A seller can legally provide an OEM version if you buy it along with computer hardware -- so you might want to avoid buying the hardware and then getting Windows as an afterthought, or spreading your hardware purchases and software across several vendors.

Of course, you could run Ubuntu or Puppy or something that wasn't produced in Redmond.

On 8/10/2013 10:19 AM, Nicklas Johnson wrote:
Of course the big downside to building your own PC is that you have to buy
a copy of Windows if you want to use it, though OEM versions are available
online for a bit less than what the consumer versions cost if you don't or
won't require Microsoft support.

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