Really sneaky cheap way to get windows 7 ultimate?

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i am gonna buy a new pc soonish so need an OS to install on it. as a student i am eligible to buy a windows 7 ultimate upgrade edition for £30 (!).

however to install that i need a current licence for a previous windows OS, which i dont have. a quick check on ebay confirms i can buy XP for peanuts. i've read up, and when i install windows 7 it'll actually just do a clean install but it just needs there to be an OS on the hard drive already otherwise it wont do it.

so bottom line - i get XP for £15ish and windows 7 ultimate for £30, upgrade.... profit :)

am i missing something or is that awesome?
 
Temi_D said:
From where? :eek:
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it's well hidden on the microsoft site. here's the link so you don't have to trawl through it:

http://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msstore/pd/productID.216644200

you need to give them your uni e-mail address. also you can get office 2010 professional (worth like £400) for £40, and adobe production premium cs5.5 (worth like £2000) for £315 here:

http://www.software4students.co.uk//Microsoft_Office_2010_Professional_Plus-details.aspx

again they need your uni address but it's a pretty easy process. gotta love microsoft :D
 
sorry just noticed i gave you a link to the US site. just go on the 2nd link win7 ultimate is available from there too (that's where i've ordered it from).
 
Yep it really is... theultimatesteal ;)

I've got most of my MS software this way. :)

As long as the XP licence is retail then there isn't really an issue with the way in the first post. Now the question of atually needing to buy XP in the first place... Depends if you want to be 100% legit or 90% legit.
 
SheepBeast said:
it's well hidden on the microsoft site. here's the link so you don't have to trawl through it:
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I does seem rather silly of them to hide it.

I'm sure if more students knew that they could get the software at these prices then they would be far more likely to buy it as opposed to pirating it...
 
Amp34 said:
Yep it really is... theultimatesteal ;)

I've got most of my MS software this way. :)

As long as the XP licence is retail then there isn't really an issue with the way in the first post. Now the question of atually needing to buy XP in the first place... Depends if you want to be 100% legit or 90% legit.
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Seriously - where do you get your 90% and 100% ideas from?
If the OP buys a license for a previous version of the OS then he is 100% legitimate.
If you doesn't, then he is 0% legitimate as the "Upgrade License" dictates that you need a previous OS license to upgrade from.
 
MikeHunt79 said:
I does seem rather silly of them to hide it.

I'm sure if more students knew that they could get the software at these prices then they would be far more likely to buy it as opposed to pirating it...
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You'd think wouldn't you.
But the bottom line (despite what the "I only pirate because things are too expensive" crew say) is that when given an option of £0 or £ANY AMOUNT they will take the free option.
 
No, they would just pirate it as its so easy to do. Even if it is only £30 its £30. If they know they can get it for free and how easy it is they will do that instead
 
robinbredin said:
That's right, all you have to do is buy the upgrade, and follow these instruction's
from this site below,

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/31402-clean-install-upgrade-windows-7-version.html
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I am usure what the point of all that is.

When I did a clean re-install of w7 recently I didn't go through any of that malarky and there does not seem to be any problems.

What is the point of doing those steps?

Although my w7 was sold as an upgrade, it had a registration number. Do upgrade versions of w7 not normally come with a number?
 
stoofa said:
You'd think wouldn't you.
But the bottom line (despite what the "I only pirate because things are too expensive" crew say) is that when given an option of £0 or £ANY AMOUNT they will take the free option.
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Loads of people I knew in my third year of uni bought Office 2007 because they'd seen me using it, liked it and were impressed they could get it cheap when Office is usually considered to be very expensive.
 
Two user licence for office 2010, including publisher and access, for £40 is a compelling argument against openoffice. The RRP of over £400 is mental though.

edit: Takes nearly a minute to find a decent pirate version, but given the number of man hours invested in the program it feels genuinely dishonest to pirate it instead of cough up 3 hours at minimum wage.
 
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