Poll: DId you pay for your current OS?

[Feldenak]

Originally posted by: crab
Yes...Win XP Pro.

 

[Frosty3799]

WinXP pro starter kit

 

[csyberblue]

yea, I bought windows XP pro for $10 from my university bookstore.

public texas universities get a discount on ms software.

 

[randomlinh]

Originally posted by: littleprince
Yup.

But I'd pay about $300 if Mac decided to sell a port of their OS X for x86 machines.

I wouldn't. You know how many hardware issues you'd probably have? heh.

And no, I didn't pay for my copy of XP. Microsoft gave it to me at a convention, along w/ visual studio

 

[volrath]

Nobody uses Win2k anymore?

I paid for Mac OS 10.0... I was at the release party at Apple.

 

[pancho619]

Yup, my Dell desktop at home came with XP Pro. My Toshiba laptop came with XP home edition.

 

[Feneant2]

Xp came with my laptop, first OS I pay for since Windows 95.

 

[Chunkee]

lame thread

 

[SarcasticDwarf]

heh, everyone who didn't post didn't pay for it

 

[DrPizza]

That's odd.. mention you download movies or mp3's, and there are tons of members who jump down your throat... but those people are conspicuously absent this thread..

Me: I paid: hence my reluctance to upgrade to WinXP... is it really worth the $$ to go from 98 to XP?
(which would mean also getting a new sound card)
My answer to that question: Nope... not to me.
Plus, newer viruses will probably exploit XP more than 98.

 

[Trey22]

Yup, quantity 2 XP Home.

 

I believe that about 20% of you are telling the truth.

 

[dbk]

os x came with laptop.

 

[johnjbruin]

Win XP home with laptop.

Win 2000 and Win XP Pro from school (w00t for free OS'es).

 

[Cobalt]

Had 98 se, was time for an upgrade and friend gave me his Upgrade to XP Pro. So I payed for the liscense for 98 se, but not for the XP Pro files.

 

[Scarpozzi]

I'm at work now...they paid for a site license...

Win2k

 

[JetBlack69]

I bought XP Pro through my school. I bought Win 2000 upgrade for $150. Other OSes either came with the computer or they are Linux.

 

[Muse]

Paid a lot for my Windows 2000 but got Win95 OSR2 free, before it was even for sale. I met a guy online who FTP'd it to me (without the frills) one CAB at a time. Very cool.

 

[chilled]

My laptop came with legit XP Pro. My desktops use a dodgy version, but I *could* get a legit version from MSDNAA but I can't be bothered as it'll be the same thing anyway! Maybe I should just use their CD-Key instead.