News - Microsoft offers Windows 7 to UK university students for £30

[rich951]

Well, this isn't going to cost them too much - not many UK students have a .edu email address!

(not sure whether they will include schools in as well as .ac.uk addresses)

[Scarlet Infidel]

W7 on a Netbook seems like an excellent idea. I can't wait to try it. Should be more ready for SSD than XP

It works really well for me, I don't notice it being any slower than XP was.

[HSK]

Well, this isn't going to cost them too much - not many UK students have a .edu email address!

(not sure whether they will include schools in as well as .ac.uk addresses)

I dont think the article is worded correctly - on MS's site:

a valid .EDU email address (an email address given by the college or university, for example: Suzanne@leeds.ac.uk )


So a .EDU email adress is any email address given by an educational institute I'm guessing.

[baius]

It works really well for me, I don't notice it being any slower than XP was.

That's excellent news. Vista must be feeling really, really lonely right now.

[ahoyhoyhoy]

On the subject of student software, here is a great website:

https://www.dreamspark.com/default.aspx

You can download Windows server 2008 R2 Standard (not enterprise though so no Hyper-V)! Make some easy fine tuning and you have a lean Windows 7.

It just requires your university login credentials to verify that you are a student. Haven't been able to test it myself yet though.

[PatK]

Not a bad deal, but Microsoft have always made the Ultimate version of their OS available to students for about £55 via the software4students.co.uk website anyway..