Uhm I paid like $99 for XP. My laptop came with Vista Ultimate at the Vista Home Prem price from Dell (32bit) and then a few months later I got them to send me the 64bit SP1 install disc free of charge... so not much to complain about there either. I will probably pay $100-$150 for Win7 when I finally buy it. I suppose if you're one of those blokes that goes to BB and plops down $300+ for an OS... well what can I say?