Quote Originally Posted by Steve R Jones View Post
Food for thought: Sign up for MS Connect and try and get on the Win 8 Beta program. Send in one or two bug/issues reports and you'll probably get a free Retail Version sent to you when it gets released.
I did that with Vista & Win7, got free copies of both 32bit & 64bit, eventhough i nearly didn't get let into either, so i had to use a friends USA details to help me through the initial registration screening process.

the good thing about beta testing is that it's piss easy to make the OS to spit out repeatable bug's / BSOD especially when you start throwing faulty hardware into the test environment.