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Students to get Windows 7 for £30 in the UK ($30 in the US too!)

Sep. 17, 2009 Paul Thurrott | Paul Thurrott's Supersite for Windows

Tom Warren over at Neowin told me this morning about an excellent Windows 7 offer in the UK, where students will be able to get either Windows 7 Home Premium or Professional for just £30:

We are offering students the opportunity to buy Windows 7 for an amazing discounted price, £30 for either Windows 7 Home Premium or Windows 7 Professional.

You can take advantage of this offer from October 1st but you will need to be quick as it is for a limited time only and is only eligible to college and university students with a valid .EDU email address (an email address given by the college or university, for example: Suzanne@leeds.ac.uk ), a PC that is currently running a genuine copy of Windows Vista or Windows XP and can run Windows 7.

This offer will be available from 1st October so please check back then for details on how to take advantage of this great offer.

But Tom has some additional news of interest to those outside the US:

US, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Korea and Mexico will also have similar offers but exact pricing varies by market.

Good stuff. Stay tuned.

UPDATE: Looks like the price is $29.99 in the US. Nice! Via twitter...

US college students - check out this amazing deal: Get Windows 7 for only $29.99! Details at http://bit.ly/win741

The site isn't live yet, but should be soon. Thanks again to Tom for keeping up on this.

