[croutonwagon]

Just consider the cheapest version of windows 7 home was like $150 bucks USD in 2008.

They aren’t apple. And Microsoft has randomly shut down hotmail/outlook accounts of mine for using a different IP (ie: proxying through a linode when on public wifi) and then made it so recovery wasn’t possible. It locked me out of an Xbox account

Years later I was able to recover it, but I will not rely on any of their services for anything I deem important. Ever again.