Windows 7 Pro upgrade $30 for US/UK/CA/AU college students

[Dominus Atheos]

Website, US ordering page direct link.

You need an @.edu email address to qualify. UK students have to wait until September 30th before they can purchase it when it will be £30. Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Korea, and Mexico have to wait until October 22nd. No word on pricing for them.

Home Premium also available. It's an upgrade copy so the license says you need a copy of Vista or XP to use it. It's a digital download or you can pay $13 to have disks sent out to you. This is a pre-order only so no matter when you buy it it will be available for download on October 22nd. The offer is good until January 3rd 2010 for most countries or March 31st 2010 for Australia. Even if you aren't a current student if you have a .edu email address you should still be able to get it. MSDNAA students will still be able to get an OEM copy for free off of that website. See also Microsofts Ultimate Steal for Vista Ultimate upgrade and Office 2007 Ultimate for $65 and $60 respectively, only for US residents with .edu email addresses.

Edit: Whoops, wrong forum and I can't delete the post. Punt to G&C plz.

[starslayer]

How is Pro available using this offer? All I'm able to get is Home Premium, and yes, I am an American university student.

[Dominus Atheos]

Once it confirms your email, then the option for pro will appear by clicking the "Need to join your school's network domain? Click here" link.

[Dominus Atheos]

This is going to be the site for UK members to order it from, but like I said it's inactive until the 30th.

[Archaic`]

AU students will likely be using this site again, though nothing there talks about it yet.

[Bluewolf]

Given how much MS has been dicking around with Europe (or vice versa) when it comes to Win 7, this is quite a nice development. Wont make up for it but it's good.

[Exonerate]

If your school department subscribes to the Microsoft Academic Alliance (Check http://www.msdnaa.net/search/schoolsearch.aspx), you can get it for free. This only really applies to CompSci/EE/Other engineering students though.

[Stargate Nerd]

If your school department subscribes to the Microsoft Academic Alliance (Check http://www.msdnaa.net/search/schoolsearch.aspx), you can get it for free. This only really applies to CompSci/EE/Other engineering students though.

I took advantage of this free offer just yesterday. Downloaded Windows 7 Pro as back up once my Release Candidate expires in March.

I'm a Business Major btw.

[Netko]

I've been running my MSDNAA copy (btw, its a retail not-for-resale copy, not OEM) of the 64-bit Professional for a month now - its what Vista should have been, in terms of user interface improvements - the new taskbar is simply a much better and useful concept then the last one, especially on space-limited screens like netbooks and portrait-rotated displays (on my laptop, with an 800px width when rotated for reading in bed, on Vista I practically always got a two-row taskbar that I had to scroll through, which never happens on 7), while the various edge-snap features are very useful for programming work on a single screen. There is also a bevy of new keyboard shortcuts (mostly centered on the winkey) that are really useful on both single and multimonitor configurations. Theres a bunch of other improvements as well, but this is something that I've noticed to really be helpful in daily usage.

[Dominus Atheos]

I got my link today. For those that still haven't taken advantage, here's the US link, here's the UK link, and here's the AU link. Canada, France, Germany, Korea, and Mexico also have a similar discount, but I don't feel like googling for the links.

As if anyone didn't see this coming, the AU price is $49.99 AUD; or about $45 USD. I never fail to find it hilarious just how much Australia gets screwed over on prices for EVERYTHING, even if it's a digital download that doesn't cost a damn thing extra to get to them.

[Mr Bean]

I got my link today. For those that still haven't taken advantage, here's the US link, here's the UK link, and here's the AU link. Canada, France, Germany, Korea, and Mexico also have a similar discount, but I don't feel like googling for the links.

As if anyone didn't see this coming, the AU price is $49.99 AUD; or about $45 USD. I never fail to find it hilarious just how much Australia gets screwed over on prices for EVERYTHING, even if it's a digital download that doesn't cost a damn thing extra to get to them.

You forget the best part where items are shipped through Australia in order to reduce shipping costs from places like Thailand and China. Then after going to the US via Australia to reduce import fees(When Fuel prices are low enough to justify it) they turn around and send the same shipment to Australia and charge that extra twenty percent just because.

[charlemagne]

Germany, [...] also have a similar discount, but I don't feel like googling for the links.

I just downloaded Win7 Pro 64bit and 32bit ISOs for free. German universities offer the MSDNAA copies and keys free of charge to all students, not just science or whatever (at least mine does, I'm guessing it's the same with other universities). Actually I've already got English Win7 Pro ISOs back in August, I even dicked around with language packs etc. and made German ISOs out of them, but then I've been too lazy to do a full Windows re-install - I'm running Vista Home Premium right now, which won't upgrade to Win7 Pro.

Anyways, strange how it's free in some countries and not in others.