This morning on Twitter, Microsoft Announced a new program which allows active college students in the US and the UK to receive Windows 7 Home Premium OR Windows 7 Professional at a sharp discount. $29.99 for US Students and £30 for UK Students. Students in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Korea and Mexico can also participate in the offer however they will need to wait until October 22nd (Windows 7 Release Day) and, the student prices for these countries have yet to be announced.
According to the Windows 7 Team Blog, students in the US can submit their orders immediately however UK students will need to wait until September 30th. When placing your orders you will be able to choose either a download link (which won’t be enabled until October 22nd) OR have the media shipped to you for an extra $15.
This Windows 7 Academic Offer/Promotion ends January 3rd, 2010 according to the Promotions Terms and Conditions so don’t waste anytime grabbing your copy unless of course you plan to grab a Free copy of Windows 7 at the free launch event OR, you already have pre-order copy on the way.
01/07/2010 Update – Unfortunately the $29.99 Student Deal has ended. The good news however is you can still pickup a copy of Windows 7 Pro for $65 or Office 2007 Ultimate for $60.
Here’s the link: Microsoft UltimateSteal for Windows 7 and Office 2007 for Students. Personally I would skip the Office 2007 purchase and just grab a free copy of Office 2010 Beta.
Already registered for the Launch event October 12th baby – Free copy of Windows 7 inbound!
That’s wonderful! How about discounting software for unemployed adults? MS Office 2007 is $500 and change.
Same is the case for Adobe, if you buy single applications, they are expensive, but if you want to buy the updated collection: Adobe CS4 Master Collection is $2499. Really affordable?
So much for wanting to learn new skills.
@CKJ,
I agree… It’s not cheap thats for sure! My suggestion, take a look at the Microsoft Technet PLUS subscription. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/subscriptions/default.aspx
Granted it’s still $350 for year 1 and $250 annually after that but, it basically gives you access to almost ALL Microsoft titles (Here’s the list: http://technet.microsoft.com/subscriptions/downloads/default.aspx) all without a time bomb or limited in anyway. It’s the program I use for my Evaluation and testing here on groovyPost.com and it’s a lot cheaper than the old MSDN Subscriptions.
If you think about those prices it breaks down to be $25 a month over a 3 year period. That’s probably what you spend on Starbucks.
Hope that helps (a bit)….
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ITS ONLY FOR STUDENTS WITH AN EDU EMAIL ADDRESS .ALL OTHER COLLEGE STUDENTS WHO’S COLLEGE DOES NOT HAVE THIS PROGRAM WILL HAVE TO PAY FULL PRICE . WAY TO GO MICROSOFT NOT ALL COLLEGE STUDENTS ARE CREATED EQUAL !!!!
@JOSEPH HUMPHREYS,
Hi Joseph. I dug into the deal a bit and did find some good news. Take a look here: http://su.pr/341JWc : It’s the list of schools which are don’t provide .EDU addresses however are registered to participate in the program.
If your school is not on THAT list, then you can visit this link: http://su.pr/28cSOD : and apply to have your school added to the list. I’ve not run through the process so keep us updated if you do!
Good luck Joseph!
@MrGroove,
not even a return email ???? tried twice
@JOSEPH HUMPHREYS,
To catch-up other readers who might be going through this same process. Essentially what Joseph did was attempt to contact Microsoft to add a university to the list of approved schools since the university Joseph is dealing with does not have .edu addresses.
After 2 emails to Microsoft, no response from Joseph. And you called them also right? Good to know for other who might be going through this same process…..
Sorry man.. keep us updated here.