[Too]

Consider yourself lucky you even got windows 8 installed. My lenovo laptop, with a big fat windows 8 sticker on it and win 8 screaming all over the purchase page, came with windows 7 preinstalled. Win 8 came with a bunch of dvds inside the packaging, the laptop does not even have a dvd-player.

[yuhong]

I think this is because a lot of people didn't like Win8.

[toupeira]

If that was the reason they wouldn't try so hard to give the impression that it is indeed running Windows 8.

[mahouse]

They probably manufactured all the computers with the W8 stickers on them and then hastily dumped a W7 disk image on the hard disk of each one of them to stop users from complaining. But yes, the fact that the computer has no DVD drive to upgrade to W8 from the DVDs is a bit wrong.

[bluedino]

We have to pay an extra $50 to have 7 instead of 8 on our Lenovos

[gamblor956]

You can download Windows 8 free online, and enter into the serial on the CDs when it comes time to register.

(Windows 7 was the first Windows OS that was fully installable from a downloaded or USB-stick copy.)

[Too]

The serial is not written on the CD, it's a lenovo recovery CD, not a pure windows CD. Nor have i found it anywhere else.

I guess i could easily get a key from lenovos support but i really don't care much anyway, win 7 works great. I just find the whole experience a great example of how badly pc manufacturers consider the "whole package" experience of their products.

[nly]

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-GB/windows-8/create-reset-re...

[ANTSANTS]

They did you a solid.