Cracking good deals

Lyra Fangs

I was digging around trying to find a site that sold microsoft office and windows 7 cheaper than instore.

Having just bought a netbook I wasn't looking forward to spending another 99 euro and 150 euro on them respectively :eek:.

Found this site:
http://www.software4students.ie/Microsoft_Office_2010_Professional_Plus-details.aspx
http://www.software4students.ie/Microsoft_Windows_7_Professional_64_bit_Upgrade_Edition-details.aspx

Maybe you know of it already but thought I'd inform the masses anyway :pac:.

Zonda999

They've been knwn about around here for a few months alright but they're still cracking deals none the less

Lyra Fangs

Oh well.

Looks like I finally caught up to everyone else :P.

Spipov

do you have to upgrade or can you install (ie formatting the drive and installing from fresh then?)

chris85

They have great deals. Got office pro 2010 full version for €65 fee weeks ago.

They have been around for years though. none the less the more that know the better.

Jimdagym

Do you need to be a student to avail?

chris85

Jimdagym wrote: »

Do you need to be a student to avail?

no

Leslie91

Maybe someone can help me with this one. My laptop has Vista home premium on it. Is it possible to upgrade to Windows 7 Professional?.

Monotype

Jimdagym wrote: »

Do you need to be a student to avail?

I think that the terms are that you have to be either a student or have kids which are students/attending school or be a teacher/involved in education.

Leslie91 wrote: »

Maybe someone can help me with this one. My laptop has Vista home premium on it. Is it possible to upgrade to Windows 7 Professional?.

Yes, that would be fine. Any version of XP/vista will do AFAIK.

RayCarley

Spipov wrote: »

do you have to upgrade or can you install (ie formatting the drive and installing from fresh then?)

You can do a clean install with these upgrade versions. It's actually quite easy.

Check out: http://www.winsupersite.com/article/windows-7/clean-install-windows-7-with-upgrade-media.aspx

Installing twice (option 3) worked for me when I installed.

ted f

Jimdagym wrote: »

Do you need to be a student to avail?

Read the small print for each package. Adobe for instance say that there are no serial number supplied and you will need to send confirmation of student details to validate, and if you don not then no refund will be made. That's how I read it anyway

stevenmu

Microsoft also provide some of there other software free for students:

Microsoft Dreamspark

Mostly acedemic/developer/designer tools so not much use for the average home user, but worth menioning anyway.

Dublin_Gunner

Monotype wrote: »

I think that the terms are that you have to be either a student or have kids which are students/attending school or be a teacher/involved in education.



Yes, that would be fine. Any version of XP/vista will do AFAIK.

Not entirely true. You cannot 'upgrade' 32bit windows to 64bit Windows 7. (this counts for ANY XP /Vista / Win 7)

Also, you cannot 'upgrade' from XP - it requires a 'clean' install. Even though they don't make it easy, and you're entitled to.

Monotype

I was really referring to the legal requirements rather than migrating to a new OS, but I should have been clearer. I've read that with Win 7, you can do a clean install from boot with the upgrade edition as long as it detects an old installation of windows (i.e., you don't necessarily have to launch from inside windows like vista upgrades).

Dublin_Gunner

Monotype wrote: »

I was really referring to the legal requirements rather than migrating to a new OS, but I should have been clearer. I've read that with Win 7, you can do a clean install from boot with the upgrade edition as long as it detects an old installation of windows (i.e., you don't necessarily have to launch from inside windows like vista upgrades).

You can do it without having another version there at all

A link posted above outlines 3 methods. MS actually support doing a clean install from the upgrade disk, as they understand people need to format / upgrade from different versions so they allow it. However, they don't make it straight forward.

Spipov

is it me or is the website down?any links i click in it go to runtime error, however, i can add to the basket. i am not taking the chance of buying as im sure there is a glitch somewhere at the moment.