Windows 7 Student Upgrades Cost $50
There’s not too many ways of scoring a copy of Windows 7 on the cheap, but students do have one useful option: an upgrade to the Home Premium or Professional release for $49.95.
To be eligible for the special, you need to have a valid university or TAFE email address; Microsoft will validate it and send you a link (which suggests a download rather than a delivery; given the size of the Windows installer, make sure you’re on a high-speed campus link before you start installation). Once you’ve scored your copy, check out our exhaustive guide to Windows 7.Thanks Geoffrey!
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I’d like to add. If you purchase the physical copy (which is a $14 top-up from that $49.95), you can do a clean install with that copy rather than just an upgrade offered by the download. So in a sense.. You’re buying the full version of Windows 7 for $63.95 (but I could be wrong)
My bad. Went to do a bit more research and you have to have a full copy of Windows XP/Vista to do the clean install. Durh!
You can turn the upgrade into a full version really easily by extracting the files and making it into a bootable iso with the free microsoft program oscdimg.
I did it yesterday and clean installed it with no other operating system installed.
google for guides
@cammo
i got vista ultimate x64 installed currently on my laptop. planning to buy/dl student upgrade windows 7 Pro x64 offer.
I am bit of noob, so could you please let me know how to do the clean install using upgrade student dl??
Do I just need to :
1. purchase and dl windows from microsfot site
2. make an iso from it
3. burn the iso to dvd (BTW how big the iso will be?? normal 4.7 GB DVD enough??)
4. boot the PC from the DVD
5. format the harddisk from there
6. continue with Windows 7 Installation
Could you please tell me if those steps are correct? I am scared screwing up my PC..
Thanks heaps in advance.
Just bought the Professional upgrade.
For an additional ~$14 you can have a DVD shipped to you.
bought it. couple of things i didn’t like:
1) my laptop has only 1GB of memory and it’s not enough to support all my software. that’s on me.
2) many software packages fail to install. tortoisesvn, quicktime. they just fail.
3) permissions – i hate, hate, hate mac for not letting me delete my own files. now windows has adopted the same policies. and without the unix prompt to remedy the situation. e.g. eraser couldn’t erase my files because it needed administrator access; um, i’m the administrator?
4) portable apps – couldn’t install under Program Files or on C: and save settings.
now, maybe some of these have solutions, or will have solutions. didn’t find anything immediately obvious on the web. i’ll wait until they fix these things, if ever.
for now, i’m happy enough to go back to xp pro. thanks, anyways, microsoft.
If you pay an extra $14 you can get a DVD version delivered. It gives you the option when you go through the checkout process.
The picture on LH shows the Professional version but the one on offer is Home Premium Upgrade.
After you’ve registered your student ID to get the confirmation blablabla, you get the option to choose Windows 7 Home Premium or the Pro edition.
@scott
you can right click on eraser and ‘open as administrator’. Hopefully that solves your problem.
is there a FULL installer or DVD for the student version of the Windows 7?
@Rich – thanks! i’ll try it again when i reinstall.
as for the bootable dvd/usb drive…
to create an iso image:
http://www.mydigitallife.info/2009/10/23/how-to-create-and-make-bootable-windows-7-iso-from-exe-plus-setup1-box-and-setup2-box-files/
to install from a dvd drive instead:
http://www.askvg.com/create-windows-7-bootable-usb-drive-or-dvd-using-official-windows-7-usbdvd-download-tool-from-microsoft/
my usb drive was just under 4gb, so once i made it bootable, i just copied the files over (from the first link).
installed first time, no problems. prob’ly picked up my copy of xp when i ran the install program?
Do there download options or delivered option include 64-bit pro?
The license u bought include 32bit and 64bit. But u have to choose 32bit or 64bit of dvd to be delivered or downloaded.
Actual charge is $51.45 & $14.42 total $65.87. An overcharge of $1.92 multiplied by however many sold?