Of course, I get Solaris for free, and I think it's much more stable, so I have a hard time parting with any money when it goes to the "enemy."
But oilBabe said that she had to have Office, and I wanted a new PC, so I bought the Dell Inspiron 530s back in April with a Dual Core 2.5GHz, 3gb RAM, Vista Home, 500gb SATA drive and Office 2007 for just over $500 delivered by the time all the rebates were figured.
Funny thing was that I first thought it was going to be $533 delivered, but since I linked to it via my Discover card, I got 5% cash back bonus from Discover. But get this, I financed with Dell and got 3% cash back from them and paid the balance in full on the first statement, so it was close to $508 when all was said and done.
It's drama free.
I'm not sure I want to go to the hassle of upgrading to Vista, and certainly not for about $100 for one license.