Windows 7 Student Pricing Is The Way To Go, If You’re A Student
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…
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whats involved in getting an upgrade? do you have to give an XP key or something?
Epic!
Thanks for the heads up!
can you be a HSC student? (ie, year 12?)
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.
Hey Adrian, glad I could help.
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.
For those who are interested in Office 07 as well as Windows 7 don’t forget to checkout:
http://www.itsnotcheating.com.au
It’s the complete office suite for $50, it’s the same deal as windows 7. So for a total of $100 you can setup your computer legitimately :P
Oh btw. Office 07 can be installed on up to 3 machines at once.
Hit up http://www.lucasmoffit.com for more Win7 Pricing Info, and http://www.dreamspark.com for a whole heap of MS Freebies like Visual Studio.
My Bad
Office 07 is $75 AUD but it’s still cheap compared to the several hundred you’d pay in the shops.
and my Site is http://www.lucasmoffitt.com :D
Cheers,
Lucas
SWEEEEEEEEEEEET
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.
MSDNAA does not include Office.
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.
Mine worked fine, has been and from what i can see is still working fine :)
Perhaps try downloading again?
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.
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.
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!
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!
Just wondering if this deal is valid for only one license, or can I purchase as many license as I want?