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Windows 10 Pro?
It normally costs $199, but MS employee can buy it for $40...
Or a MS 365 Family subscription for $20...
MS gave me - and a few others obviously - a opportunity to purchase up to $250 from their employee store...
There is not much there for a developer to be honest...
What would you buy?
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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At the beginning I was sceptic about those cheap Win10 Pro licenses being sold in retailers, but there were a couple of conversations about it here in the lounge and I think I will buy some of them for my relatives (or even for me if I don't have enough patience with Linux as main OS).
M.D.V. 
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I do not know how cheap do you speak of - but this $40 copy is 10000000% original and legal and everything...
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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There have been several articles in tech magazines and at least 2 conversations about them here in the lounge.
They are re-sellers from non used OEM big packets.
They are theoretically original and legal too (but I think more of "grey zone"). Officially not illegal though
Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: but this $40 copy is 10000000% original and legal and everything...
In that case I would buy it
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Once upon a time, long ago, I bought a system which came with Windows (NT, perhaps?). At a certain point I had to reactivate it (rather than an entire new install) - I have forgotten the exact circumstances other than I wanted to avoid a fresh install if I could. The code I had would not reactivate it (there was a way to get the internal code and it matched).
A lot of time with MickySloth, including their security, and it was determined I had an OEM version registered to a corporate entity. Even though I also had an MSDN subscription - so it was all bought and paid for, anyway, they would not (or could not) give me a key that would work. The MSDN key wouldn't work for this version.
So, after a lot of agida I had to reinstall, anyway, via an MSDN version. I'm still not sure if it was (as sold preinstalled) a truly legal copy. Not illegal, either.
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The licenses are still activated by Microsoft. They do an apparent "owner" check and then pass the smell test. You get the impression they do a pretty good job tracking licenses and motherboards and owners.
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: What would you buy?
Yes. For me and few of my close ones.
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Be warned, if they're from MS, they're typically marked as not for re-sale. Buying them for friends/relatives is kind of a gray area.
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In my organization, we are provided to buy our product for self and relatives. Keeping this in context, if I get an option, will buy it. Of-course, if there are gray areas, will keep distance. 
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Where I live (India), a typical laptop comes for Rs. 40,000 (around USD 500) with Windows 10 Home pre-loaded.
Have never used Win 10 Pro.
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Lack of RDP has always made any Home version of Windows a non-starter for me. I practically live inside RDP.
The inability to join a domain also makes Home's usefulness to me questionable--but that's just the way I work. YMMV, I realize not everybody (even among us developers) sets up a domain at home.
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I vastly prefer Win7 over Win10 but I can't deny that's a really good deal I'd probably take. Beyond that, I'd probably pick up a VS license so I could sell software without the revenue cap tied to the free editions and play around more with some of the Enterprise-only features. That's pretty much it I think 
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MS employee store does not contain anything development related - Windows, Office, Games...
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: MS employee store does not contain anything development related
Is that because MS employees are not allowed to develop anything? 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Haha, no, but you never know! I don't really sell anything at the moment. My stuff in my personal time ends up open source.
I'd really just like to play around with some of the Enterprise features like some of the advanced debugging tools.
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if it's coming Quote: from their employee store...
then it's certainly better than a potentially dodgy OEM one, so YES
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: There is not much there for a developer anyone with a brain to be honest...
Had to fix that. I`m just taking apart my dead PC and I think the replacement will never even know that Mickeysoft exists at all. By now they would have to pay me money to even look at their stuff. If they really want to control my computer, then I let them pay rent.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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I remember AoE... I may pay $10 for the nostalgia... But have to check first that it works on Wine...
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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Wine? Good idea. Will I need it for Skyrim? Ahh, found it already... blah ... why on earth? (answer: because not Mickeysoft) ... blah blah blah ... download ... blah blah blah ... WineSteam ...
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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I'm playing UbiSoft games on Fedora using Wine... so far all I have (4) works good
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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Until your friends and relatives start asking you "WTF are these Libre Office files you keep sending me? The layout is all messed up when I open them with Word".
(been there, done that--but on the recipient side, as the sender was an avid "anti-everything MS")
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: What would you buy?
Back when I had MVP status, I purchased clothes, one or two software titles, a few books, and some office trinkets. Toward the end, I ran out of stuff that I was even the least bit interested in, and just let the credit expire.
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