[quote=@Awson]
I'm painfully uninformed about this kind of stuff, but isn't the newest Windows free to anyone who had the previous version? Even if it was pirated?

In that case, couldn't you shove a pirated copy of windows on there, and then upgrade to the new jam?

And then, you know, delete the spyware.
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[quote=@BrobyDDark]
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Or they could use the media creation tool and burn it to a disk like they're supposed to do, provided they have a computer with Windows 8 or 10 on it they can use to download the media creation tool.
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OR

I could just use the copy of Windows 8.1 that I already own

[i]Which I did mention earlier.[/i]