Discuss this Article 80

EricoF3
on Sep 17, 2009
Why don't OSX White Leopard available for UK student for £2?
CompactDstrxion
on Sep 17, 2009
DAMMIT I already preordered 7
cashmone81
on Sep 17, 2009
@Erico Way to troll. Keep it up. Pertaining to the post, this is great. I will grab a copy to use if I need it for a VM or Boot Camp. Does anyone know if this is a upgrade or full version?
de Silentio
on Sep 17, 2009
There you go Grannyville, they did it for you. How do they know if you're a college student or not?
Logjamming
on Sep 17, 2009
- OSX Snow Leopard is 29 dollars for Tiger and Leopard users. Unless you're a retarded nitwit like Mike Gallos who was fictional nephews on fictional setups that absolutely make no sense at all. Unless you're a retarded nitwit like Mike Gallos. - It doesn't require a 8x7 grid to understand if and what you should do for an upgrade - OSX Snow Leopard contains everything; there aren't 8-12 different versions. - OSX Snow Leopard was created from the creative minds of Apple. Windows 7 was blatantly copied. Like Vista. - OSX Snow Leopard has already been released so you don't have to wait until Microsoft releases it. Nothing to see here.
de Silentio
on Sep 17, 2009
@Logjamming:"Nothing to see here. " Nothing to see, really. So, do you advise a poor college student who's parents just bought them an HP laptop last year to throw it away and purchase a new Mac. Or do you suggest they take this $30 deal. Nice personal attack, by the way. It shows that you really know what you're talking about.
crankenstein
on Sep 17, 2009
Good job Microsoft.
jctierney
on Sep 17, 2009
@de Silentio They ask for a valid college e-mail address in order to verify you. They may ask for more, but that's what I found when I visited the site.
jtdennis
on Sep 17, 2009
@de Silentio If it's like the Ultimate Steal deal then you have to have a .edu e-mail address. I assume they send something to that e-mail and you have to click a link to confirm the address.
Waethorn
on Sep 17, 2009
"They ask for a valid college e-mail address in order to verify you. They may ask for more, but that's what I found when I visited the site." Either an email address, or an ISIC. Any student that is travelling abroad should have an ISIC though.
EricoF3
on Sep 17, 2009
@Logjamming: Continue to live in a dream ... Apple suc*er...
Waethorn
on Sep 17, 2009
I'm guessing that for countries that already offer it, this will be available through The Ultimate Steal?
Logjamming
on Sep 17, 2009
@ de Silentio If his/her parents bought him/her an HP laptop, I'd suggest he/she drop out of college immediately. There's a fairly high correlation between parental intellect and offspring intellect. If your parents buy you an HP computer (perhaps the Envy? Fitting name), you can be fairly certain they aren't that smart. Chances are, neither are their children. The best they could do with that limited intellect is get an MSCE-certificate. That's what got Mike Galos thinking he's got IQ.
Ocean
on Sep 17, 2009
Logjamming is a troll. Trying to figure out how to buy this...I work for a educational institution...
EricoF3
on Sep 17, 2009
Logjamming said: "If his/her parents bought him/her an HP laptop, I'd suggest he/she drop out of college immediately." Here we can see you intelligence... LogJamming... Why don't you go in a Apple blog... Silly... With this kind of comment you just showing Apple *Fans* are idiots...
EricoF3
on Sep 17, 2009
@Ocean: If you find how to buy in Canada let me know...
mikegalos@msn.com
on Sep 17, 2009
Logjamming Actually, it was several IQ tests that told me about my IQ. But thanks for the PR.
stimshady
on Sep 17, 2009
makes me wish i was back at Nottingham again...
mikegalos@msn.com
on Sep 17, 2009
Ocean This particular program is for students and not for non-students who work at educational institutions.
stimshady
on Sep 17, 2009
hey MikeG, i think you have a fan!
gorath
on Sep 17, 2009
So students in the UK are paying 1.6 times more than US students? niiiiice.
EricoF3
on Sep 17, 2009
There's a fairly high correlation between parental intellect and offspring intellect. If your parents buy you a Mac computer, you can be fairly certain they aren't that smart because they make you work with technologies that near nobody use out there, and when you'll come out to work you will be lost to see you don't know anything about usual technologies... But, you'll have the advantage to be a better employee because of you habit to follow command blindly.The best they could do with that limited intellect and the natural ability to follow the god (Jobs) rules is get a rope and get strangled to death...
mikegalos@msn.com
on Sep 17, 2009
stimshady Well, as the old saying goes, there's no such thing as bad publicity as long as they spell the name right.
BioTurboNick
on Sep 17, 2009
I don't see an option on that site (741.com) for Professional, just Home Premium--and they make you chose 32- or 64-bit up front. Am I missing something? I'd really like professional.
BioTurboNick
on Sep 17, 2009
^win741.com, that is.
BioTurboNick
on Sep 17, 2009
Nevermind, it's there. You have to click the "Need to join your network's domain?" link. on the order page.
Waethorn
on Sep 17, 2009
