I've found win 8.1 to be a reasonable compromise,
and will look for a cheap legal install of that for a Lenovo laptop I want to swap out the HD for a solid state drive.
Problem is the laptop is factory installed with Win 8.1 Bing
which is never supplied on a back up CD/DVD;
and it is impossible to download ISOs of that from microsft or Lenovo for a fresh install.

I'm reluctant to try copying the existing system to the new solid state HD,
because I just want a clean new install without all the Lenovo bloatware