Get Windows 7 for £30
Microsoft has announced a special offer for Windows 7 to entice students in UK universities and colleges to upgrade.
The software giant says the offer is designed to coincide with the start of the new academic year and will enable university students to upgrade to the latest operating system.
The offer is open to any UK student with a valid university or college email address (i.e. an email address ending in .ac.uk) and will expire on 3 January 2010, at which time the costs will revert to their normal prices.
Students "will benefit from many of Windows 7's unique functions and applications which make PCs easier, simpler and more fun to use," said Microsoft in a statement.
The company added that there will also be a special promotional price for Windows 7 Professional as well, but hasn't said how much thus far. We were unable to reach Microsoft for further comment at the time of publication. Details will presumably pop up on the Student pre-order website nearer to the offer's start date.
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Discuss in the forums ReplyIt doesn't matter if they've already taken payment, you can still ring them up and cancel it (the Tesco Direct site is crap and doesn't allow you to cancel orders yourself) since they haven't shipped it yet, or any time before the 7 day period you're entitled to in the DSR.
And lets face it students are some of the worst down-loaders!
home premium is the version i want isnt it? will defo take advantage of this
Home Premium is pretty good, but Pro is slightly better. Have a look at the compare thingy to see which versions can do what.
If it carries on getting any cheaper, MS will soon be paying us to take it off them!
shame it's not £30 for Ultimate, since they are already giving out Pro
You can't please some :p
This MSDNAA thing intrigues me, do you only get access to it if you are enrolled on certain courses?
Good to see MS with all these offers though. People are much much more likely to buy it that pirate it at these prices.
Now if they offered Ultimate to you guys, then I would have to find me some 'friends' in the UK or US so I can get the in built language packs. . .
Well the MS site linked in the article says you must already be running a legitimate copy of XP or Vista (who isn't?), but there won't be any upgrade versions in Europe so I'd think you'll just get the full version.
My mistake, I forgot about that (although they'll still have the 'N' version, which doesn't come with WMP).
That's an awesome price. Wish I had got on that - it is £150 now on Tesco! I have a £60 preorder from Amazon.
yeah your uni dept has to be enrolled to it. most IT/CS courses will have access to it. You get pretty much all MS software/OS packages, bar most of the useful Office apps. You get Visio and a couple others, but not the usual Word/Excel/Outlook stuff.
Is an awesome price though, possibly having a dig at Apple in a sorta 'haha, we can offer cheap too' sort of way?
Sam
Ah, I see. I won't have access to it then as I'm not on an IT/CS course :(
I can't believe it's 150 on Tesco - every little helps my a*se. I managed to get it for 45; it's still 65 on Amazon.
I've also got a *.ac.uk e-mail address, which is nice.
I guess the people who've been told to go on their by more tech-literate friends, but see Pro and think "arghhhhhhhhhhh" and choose the more friendly-sounding HP.
Is that really a problem, though? Surely everyone has a copy of XP or Vista by now, don't they?
If the Pro version really is available for £30 then I'll definitely be buying it. If their next OS turns out to be a bit of a shocker like Vista was and I end up skipping it altogether, I'll probably end up needing the >16GB RAM support.
I don't mind it now, but the next time I want to reinstall it will be a cockache. Although the key might be valid for a non-upgrade-only disc.
Not only did my uni sign me up to MSDN AA but it still seems to work despite the fact that I graduated 4 months ago. :D
http://win741.com/
I'm loving this :)
well i did but not to study boring english!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
computer college was the one for me thanks!
I know bummer
OOPS missed this .
well i love it! its been abused!!!!!!! lol :P