Students = Cheap windows 7

Eliot · 3 Oct 2009 at 00:40

you have to contact your uni to see if youre eligible.

Sudden · 3 Oct 2009 at 04:01

Fire Wizard said:
Yep, if you are replacing your motherboard under warranty purposes, then transferring your license is absolutely fine.

What if you're replacing a faulty board with something completely new?

I ask because my nforce 4 chipset mobo recently stopped working so I replaced it with a new 780i. It just came back from the shop yesterday. Put in my old copy of windows xp (OEM) and did a fresh install. No issues anywhere. Validated it perfectly fine.

JonJ678 · 3 Oct 2009 at 04:36

Damn. I can't get a copy from msdnaa because 'engineering' doesn't qualify as computing related. Despite the time spent on cad and c. I may be buying one of these after all.

RobH · 3 Oct 2009 at 11:46

Mammalian said:
how would you find your vista key? my brother has decided to try win7 as it's only £30 but he doesn't know where his key would be for vista.

http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/product_cd_key_viewer.html

madindehead · 3 Oct 2009 at 12:54

JonJ678 said:
Damn. I can't get a copy from msdnaa because 'engineering' doesn't qualify as computing related. Despite the time spent on cad and c. I may be buying one of these after all.

You're kidding right?

Hope my Uni let's me download it. I do electronic engineering. That should count as being computer related!

OpenToSuggestions · 3 Oct 2009 at 13:29

madindehead said:
You're kidding right?

Hope my Uni let's me download it. I do electronic engineering. That should count as being computer related!

Loughborough Uni don't give any engineering courses free Windows.

Computer Sciences do though.

Cavallino · 7 Oct 2009 at 23:14

Vonsteve said:
My bad, I assumed it was available now. Yeah it's VASTLY faster than Vista! Boot time still isn't rapid but I'm hoping to buy an SSD for my laptop

Cheers bud! Look forward to getting this too

ScHwONG · 7 Oct 2009 at 23:19

I got mine from MSDNAA, free is most certainly as cheap as it gets, and I'm not regretting it one bit, upped my RAM to 6GB and switched to 7 pro 64bit, good times.

Fahim · 7 Oct 2009 at 23:19

I tried to buy one last night......but looks like, it is only upgrade, not the retail version I though it would be...

1337z0r · 8 Oct 2009 at 10:52

Is this going to be OEM or full retail? Will hopefully be ordering mine soon

.

Alex74 · 8 Oct 2009 at 11:26

Should be a Retail Upgrade version

Kanpai · 8 Oct 2009 at 14:01

Finally our student email address comes in handy. Ordered myself a copy!

Appelhanns · 8 Oct 2009 at 14:48

Just placed my order for pro 64bit.

Just out of curiosity, why would a full retail version be so much of a plus, apart from having a box and some manuals?

(in regards to the 64bit pro which requires a fresh install from most previous windows OS'.)

Thanks

1337z0r · 8 Oct 2009 at 15:08

Osian said:
Just placed my order for pro 64bit.

Just out of curiosity, why would a full retail version be so much of a plus, apart from having a box and some manuals?

(in regards to the 64bit pro which requires a fresh install from most previous windows OS'.)

Thanks

With the OEM versions once activated your product key is tied to the motherboard which you use when you install Windows 7, this means if you want to upgrade your motherboard you need to buy a new copy of Windows 7.

zooankski · 8 Oct 2009 at 17:41

looks like i need to get my mrs to buy me a copy too

Lydzor · 10 Oct 2009 at 21:12

Anyone else who has to go through moodle for their college/uni e-mail and is having trouble receiving the e-mail? College has probably blacklisted everything but inside contacts. :/

Red Porsche · 12 Oct 2009 at 22:52

I am extremely confused. So is it possible to buy the home premium edition (64bit) and do a clean install on a new acer laptop with vista (32bit) with this offer?

Thanks.

Red Porsche · 12 Oct 2009 at 23:11

Ive read this thread again, from my understanding if i bought a laptop with a 32bit OS i cant upgrade to the 64 bit version? If i did would it not let me install it or what?

Muel · 13 Oct 2009 at 01:51

I got both 32 bit and 64 bit versions for free through my Uni! Along with Visual Studio 2008, and XP 32 bit and 64 bit. (For the hell of it, they're free!)

Another link for you guys, www.software4students.co.uk, just bought Office 2007 through them for £35, (Uni didn't offer it), you're eligible as long as you have a .ac.uk email address, no checking your course or anything.

EDIT: Sorry, looks like you can't get W7 from there yet. Still, lots of other good deals.

iwrox · 15 Oct 2009 at 11:53

Ive just ordered the proffesional version of this, if used with my Retail version of Vista Premium does the upgrade also become full retail? Its all very confusing