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Microsoft Student Discounts ending.
40inches - 3/2/12 at 06:19 PM

These are coming to an end on March 31st. Read here

tegwin - 3/2/12 at 07:17 PM

haha. I can see students just using pirated versions instead.... quite simple really...

snapper - 4/2/12 at 06:34 AM

It's an obvious sales pitch.
I suspect a new version will be out soon and student discounts will be available for the new version

jabs - 4/2/12 at 09:13 AM

Says it all towards the end

3. Alternative Products




Software4Students will introduce a new range of Microsoft Office and Windows 7 products that students and their parents will be able to buy at discounted prices after this date.

iank - 4/2/12 at 09:33 AM

I suspect too many people were getting the full office for £30 as it's really easy to get the discount (only requirement is to have a kid in school)
Either they're going to bring out a crippled version (like the works package) or increase the costs/make it harder to qualify for the discount.

OpenOffice/LibreOffice is pretty much as good as office for what 99% of home users want to do - i.e. write the occasional letter.


[Edited on 4/2/12 by iank]

Mr C - 6/2/12 at 07:03 PM

Has anyone bought from this site, I'm presuming its above board etc.

iank - 6/2/12 at 07:27 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Mr C
Has anyone bought from this site, I'm presuming its above board etc.


Looks legit, Microsoft have a pointer on their site. http://www.microsoft.com/uk/education/students/software4students/default.aspx

40inches - 6/2/12 at 08:34 PM

quote:
Originally posted by iank
quote:
Originally posted by Mr C
Has anyone bought from this site, I'm presuming its above board etc.


Looks legit, Microsoft have a pointer on their site. http://www.microsoft.com/uk/education/students/software4students/default.aspx


It's the company in my link in 1st post, I got Windows7 Pro 64bit from them, for £38, about a year ago.
Should say that I already had 7 Home, and the licence for that was still active after upgrade, so I installed it on my Netbook

[Edited on 6-2-12 by 40inches]

adrianreeve - 6/2/12 at 09:24 PM

I bought from them a couple of weeks ago, quick service, deffo legit. Only problem was I bought the wrong thing. Thought I could upgrade from 32 bit vista to 64 bit 7, turns out you can't!

So if anyone wants to buy an upgrade to 64 bit windows 7 professional, hasn't been activated, I'm selling for £30 posted.

Cheers

Adrian

SeanStone - 6/2/12 at 09:59 PM

you can do a fresh install

adrianreeve - 6/2/12 at 11:10 PM

No you can't! It lets you do a clean install, then when you enter the product key, it tells you that you can't do a clean install with this upgrade edition!

Cheers

Adrian

SeanStone - 7/2/12 at 07:17 AM

3 options here! http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/31402-clean-install-upgrade-windows-7-version.html and I did the last one