upgrade since this afternoon but every time I try to process the order I get " we couldn't process your order"

I have tried 3 different credit cards and no luck. Anyone have a clue what could be the story?
 
Arthur said:
Are you using the SA site? My brother had the same problem, quickly resolved by using the local site, not the US one.
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Yeah I used the ZA site initially, after which I downloaded the upgrade assistant which is what I am using to try buy it.
 
Grimspoon said:
lol $4.99 man! :D


You using win 8? Comments? I dunno, now I am in 2 minds. Maybe I should just go to the pub and buy a few beers. :rolleyes: :p
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Used it for two days in a vm to test our software. I don't like it and will be skipping it. I also don't like being treated like a pawn in Microsofts mobile strategy.
 
rwenzori said:
Crap software is crap software. MS need to be taught a lesson - listen to your customers and stop trying to f them up the arse.
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I think they expect to release an alpha/dud version every second release. It does not reduce sales since it is shipped with new pc's. It's how they get to change strategy.
 
rwenzori said:
Crap software is crap software. MS need to be taught a lesson - listen to your customers and stop trying to f them up the arse.
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It's not bad for touch devices, but an utter pig for a desktop device where you actually need to get serious work done.
 
Mike Hoxbig said:
It's not bad for touch devices, but an utter pig for a desktop device where you actually need to get serious work done.
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Yes. Other nasties:

- you have to pay ( or will have to ) to play DVDs via MS's media player
- the long term intention is to scrap win32, replacing it with winRT, which forces you into:
- full-screen applications with minimal ability to view more than one at once, even on monster screens, and which
- can be dumped anytime if the OS needs resources, and which are launched via:
- hideous tiles
- if you buy licensed, branded machines your windows key is hard coded into the BIOS which might mean, with secure boot that
- you are going to sukkel to load Linux on there if you wish to, and that
- if lightning zaps your motherboard you will have to buy a new Win key
- you are "encouraged" ( koff koff ), if not forced, to get your wot-woz-once-named-Metro software through the MS store, even though store devs are a bit furkled because:
- it seems piss-easy to hack the security
- and all they had to do was give you an option on install to not use wot-woz-once-named-Metro, but they want to force you into the *new, improved, reimagined* world of MS, larkit or lumpit
- inter alia

The problem is, at root, that Steve Ballbag is no visionary, no Steve Jobs, not even a Bill Gates.
 
Ok I think I have heard enough. Going to install Ubuntu to get that new OS buzz I am after.
 
Grimspoon said:
I figured I would get a comment like this. What is so bad about it? I mean for R125?
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haha, well I was actually making a joke about the fight that has been going on between those who like it and those who hate it.
I don't care if you use it or not, and I'm not trying to convince anyone not to use it, I'm fairly confident it will just fail all on it's own! :D
Personally, I didn't care for it... It felt like I was having an argument with a schizophrenic person who kept stealing all my stuff and hiding it in obscure places and wouldn't let me get any work done! :p
I wouldn't install it if they were giving it away free, but that's more because Windows 7 is currently doing the job for me just fine.
 
Don't believe everything you read. I honestly can't believe these rumours are still floating around.

I can see some people not liking the look and feel of it, and that's fine, but these points are all BS.

Also, you feel ripped off by MS but then bring Steve Jobs into it?! :wtf:

- you have to pay ( or will have to ) to play DVDs via MS's media player
* You may have to pay in future to use Windows Media CENTER, not media player which is still free. Also you can get a WMC licence key for free for the time being.

- the long term intention is to scrap win32, replacing it with winRT, which forces you into:
- full-screen applications with minimal ability to view more than one at once, even on monster screens, and which
* The WinRT platform in its current form is not a replacement for Win32 and never will be.

- can be dumped anytime if the OS needs resources, and which are launched via:
* Only after being suspended (not the currently active application). Developers can cater for this happening quite easily.

- hideous tiles
- if you buy licensed, branded machines your windows key is hard coded into the BIOS which might mean, with secure boot that
* These rumours have been around since Windows XP, will never happen. They'll be knee-deep in anti-trust cases before it ever reaches the consumer.

- you are going to sukkel to load Linux on there if you wish to, and that
* Windows 8 Pro comes with Hyper-V and supports booting from VHD meaning even if you can't dual boot (which you can) you can still run whichever OS you want.

- if lightning zaps your motherboard you will have to buy a new Win key
* See above

- you are "encouraged" ( koff koff ), if not forced, to get your wot-woz-once-named-Metro software through the MS store, even though store devs are a bit furkled because:
- it seems piss-easy to hack the security
- and all they had to do was give you an option on install to not use wot-woz-once-named-Metro, but they want to force you into the *new, improved, reimagined* world of MS, larkit or lumpit
* Won't happen for Win32 apps. You can also side-load RT apps on Win8 and WP8, so no one is "forcing" you to use the store. Also there have been no major security breaches on the store.

- inter alia
 
Frikkenator said:
Don't believe everything you read. I honestly can't believe these rumours are still floating around.
I can see some people not liking the look and feel of it, and that's fine, but these points are all BS.

- hideous tiles
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I honestly don't really care about all the other crap, and I hear the underlying OS has some nice new features too.
But those hideous tiles are the major turn off for me.
My kids have Fisher Price toys which are better looking than that juvenile crap that MS is trying to pass off as a major technological advancement.
Major defective bowel movement seems more appropriate.

I can find a new start button if I want one.
I can install VLC if I wanna watch videos.
I don't give a crap about the licenses... I'll probably buy it and then crack it anyway.

But forcing me to use that Metro crap (which may or may not be nice on a tablet... I dunno) on my desktop just does not gel with me.
I don't have a touch screen and it will probably be a couple more years before I get one.
But even if I had a touch screen on my desktop... Windows 8 is not the OS I would run on it.

You can call that my personal preference if you want, that's all it is.
 
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