> "...I would happily pay 5X..." Then sign up for the base level of a MSDN subscription. Get access to any flavor of Windows you want plus their development t

> "...I would happily pay 5X..." Then sign up for the base level of a MSDN subscription. Get access to any flavor of Windows you want plus their development tools too: https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/pricing-details/ https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/pricing-details/ Unless they've changed something, the OS license keys don't expire even if you let the subscription lapse. Yeah, it's for development use only but, as a home user, they're not going to audit you unless you do something really egregious.