Windows 7 student discount

[red1776]

Where are all my fellow college students going to get the deep discounted windows 7? I thought I had seen 29.99 or the like for students at some point (I'm sure it came to a screeching halt the day I registered) but I thought I would ask.

 

[SNGX1275]

I got mine from here: http://www.microsoft.com/student/en/us/windows/buynow/default.aspx

I'm sure your school also has a discounted version, either through the bookstore or your IT dept.

 

[brothacheese]

Yeah I know at CMU you can get it for $29.99 through the bookstore

 

[esbo]

Get me a copy

 

[red1776]

Thanks for the advice, I had found it on digital river but was unsure if it was a good source after reading a scathing review by one unhappy customer. I gave them my school email and it came up eligible so I'm good. Thanks

 

[SNGX1275]

Initially when it came out the download was something other than an .iso. So you had to jump through some hoops to get it to something you could burn to a disk, I can see how for most people they would have gotten confused and irritated because it wasn't intuitive, I had to go online and read somewhere on how to do it. I thought that they had fixed that, and you get an .iso file now.

I know that the 64bit (well any) is supposed to be an upgrade, but I had 32bit Vista and just clean installed it from what I downloaded. Hopefully you can still do that. I had initially planned on doing what I did with the Vista upgrade and clean installing it initially, then 'upgrading' my clean install.

 

[Technochicken]

You may be able to get the server version (server 2008 R2) for free from HERE. I just asked our tech person to apply for my high school, but there is a decent chance your school will already be on there.

 

[Leeky]

Well aren't you all lucky! lol.

I'm ever so slightly envious of US customers being able to purchase software for $29.99, when we have to pay $46-47 for exactly the same offer!

 

[SNGX1275]

You may be able to get the server version (server 2008 R2) for free from HERE. I just asked our tech person to apply for my high school, but there is a decent chance your school will already be on there.

Sweet, thanks for the link. Getting it now.

 

[red1776]

okay hold on here. I am not a software guy. Windows 2008 R2 is 7? are there any usability differences?

 

[Technochicken]

I have not installed R2 yet, but I have server 2008, which is like vista, installed on a different computer, and there are not really too many differences. Mainly by default there are a lot of options that are not enabled, like the better looking GUI and superfetch, but other than that I have not had any issues with it. And all these options can be manually enabled. I'll install R2 on my main computer next time I do a hardware upgrade.