Cheapest place for XP Pro?

[FunkyT]

I'm entitled to buy software with a student license and was wondering where the cheapest place to get a legit copy of the above would be?

Thanks gang!

[BUFF]

don't think that you get a cheap student licence for MS OS like you do with Office so afaik it's an OEM copy
Perhaps your educational establishment has a volume licence of some kind for student use?

http://www.microsoft.com/uk/educatio...re-to-buy/aer/

[Mike Fishcake]

Like Buff says, don't think you can (fairly sure you used to be able to) but for other stuff, go here:

http://www.education-store.com/store....do?pubID=6109

[FunkyT]

Thanks very much.

Where would be the cheapest/best place to buy an OEM of Windows XP Pro?

[dave87]

I got mine from dabs.com - worth a look even if they are now owned by BT. Otherwise Scan are usually pretty competitive

[BlindMelon7]

Yeh, I would always go for scan, even if you find it cheaper somewhere else.
Hell, I'm starting to sound like a fanboy.

[mart_haj86]

tbh Windows XP Pro OEM is going to be roughly the same price wherever you go give or take a pound here or pound there.

[chrestomanci]

tbh Windows XP Pro OEM is going to be roughly the same price wherever you go give or take a pound here or pound there.

Yes but different retailers have different interpertaions of what hardware you have to buy with it in order to qualify as OEM.

I know scan insist you buy a Motherboard, CPU or Hard drive, but I have heard that some places will let you have the OS with just a cheap £5 mouse or suchlike.

[Mike Fishcake]

Micro Direct usually sell it with a mouse. Not sure if they're technically allowed to, but it won't affect your license anyway

[Trippledence]

You can get Windows MCE for around the same money, which is built on Pro, scan is good as alwase to buy it OEM, with a power cable or something

[DavidM]

Strangely enough on offer at the moment, but make sure you buy some qualifying hardware with it of course

[chuckskull]

Strangely enough on offer at the moment, but make sure you buy some qualifying hardware with it of course

Does a power cable count as qualifying hardware? just out of curiosity. you cant run a Pc without it