“Upgrade” to Windows 10 is “free”, for now. I am fine with Windows 7., I have it at work and on three machines at home. I am constantly importuned to upgrade to Windows 10, but I don’t wanna. I got a Windows 8 laptop for my wife. She hated it and I hated it. With a lot of effort, literally hours, I could get it to behave like Windows 7, but one misstep brought it back to Windows 8 user interface. It was intrusive and insistent and crappy. I brought it back to Best Buy and the nice young customer service person asked me it there was anything wrong with it. I said, “Yes, it has Windows 8 on it.” I asked if he had anything in the store with Windows 7, and he said no, so I didn’t need to go any further.
I like the new interface. I like Windows 10 and I really like server 2012r2. But I don’t like Microsoft aggressively pushing the upgrade.
You have to buy “refurbished” to get Windows 7. I guess Linux is in my future. While I used to really like Unix, Linux kinda sucks. I’ll keep buying used as long as I can find a Windows 7 box. then all bite the bullet and go to Linux, I will not “rent” software, nor will I store my stuff in a cloud.