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I did not pay anything, but how much do ppl usually pay for an OS, or were paying for an OS before all that Win10 jazz?

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I payed £39.99 for windows 7 64bit pro about 4 years ago now and I bought windows 8.1 64bit pro for like £89.99 which I clean installed once I got my SSD, then upgraded to windows 10 about a week ago!

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I paid $100 for W7 Home Premium, then someone gave away a key on here for W7 Ultimate, and then upgraded to W10 for free. My one laptop though I put Ultimate on it which cost me $200.

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$100 for W7 Home

was worth it

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20€ for Windows 8.1 (G2A)

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I did not pay anything, but how much do ppl usually pay for an OS, or were paying for an OS before all that Win10 jazz?

 

$20 USD.

 

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Get Windows 7/8 on G2A for around £30

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I did not pay anything, but how much do ppl usually pay for an OS, or were paying for an OS before all that Win10 jazz?

Full price for 10 Hoem.

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Go Linux! its free and easy to use! 

 

 

hmm that sounded a bit scripted :P erm...

 

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I payed £100/$160 because I'm an idiot who wasted money buying it from Microsoft store(I was using USB) and not just buy a cheap retail dvd and just use the product key(excluding reddit,ebay,G2A etc,)

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Go Linux! its free and easy to use! 

 

 

hmm that sounded a bit scripted :P erm...

 

TekSyndicate:

Yes Linux is great the Nsa and Google cant spy on me, plus now linus cant use his damn rootkits on me to steal my electricity and use my 980ti to bitcoin mine insted of play Skyrim at 1440p

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wow I need to get some friends, I'm going to go watch rugby now. Don't judge my strange mind please

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Ive never paid for an OS before

exactly, if you are worried about 90$, you better buy used pc with w7 and upgrade

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0.00 Euro :)

Got a copy of Windows from dreamspark. About the only nice thing I got from college.

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Never paid for a windows code (except of course including in a laptop price etc.)

Ive got quite a bunch of win 10 codes now, so I dont expect to pay for windows anyday soon.

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I paid $90 for windows 7

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My university provides me with the Windows (and other software too) keys I need. So I didn't pay a dime.

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exactly, if you are worried about 90$, you better buy used pc with w7 and upgrade

Well now that windows is free to upgrade, you can just boot a windows 8.1 and upgrade. I know i shouldnt encourage booting but its life, its gonna happen

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I got free Windows XP and  Windows 7 from my uncle as gift.

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Gray market BS. Most of these are dreamspark keys that can be deactivated at any time and are technically illegitimate if you're not a student. Might as well pirate at that point. 

well it is pirating (copyright infringment), its just that you are enough stupid to pay for it.

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110€ for Vista HP 64bit ENG. 90€ for Win7 HP 64bit FI SP1.

E: Both OEM btw.

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