I am writing here to describe my frustration with Microsoft and the in ability to understand and cater to there consumers like me.
If I was the Product owner of Windows 8 I would be deeply ashamed with the upgrade path for existing users.

Here is the history before we start with the upgrade:
The machine has been upgraded from Windows XP 32bit to Windows 7 32bit (with 64bit on DVD family license).
The upgrade could have been done to 64bit without a clean install and I needed to have my apps then so I upgraded and excepted the lack of 64bit.

My curiosity for Windows 8 has been risen because of all the Surface thing etc, so i decided to do a clean install with hopefully a 64bit install of Windows 8.

When I started with the upgrade assistend it checked my system and found out that it could upgrade etc.
I decided it couldn’t because I want 64bit. I therefore downloaded it to an ISO and burned a DVD booted and installed the Windows 8.
It all went fine, until I found out that it had installed 32bit version of the OS.
You can imagine I was very unhappy with this. I had spend money and did not get what I wanted and payed for.

The next morning (after a cool down) I decided to call Microsoft Netherlands for advice and a download location of a 64bit ISO file for installation.
The guy picking up the phone was Mark Boots, he started to ask me about my PC and I explained the situation.
His answer was that I should buy a full version Windows 8 license for around € 150,-.
I was outraged and told him about upgrade paths on OSX and the costs involved.
I also told him that I would involve the “Consumentenbond” in this customer decide, he made me clear that he wanted to have his name included so again, Mark Boots.
https://twitter.com/markboots/status/243429663135911938
And may I suggest you train a little more because I have found a legal solution.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj203353.aspx

Solutions:

1. Buy the upgrade and order the DVD’s to your home with an extra charge of € 14,-
2. Go and find and Windows XP or Windows 7 64Bits machine with your language version installed.
   http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-8/upgrade-product-key-only
   Use the upgrade assistend and your own license to download the the ISO file (be careful not to upgrade that machine).
3. Go to a Arrrbeach.se (Pirate something) site and download an unaltered retail version of the 64bit version of the install DVD for Windows 8.
4. Download a trail version and install that and insert the license later. (untested, just theory)

All the above solutions will result in an ISO file download which you can burn to a DVD and boot from to make a clean-install on your target PC.

To Microsoft:

1. Why isn’t there an ISO download place with all versions?
2. Why don’t I get 64bit ISO and 32bit ISO downloads?
3. Why is the Language thing still so hard for you and not for OSX/Linux?
4. Why are your trained “Professionals” so bad and not service oriented?
5. Where can I send the bill for this consulting job?
6. Why have you let me down as a long lasting customer for a very long time? I even do VBScript and own Windows Servers.

Sources:
http://www.ghacks.net/2012/10/27/windows-8-upgrade-from-32-bit-to-64-bit-system/

If I where you I would get mine with the vanity-URL of your liking.

Learnings:
More after shots needed.
More different angles.
More movement like the pedels and chain.
But this was very difficult to do with only me, I needed extra hands.
Audio (Zoom H1) needs a wind-screen.

Editing:
I did some grading and color correction.
There also needs to be some music or other stuff in there, don’t know what yet.

Just use these custom fonts and CSS shading and gradients and it looks great instantly. The work on all platforms and are sharp on retina displays because of vector rendering. Don’t mess with bitmap icons any more use a font.

Web Symbols – Free Dingbat Font For Web Apps
Font Awesome

Lets see what happens at NAB 2012 next month.

The Sony NEX FS700 – 4K for $8k | EOSHD.com.

[Update]
Official Sony NEX-FS700E product page with specs and prices.

CSS3 Gradient Generator.

I will try to show you what I think based on prices below.
5 x 8 x € 85 programming app (1 OS)
5 x 8 x € 85 programming backend
5 x 8 x € 85 design
5 x 4 x € 65 project management
€ 1.000 monthly hosting
€ 600 setup hosting

total € 13.100 excluding V.A.T.
This is not realistic, creating an application in 5 days programming is NOT possible.

My conclusion is that Mirabeu is right.
Please let me know what you think, and what your function is, developer or client.

It has been a while and the development has been though, but I have succeeded and there is a rough version live which needs updating.

I will iterate to make it beter constantly with features like mail alerting user portfolio for your favorite stocks. Facebook connections to give your close friends the tips to help them out.

The code writing has been awesome, and I am going to make it one of the best sites in the market.
The design and UX needs a lott of work I know. Also more stock markets should be entered.

The site could use an angel investor, so if your interested, please contact me.

I am very happy to inform you that it is available in the app store
http://itunes.apple.com/app/het-nieuwe-ambacht-iris-van/id445288812

Please download the application and use it in the Centraal Museum in Utrecht.
http://www.centraalmuseum.nl/page.ocl?pageid=67&expo_id=244
Please feel free to leave me some feedback.

Svipr

My first thoughts about Google+ are that it looks sleak and that the circles feature is a very good user expierence.
The circle expierence is also possible on Facebook with Circle Hack.
The biggest USP of G+ is the following priciple.
On Facebook you need to confirm your friendship to have anykind of communication/interaction.
On Google+ you can “follow” someone simmiler to Twitter. This means that the user is played the same way to become an influencial person with 5 friends and 500 followers.
On Facebook this can only be done with having 500 “friends”.

I think Facebook will be implementing something like the follower feature in the short future.
Facebook also has a very large addoption in the developer user base and features on other websites.
Google has the advantage on having a very large number (500.000) Android activations a day.
This means that it could be possible for them to have 100.000.000 users within a year via the Android phones only. This is a very large number and could be achieved within a year.

I can’t wait to see where we are in a year on this epic battle.