$15.75 for Windows Vista Ultimate Upgrade (Not installing it yet) Retail is $250
$0 for Windows Office 2007 Retail is $150 I think
$31.25 for Windows Visual Studio 2005 Professional Edition Retails for $800
Total of $47 paid.
I had to pay a technology tuition fee of $173.50 but it seems to have paid off nicely.
Anyone else goes to a Uni/college with an agreement like this?
I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who constantly says: "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action"; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a "more convenient season."
My entire uni campus is blanketed in wifi, and I have a whole slew of programmes I can get for free. For instance ChemDraw, retailing for six hundred dollars or more depending on the edition, I get for free. A really nice SSH client, and a bunch of others besides.
My campus is really technophilic. I love it.
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The version of Vista we're being offered is apparently spread over five disks. I'm wondering if it's a collection of all the editions, or just a strangely chopped up Vista Business (most likely)?
I don't know. For me, Vista and Office were produced in DVDs.
I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who constantly says: "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action"; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a "more convenient season."
3 licenses of Vista Business - 0$
3 licenses of XP Pro - 0$
VS 2005 Enterprise or whatever is the "strongest" suite - 0$
Windows 2003 Server/Business/(every other edition under the sun except the datacenter one) - 0$
Virtual PC (back when they charged for it) - 0$
Basically every other MS product except Office - 0$
I <3 my faculty's MSDNAA program.
Although I do feel a bit like MS is acting like a crack dealer in this situation, getting poor unsuspecting students hooked early on its products (my subspecialisation is programming engineering, and that program is almost exclusively VS based for programming and gives you extra pain if you want to use something else), but meh, I don't give much of a damn. Free swag!
Hope they put up Home Server up there at some point, the flimsy justification that we need the platform to familiarize ourselves with it will hopefully work - you never know when one of us students will write that killer addin! Honest!
Pezzoni wrote:The version of Vista we're being offered is apparently spread over five disks. I'm wondering if it's a collection of all the editions, or just a strangely chopped up Vista Business (most likely)?
Both DVD and the 5 CD one are available to me on MSDNAA - no difference once you install, you can even use the keys interchangeably (like me who got the key for the CD version but installed DVD).
At my college, we can download Office 2007 for free. Also, we can download and install MATLAB, but it uses a network license that only seems to work when the computer is on campus. It's still pretty awesome.
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Yea I just found my own uni's MSDNAA site and I've downloaded quite a couple other programs.
I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who constantly says: "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action"; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a "more convenient season."
16 bucks for a mere upgrade? I get a full 32bit Vista Ultimate for 15 bucks.
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Ace Pace wrote:Holy shit I hate you people. Anyone capable of offering up acess?
The Guv'ment and Guv'ment contractors have similiar deals
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Soontir C'boath wrote:$15.75 for Windows Vista Ultimate Upgrade (Not installing it yet) Retail is $250
Sounds like you paid too much.
Hey, I need to buy a new desktop!
But yea, I'm waiting for all the bugs to be sorted out too.
Fingolfin_Noldor wrote:16 bucks for a mere upgrade?
Yea, it's most likely because they believed people would have XP and wouldn't need a full version. Sucks but whatever.
I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who constantly says: "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action"; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a "more convenient season."
Molyneux wrote:...why the heck would you pay money for Vista?
I do need to get Visual Studio, though. I think my campus has something like that, but I haven't done it yet...
Because it's a nice new operating system from Microsoft that has had most of it's kinks worked out by now?
The interface is ugly, though. And isn't it even more "OS-for-dummies" - that is, trying to keep the user from actually accessing the settings of the system - than XP is?
Molyneux wrote:
The interface is ugly, though. And isn't it even more "OS-for-dummies" - that is, trying to keep the user from actually accessing the settings of the system - than XP is?
I've never had any troubles accessing the system settings. In fact, it's almost retardedly easy. The only real difference is that Vista actually makes you confirm that you want to change the settings so accidental changes are more difficult.
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But yea, I'm waiting for all the bugs to be sorted out too.