"Trying to figure out how to buy this...I work for a educational institution..." Buy it from the Home Use Program through your educational volume license agreement. The volume license agreement account administrator (your school or school board should know who that is) would have information on how to do this. Regular software for business use would be purchased through the normal volume license agreement. Your educational institutional has one already don't they? If not, you get a FAIL! "If you find how to buy in Canada let me know..." Ditto, or else if for a student, watch http://www.theultimatesteal.ca There's also http://www.dreamspark.com for additional software (it's free). Finally, students can benefit from this program too: http://student-partners.com/
ropp29
on Sep 17, 2009
Thanks for posting this! Saved me some money plus I'll have a copy of Professional now. I only wish you could order 2.
Ocean
on Sep 17, 2009
>>If your parents buy you a Mac computer, you can be fairly certain they aren't that smart because they make you work with technologies that near nobody use out there<< Now THIS is the kind of stuff that causes blog postings to go off-topic...because it is a flat out lie.
RunTimeError
on Sep 17, 2009
What makes me laugh is that EricoF3, the self professed Apple hater, was the first person to bring up Apple in this thread. That being said, this is a good move on MS's part. A lot of students are going to love this deal :)
de Silentio
on Sep 17, 2009
@Logjamming Very intelligent response.
Ocean
on Sep 17, 2009
>>That being said, this is a good move on MS's part. A lot of students are going to love this deal<< I thought most people got their OS when they bought a new machine. My brother is a student...that looks like it might work for me...
Logjamming
on Sep 17, 2009
Mike, And even if you added the scores for these separate tests, your IQ probably wouldn't make into triple digits.
EricoF3
on Sep 17, 2009
Ocean said: "Now THIS is the kind of stuff that causes blog postings to go off-topic...because it is a flat out lie." He! I stop you right now Ocean... i just copy this text from Logjamming and change it a little to applied its text to Apple ... Read above the post of Logjamming... HE begin first...
Logjamming
on Sep 17, 2009
@ EricoF3 Great: copying something another one created! You'll fit nicely in this Microsoft-community.
EricoF3
on Sep 17, 2009
RunTimeError said: "What makes me laugh is that EricoF3, the self professed Apple hater, was the first person to bring up Apple in this thread." "the self professed Apple hater"!!!!! Where I ever professed to Hate Apple?? I never professed any thing like that I am sorry... Could you give some prof of that? Because I never told such a thing... I don't hate Apple... I hate Apple *Fanatics* ... That's it...
EricoF3
on Sep 17, 2009
Logjamming said: "And even if you added the scores for these separate tests, your IQ probably wouldn't make into triple digits." And your's is probably into one digits...
Waethorn
on Sep 17, 2009
@Logjam: We all know your IQ does not surpass your age.
Ocean
on Sep 17, 2009
>>And even if you added the scores for these separate tests, your IQ probably wouldn't make into triple digits.<< Where is the mod?
shark47
on Sep 17, 2009
"Could you give some prof of that? Because I never told such a thing... I don't hate Apple... I hate Apple *Fanatics* ... That's it..." Well, you're the one who first brought up Apple on this thread. If you're against Apple fanatics, why do you encourage them?
Waethorn
on Sep 17, 2009
Don't forget that students may be able to get software for low cost, or possibly for free through their MSDNAA agreement.
lotsamystuff
on Sep 17, 2009
"Unless you're a r******* nitwit like Mike Gallos." Logjamming, you make robertsjoe look like a reasoned commentator. Why don't you go back to whatever rock you crawled out from under and take a long nap? You bring NOTHING to the conversation.
mikegalos@msn.com
on Sep 17, 2009
Logjamming And now you're either demonstrating you don't know how to add or how to count up to 3 or both. Sad, really.
Dipsh t Admin
on Sep 17, 2009
I think logjamming is the same person as infiniteloop on Windows IT Pro. He seems to get in as the first commenter on nearly every post with the same type of drivel. "Logjamming, you make robertsjoe look like a reasoned commentator. " LOL! Never thought that such a thing would ever be possible, but that is certainly the case. RJ, take a bow. You are no longer the most reviled poster on here.
Prs
on Sep 17, 2009
"Logjamming, you make robertsjoe look like a reasoned commentator." I was under the impression that he *is* robertsjoe.
Ocean
on Sep 17, 2009
True or false: The ten free songs you get with a $15 ZunePass are DRM-free.
EricoF3
on Sep 17, 2009
shark47 said: "Well, you're the one who first brought up Apple on this thread. If you're against Apple fanatics, why do you encourage them?" Because I like to annoy them... I just play with them... All this is just a game... You should stop to talk the life so seriously... War between Apple *Fans* and Microsoft *Fans* is just a game... And its fun to argue about which one is ligitim or not and... so on... is quit simple, isn't it?
chuckb84
on Sep 17, 2009
@Logjamming, Mike's aggravates me sometimes, but he is not a nitwit. "So, do you advise a poor college student who's parents just bought them an HP laptop last year to throw it away and purchase a new Mac. Or do you suggest they take this $30 deal." No, I'd suggest the students with Macs get VMWare and use this deal to have Windows 7 as well. It's a good deal.
panache1023
on Sep 17, 2009
Ocean, What is the answer? Why wouldn't you just post whether it is DRM-Free or not?
Prs
on Sep 17, 2009
"True or false: The ten free songs you get with a $15 ZunePass are DRM-free." Dunno; bothered.

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