Until Windows 10 IIRC, Windows 8 was also a paid upgrade. Windows 8.1 acted like...

		smileybarry on Oct 21, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Android Apps on Windows 11 Until Windows 10 IIRC, Windows 8 was also a paid upgrade. Windows 8.1 acted like a service pack so it wasn't until 10 that upgrades became free, in a way. (Unless you're an enterprise customer, in which case 10 wasn't free either)