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Windows 7 Student Pricing Is The Way To Go, If You’re A Student

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9:46AM October 23, 2009 | Nick Broughall

If you’re a university or TAFE student looking for an OS update, Microsoft is offering you the opportunity to upgrade to Windows 7 Home Premium or Professional for $50. It’s better than paying full price, that’s for sure…

[Microsoft – Thanks Matt!]

Comments

  • matt

    October 23, 2009 at 10:16 AM

    whats involved in getting an upgrade? do you have to give an XP key or something?

  • joe

    October 23, 2009 at 11:09 AM

    Epic!

    Thanks for the heads up!

  • josh

    October 23, 2009 at 11:12 AM

    can you be a HSC student? (ie, year 12?)

  • Adrian Evans

    October 23, 2009 at 12:17 PM

    Thanks so much for this!
    As soon as I saw it I logged in with my uni email and bought it.
    I wasn’t going to upgrade because of how expensive it is, but for $50 how could I go wrong.

  • Laurence

    October 23, 2009 at 12:26 PM

    It is also wise to note that if your uni / tafe has a MSDN group. You can get copies of MS software for Free like Xp, Vista, Win7, Office and Servier 2008.

    However you need to check with your uni if your course / school / program is a MSDN member.

    http://msdn70.e-academy.com/elms/Storefront/Storefront.aspx?campus=au_37780&np1=112

    The $50 deal for Win7 is pretty good – however it might pay to check if you are eligible to get a copy for free first.

  • David Anderton

    October 23, 2009 at 7:53 PM

    SWEEEEEEEEEEEET

  • Stash

    October 23, 2009 at 9:14 PM

    Just bought it, I would suggest every one getting it also pay the extra $14 for a bootable disk, as i read you only have 30 days from purchase to download, so may be an issue if you need to reinstall at a later date.

  • Huy

    October 23, 2009 at 9:28 PM

    MSDNAA does not include Office.

  • Adrian Evans

    October 23, 2009 at 10:53 PM

    Just a bit of advice for anyone going to purchase this. Don’t! At least yet. The download file is corrupt. There has been an issue where the upgrade software you download is read-only and customer support has yet to rectify the issue.
    At this stage I’d like to be using my copy of Windows 7 that I payed for, but alas cannot.

    • Lucas Moffitt

      November 4, 2009 at 12:06 PM

      Mine worked fine, has been and from what i can see is still working fine :)

      Perhaps try downloading again?

  • Christian Ancora

    October 23, 2009 at 10:57 PM

    choosing the win7 pro deal shows up as “Windows 7 Professional Upgrade”.

    what does that “upgrade” mean?

    do I have to have a previous version?
    do i have to purchase that on top of the home premium version?
    is it just really poorly thought out wording?

    there is no answer in the faq.

    • Lucas Moffitt

      November 4, 2009 at 12:07 PM

      The Wording isn’t so fantastic

      You need to have a Legitimate copy of either Vista or Xp installed on your current machine.

      That’s it :)

      However it has to pass the genuine software test. If not then the upgrade will not work.

  • Jubbin Grewal

    October 24, 2009 at 2:55 AM

    Well why not, and upgrade always helps, although I think a wait till I get my new laptop sitting overseas with Vista will help more so than my current clunky XP laptop!

  • David Anderton

    October 25, 2009 at 1:44 AM

    Microsoft has farked up bigtime, if you buy the 64bit version and try and run off your 32 bit os, it will fail!!!! No support yet, but yeh very very angry!

  • Joshua Beem

    November 12, 2009 at 7:05 PM

    Just wondering if this deal is valid for only one license, or can I purchase as many license as I want?

  • hankjay

    January 12, 2011 at 3:57 PM

    How about those high school students that do not have a school provided computer. How do they get software with student pricing?

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