Now that all support for Windows xp has finished, Windows 7 is the best version around, for desktop use. Don't be fooled into thinking the newer editions are better, they're not -- Windows 8 is a navigational nightmare and Windows 10 is an unhappy compromise. At least with 7 you can find and access your own files and generated content; later editions do daft things like deny you permission to go into your own folders, and restrict use to whoever owns the email account to which the installation is linked. Here you still have icons, hurrah, none of those silly "charms", programs and executables are still programs and executables and not apps. Comfortable to view and easy use.
The free upgrade to windows 10 applies if you poke around among the settings, but in my view isn't worth it. You'll be losing much and gaining little.
This is the cheapest "legal" version you'll find available, don't be fooled by "refurbs" and "download only" versions offered for half the cost, as in 50% of the cases there you'll find that online activation is impossible, and even the phone activation can be shaky; this implies the serial has already been used and registered, and the unsuspecting buyer is having to make use of microsoft's back-up activation process. Hence the 50% statistic. The serial you get with this version is good for one online activation, and in the event of disaster needing reinstallation, one further telephone activation (and further activations if you want to argue with a microsoft employee on the other end of the phone).
I use the word "legal" in inverted commas because there is actually no written law against selling the same serial number twice over, it's a loophole and there's no way to seal it. The world would be a simpler place if microsoft issed every user with a unique "paid up card carrying user" code, good for any version on any pc, but then they wouldn't be able to sell us upgrades...
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