Windows 8: Public Release and General Availability on 26 Oct 2012.

Windows 8, the new shiny OS is now available for the general public to download from Microsoft Stores.

Microsoft is offering an upgrade offer if you are currently using Windows 7, for $39.99. For more details please visit http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows/buy?ocid=GA8_O_WOL_DIS_Compare_FPP_Null

UPDATE: As of now, the upgrade links are not working. Trying to do an upgrade will get you to the screen as shown below! Yup, we are waiting…

UPDATE: Everything is up and running fine. Great work MS 🙂

At the same time, Microsoft is offering another upgrade offer if you recently bought your Windows 7 PC and wish to upgrade to Windows 8. The offer price is just $14.99. The is cool if you still want to try the new beast.

For more details visit the Windows upgrade page, https://www.windowsupgradeoffer.com/en-US/

UPDATE: As of now the upgrade assistant is not working. See the error message the upgrade assistant throwing out while connecting to upgrade offer server.

UPDATE: Everything working fine as of now, the upgrade assistant went like a breeze and the upgrade process was very quick, got the Windows 8 Pro key within a minute, yup, you guessed it correct, for $14.99. The upgrade assistant is a mini downloader too, after completing the Windows 8 upgrade offer, the upgrade assistant started downloading the OS! That was very nice, but I dismissed the download because the just bought key worked flawlessly with the MSDN image too, so why download the same thing over and again?

For those who are looking for the MSDN image, there are torrents out there, which will get you an untouched virgin image of Windows 8 Pro, from MSDN. Use the same with the key and enjoy the new OS.

As of now there is no confirmed reports that Microsoft is verifying your purchase of PC, so you can register with some seemingly genuine data on https://www.windowsupgradeoffer.com/en-US/ and grab your copy of Windows 8. So what are you waiting for, grab your copy of genuine Windows 8, without wasting time searching for illegal KMS servers. Be genuine, at least for the product key. 🙂