Windows 7 for students.

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Im not sure whether this has been covered already or not but i read that microsoft will release windows 7 for students at lower price fo £30.00 in october. Would this offer be covered by overclockers? or am i being naive to assume that this offer will even make it to Europe?

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Cancel the pre-order then place an order for the student version.
The student campaign goes live on the 1st October and it will be a limited run available to College and University students.
Students can either order W7 Home Premium or Pro for the same price, however these are upgrade disks so must either have a working, legal and activated copy of XP or Vista.
XP users have to do a clean install instead of an upgrade (not a problem in any case)
Full details are available on the msn site. Am i allowed to link?
 
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Who counts as a student? I've finished but I don't officially graduate until I get my results...

Edit: Excellent, anyone with a .ac.uk email address :cool:
 
You usually buy it from a dedicated site and you get a download, or you can pay extra for a copy on dvd to be shipped to you. I think the site is run by microsoft, but it's not their normal marketplace iirc. I think I got the student copy from the 'ultimate steal' part of the MS store (google it, not sure if I can link that).
 
I think if you're a student doing a computing or ICT course you can get access to microsoft academic alliance - then you can get access to lots of free microsoft software.

I'm using Windows 7 professional x64 which I got from the site and managed to get the 32 bit version too before my account expired.
 
Good offer £30 time to buy a 1TB HDD or maybe a SSD :D

On my MSDN it says win7 available to download which version is the 64Bit ? it just says:
Windows 7 Professional (x64) - DVD (English)
Windows 7 Professional (x86) - DVD (English)

??

Edit: it says "Windows 7 Professional - English (32bit and 64bit) is now available in ELMS" What ELMS mean ?
 
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Prime said:
Students can either order W7 Home Premium or Pro for the same price, however these are upgrade disks so must either have a working, legal and activated copy of XP or Vista.
XP users have to do a clean install instead of an upgrade (not a problem in any case)
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Ok im planning on ordering w7 pro for the £30 but i cant find my original copy of xp >.< im using xp now but im sure its a dodgy copy my dad got from work lol so this mean im screwed if i get the student offer? Any help would be awesome :)
 
I have an OEM version of XP, I then upgraded my computer and installed W7 RC... Am I going to be able to upgrade? Will I have to 'downgrade' to XP to be able to do so???!
 
miceormen said:
Greedy git that I am, is there a Win 7 Ultimate version available to students?
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There isn't an offer like this for Ultimate, no. It's not surprising though as students aren't really going to require the extra features in Ultimate that Professional doesn't have.
 
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