do you all find it helps a lot when making purchases? for my school ms office pro plus is only 84.98. the Commercial SRP is $599. this is off journeyed.com. what about hardware purchases?
Hardware you're pretty much out of luck unless you're going through a college and a big integrator like Dell. Then sometimes you'll see a discount, but rarely on anything you'd actually want to /purchase/...
you can do (or should be able to) a lot better than that on software! i purchased MS Office Pro (XP Version) for 9.99! i was in grad school at UT-Austin at the time. journeyed is good for stuff that your school might not carry, but you should always contact your school store and/or the computing services dept to see what software they sell and for how much first...
MSDN Academic Alliance (MSDN AA) is designed to provide the easiest and most inexpensive way for universities to make the latest Microsoft software available in labs, classrooms, and on student PCs. MSDN AA is an annual membership program for departments that use technology in support of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) courses.
I am going to be an undergraduate student at GT starting this summer so I'll be able to get the software listed below for free (if downloaded). There's a charge if you want it to be shipped.
Project Professional 2003
Visio Professional 2003
Visual Studio .NET 2003 Professional - Full Install
Visual Studio .NET 2003 Professional
Windows XP Professional
Win XP Pro ISO Image
Visual Studio 6
Visual Studio .NET
Visual Studio 2005 Pro
MS Data Analyzer
Office FrontPage 2003
Office Groove 2007
OneNote 2003
OneNote 2007
Project Professional 2002
Project Professional 2007
SharePoint Designer 2007
Visio Professional 2002
Visio Professional 2007
Visual Studio .NET 2005 Professional - Full Install
Windows Vista Business DVD