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

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Limited-time offer allows university students to grab either Windows 7 Home Premium or Windows 7 Professional for £30.

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.edu? It was always .ac.uk when I was at uni.

.edu is US I believe - though the example in the smaller print suggests .ac.uk is acceptable too :)

Good deal :)

Sweet, I'm a student. :D

hmmm, is it 1 per student though? otherwise i'm tempted to call my student friend to get him to make an order or 2 for me ;-)

Good deal but is it for the Retail or Upgrade versions?

Home Premium and Pro for the same price? Why would you get HP?

I suspect this will be extended to staff at some point, possibly next year, as the last "ultimate steal" deal was

£30,000 worth of debt gets me another discount! w00t :D

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Originally Posted by UseItNow

Good deal but is it for the Retail or Upgrade versions?

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Not sure, but it says you need a kosher copy of either XP or Vista already, so my guess would be "upgrade"

Still, at that price it's fantastic!

I can get it now for free through MSDNAA.

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Originally Posted by Andehh

£30,000 worth of debt gets me another discount! w00t :D

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That's a lot of red stripe.

Impressive.

Anyone have any idea if something similar is available to students in Ireland?

Fantastic news, i'll pick up a copy to install after my academic license for Windows 7 runs out :)

F U! microsoft honestly FU! most of us students panic ordered them back in july, and only now you give this out?

GRR microsoft