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Microsoft College Student discount program

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I am not sure where I saw the link, I think it was here or bit-tech, but there was an educational program where college students could buy Microsoft software such as access, publisher, and windows for much cheaper than the prices listed on the microsoft website program. If I remember correctly, they had windows xp for around $15 for eligible students...........

My girlfriend goes to the UofM, and her computer is going to need to be rebuilt soon. She's wanting to use a legal copy of windows tihs time around, but being a college student....well ya know.

It wasn't a microsoft website I was looking at, I just wish I had bookmarked it. :(

Cheers.
 
She should go to her college bookstore or library, and ask about student licensing. It's typically something around $5 for XP, if it's not free. You wouldn't obtain it through Microsoft, unless you want the academic licensing, which is going to cost much more than going through her college. If by UofM, you mean Michigan, I would be completely shocked if XP and Office weren't available to her.
 
i went to my university's bookstore, and they knew nothing about any kind of educational partnership with microsoft, they directed me to the software section, their "discounts" were not impressive. 10% at most.

later that week, i overheard some students talking about free microsoft software for students in our college of engineering, which i'm in. we could get free OSes, office, visual studio, and pretty much everything MS had to offer. i had already switched to linux by then, and i had no use for any of them until a few weeks ago, when i discovered the free vmware server.

so my point is, if the university bookstore knows nothing of any discounted or free software, tell her to ask the office of the college she's in (if she has chosen a major yet of course).
 
I go to a Texas public shcool and they sell the software, though they charge around $30 for XP it is better then retail
 
Well if your so worried about being legit you can buy the upgrade to xp home which is pretty cheap. I think it's $99. You don't actually have to have a previous OS on the computer just the CD for 98 ME or 2k. The installer claims it can't find a previous OS and asks you to put in the CD for one of them. It looks at a few files and says okay nifty and installs XP.

As for office the store I work at sells the student and teacher license pack for $140. I have never looked around for a better deal since I use open office but that's what I was told it costs.

I like the sound of all these people saying you can buy XP for $5 if I found that I would sign up for 1 college class and buy the bookstore out of copies.
 
This is the Microsoft Campus Licensing Agreement. Under the agreement, each student is entitled to (1) copy of whatever software the college has decided to license for its students at some drastically reduced price. In the case of my university, we originally could get Office X for Mac, Frontpage 2000 (I think), Office XP, and Windows XP for $5 a disc.

Then, after Frontpage 2003, OneNote, and Office 2003 all came out, we could get those as well. Most recently, we have Office 2004 for Mac OSX, and a dual disc set with Windows XP 32-bit AND 64-bit editions which also only costs $5. Needless to say, I have all of these, and in some cases, I have two of some because other people didn't want it so I got it from them.

My school also has campus wide licensing for Visual Studio 2003 that can be installed off the network, as well as Windows 2000 that can be borrowed from the library.

This is not the same as the bookstore discount - you can't just buy up tons of copies and legally, they can't be used after you lose student status (as in when you stop taking classes).

You should probably ask around in the engineering or computer science department for a campus licensing agreement with Microsoft.

Hope that helps.
 
Yeah, that is exactly the program I was talking about. We weren't sure how she could go about doing it.

Cheers.
 
I go to Texas Tech and under software agreement programs, I was able to purchase Windows XP SP2 for $20, Norton Antivirus 10 w/ 2 years free updates for $7.
 
Have her go to ADCS in Shepard Hall or to OIT over by Peking Garden.

But she's still paying for it with her freedom, install linux for her.
 
UofM meant University of Minnesota. It's ok though.

As for her using linux, that will never happen. I have to help her out with Windows XP enough as it is.



Wait..........maybe you're onto something.

I don't use linux, nor know much about it. Playing dumb would be great! :D
 
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