There's no way Snowden is getting out of Russia to any of those countries that he applied for asylum, except maybe to China. US and its allies are doing everything to capture him. So, Mr. Snowden, send that asylum application back to Russia as this will probably be your only best option outside of living in an airport or what awaits you in the US. Just leak everything right now or work carefully through someone else. That way you won't break Putin's terms.

The only reason to upgrade to 8 (except if you need to make Metro Apps) is if you don't have Windows 7 and you want to get a similar OS for 30 euros (until Jan 31). The interesting part is, they didn't even verify if I had a legal version of Windows XP when I upgraded. In the email, they didn't even say that I bought the upgrade. They said "here's the Windows 8 Pro product key, enjoy."