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CLP
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So I'm helping someone who is not tech savvy buy a laptop, yesterday she told me she was advised by a salesperson that Win10 costs $100 extra and then $100 per year to re-subscribe???

Is this true or is she being BS'ed for extra sale?. The product description says "PRE INSTALLED".

NOW, she might be mistaken and he was talking about Office, to which I know there are free alternatives out there.

Just want to make sure she isn't being taken advantage of and getting up-sold for no reason.

The last time I got a laptop with 8.1 installed it just worked out of the box, but I know the roll-out of Win10 is a different beast.

TIA.

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windows 10 is like 130$ retail and it does not have a yearly fee

and any laptop that is sold in a store except the apples has windows preinstalled, so no extra 100$ fee

this. She may be confused with Microsoft, or virus software. 

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this. She may be confused with Microsoft, or virus software. 

or scammed into extra costs by a greasy salesman.

 

my grandparents got scammed out of $60 to downgrade from vista to xp...

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Either scamming or confused themselves with Office 365 as it's around $99 CAD a year.

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On ‎2‎/‎8‎/‎2016 at 9:35 PM, BlueChinchillaEatingDorito said:

Either scamming or confused themselves with Office 365 as it's around $99 CAD a year.

It's the Office.. They got my brother last week with that.

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More than likely they meant Office 365, I hear people confuse Windows with Office far too often in consumer retail spaces. 

 

Edit: whoops, didn't mean to necro the thread. My bad.

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Go to office.com and sign up monthly for it and you get some OneDrive storage as well.

"Simple Yet Complex" 

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