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The upgrade to Win8 pro is 39 USD.

At least for just right now. This is a promotional period that, currently, is to expire at the end of Jan.

Quite likely most of the new PCs sold after Jan will have Windows 8 on them by default.

And may well be "downgradeable" to Win7 for a fee, like Vista computers had the XP option to buy out of that mess.