Where to buy W2K?

[Stallion]

I have looked at costco, $285 and Buy.com $260. Where can I find it for a reasonable price or are those reasonable? I have a friend who works at MS that can get me software dirt cheap. We got 98 for $20 back in the day but I need 3 copies of W2K for myself and some friends I'm building PCs for. Can I find it for under $200?

 

[Abzstrak]

U can get the OEM copy at newegg for $141, just requires you to buy some hardware of some sort with it... get that wireless mouse you've been wanting, or add a stick of RAM... might as well since its over $100 cheaper.

Also note, I would buy XP, since the license is ok for use with win2k OR winxp... that way you can "upgrade" to XP in the future for free..... or start running it now. And its $139 at newegg...

 

[steell]

Well, you could order a floppy drive at Newegg and then buy it for $141.00

Do that three times, and sell me a floppy drive

 

[Stallion]

I didn't know newegg sold software. I'll go check it out..... Ok. for $141 I can get 200 pro with service pack 2. So what is the $275 jobbie?

The retail is that much more? Does the $141 oem include any books or start-up help. It's not an upgrade is it.


I just spent over $1,000 at newegg last week on cacses,CPUs,HDD,video cards, ram and junk... I do still need CD/DVD roms and floppys though.

 

[Shelly21]

Wow, that is... expensive! I guess my company's got enough licenses that I don't have to worry about it when I'm building servers. I'm running XPs at home, with the free licenses that MS gave me at one of their conferences.

btw, thanks for signing my log Stallion.

 

[Stallion]

We have a friend (well many I guess) that works at MS and can get all software at cost. We paid $20 for W98 back in the day when it was still well over $100. We just figured that getting 3 copies of it would be better if we just bought it ourselves. They sell a 3 pack at newegg for $416.. might do that deal.

Shelly21, you are quite welcome.