any way i can find out if i get free vista upgrade from being at a college/uni?

unwashed potato! · 21 Jul 2007 at 18:19

pretty sure that this happens, students get a free upgrade to one of the vistas if their course requires it?

If this does happen is there any way to find out before joining the college. I ask as i hopefully should be going to college in september, and i want to upgrade to vista, but as college is so close i'd hate to upgrade and then find out i would have got it free.

thanks

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Vai · 21 Jul 2007 at 18:50

I believe this is what you want:
http://www.msdnaa.net/search/schoolsearch.aspx?/

MarcLister · 21 Jul 2007 at 20:49

Hang on! So I can get some software cheap because my Uni is listed?

I could buy XP Pro for 9.68 Euros or £6.51?! :eek:

Are there any limits to this? Ie can I buy software now and still use it when I've left Uni? Sorry for asking these questions but considering I've potentially found a source of cheap and legal MS software I want to find out the facts on this and why on earth no-one at Uni told us about this. And I'm in the Computer Science department. :rolleyes:

bigred · 21 Jul 2007 at 20:52

MarcLister said:
Hang on! So I can get some software cheap because my Uni is listed?

It's better than cheap, it's free! (or at least it is for me at my uni)

I asked for a copy of Vista and was given the Business Edition, along with 25 valid CD keys

You have to uninstall it once you leave uni however.

Burnsy2023 · 21 Jul 2007 at 20:55

MarcLister said:
I could buy XP Pro for 9.68 Euros or £6.51?!

Are there any limits to this? Ie can I buy software now and still use it when I've left Uni?

The price you've quoted is to get media, you can download an ISO free off the MSDN:AA website.

The licence is perpetual, but you cna't use it for commercial purposes.

Burnsy

MarcLister · 21 Jul 2007 at 21:01

burnsy2023 said:
The price you've quoted is to get media, you can download an ISO free off the MSDN:AA website.

The licence is perpetual, but you cna't use it for commercial purposes.

Burnsy

Crikey it gets even better! So how do I get an ISO off the MSDN:AA site then?

So I could get XP Pro and use it forever as long as I don't use it for commercial enterprise? No chance of that.

And is it retail or OEM? Or is this MSDN:AA a completely different kettle of fish.

tom_e · 21 Jul 2007 at 21:07

This should answer some questions http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17697065&highlight=MSDN

Burnsy2023 · 21 Jul 2007 at 21:23

MarcLister said:
Crikey it gets even better! So how do I get an ISO off the MSDN:AA site then?

So I could get XP Pro and use it forever as long as I don't use it for commercial enterprise? No chance of that.

And is it retail or OEM? Or is this MSDN:AA a completely different kettle of fish.

You simply have a download link...what else could it be?

As for the license, it's not OEM nor Retail, it's actually a special Volume License with it's own restrictions, but it's closer tot retail than OEM.

Burnsy

MarcLister · 21 Jul 2007 at 21:30

burnsy2023 said:
You simply have a download link...what else could it be?

As for the license, it's not OEM nor Retail, it's actually a special Volume License with it's own restrictions, but it's closer tot retail than OEM.

Burnsy

And how do I find the download link?

Do I need to contact the MSDN:AA rep at Uni?

Burnsy2023 · 21 Jul 2007 at 21:35

MarcLister said:
And how do I find the download link? Do I need to contact the MSDN:AA rep at Uni?

You need to have an account set up for you (you may have one already) then you click the product and it'll have a download link.

Burnsy

MarcLister · 21 Jul 2007 at 21:39

As far as I know I do not have an MSDN:AA account set up for me. I have emailed the MSDN:AA rep using the email address that was given to me on the page for my Uni.

unwashed potato! · 21 Jul 2007 at 22:40

Vai said:
I believe this is what you want:
http://www.msdnaa.net/search/schoolsearch.aspx?/

i checked on this site and it doesn't list my college. Does that mean the college definatly doesn't have this or is there a chance that it has just not been listed? I hopefully will be studying computing HND so would have thought it would be included as one of the local schools has it for I.T lessons.

The plan is to go to uni after 1 year at cols as im doing a uni type course which some reason if i do well i can skip into second year of uni, if that makes sense. Does that mean i can then upgrade to the business one then once at uni, and get my money back for whatever i spend if i was to buy home now?

Burnsy2023 · 21 Jul 2007 at 22:54

If it's not listed its very unlikely that the institution has a campus agreement with the MSDN:AA addon. Without this you don't have an immediate entitlement to Vista.

Colleges as a whole don't usually have MSDN:AA access, as it's quite expensive.

No, there is no refunds for upgrades.

You'll just have to wait unfortunetly.

Burnsy

MarcLister · 21 Jul 2007 at 23:00

Would I have access to all the software available on MSDN:AA or would my Uni have licenced only certain software packages for us to use?

tom_e · 21 Jul 2007 at 23:17

MarcLister said:
Would I have access to all the software available on MSDN:AA or would my Uni have licenced only certain software packages for us to use?

It depends on what your uni makes avalible on the MSDN:AA site

MarcLister · 21 Jul 2007 at 23:19

blitz2163 said:
It depends on what your uni makes avalible on the MSDN:AA site

OK. Thanks. I eagerly await a reply to my email then.