Buy Cheap Windows 7 for Students at $29.99 via Win741 Ultimate Steal Offer
If you’re a student, and want to get Windows 7, Microsoft has good bargain in store for you. A new discount promotion program has been launched which allows eligible students to buy or purchase Windows 7 Home Premium or Windows 7 Professional at just $29.99 per license or product key, representing 75% and 85% discount off Windows 7 listed retail price respectively. The deal is even better than the Windows 7 pre-oder promotional discount. No coupon code or discount code is needed, but interested consumer has to verify the student identity.
The Windows 7 discount offer for U.S. students is promoted through “741 – You’re the one” marketing campaign, which obviously means Windows 7 for you, at www.win741.com. The Windows 7 operating system product, if pre-ordered, will be delivered on October 22nd, 2009, the official Windows 7 launch date, via an email which will contain a link to access the download of the product. Customers can also pay an extra $13 to have the physical media as Backup DVD, where the disks delivery will also be shipped around this date, with a separate shipping confirmation email will be sent confirming the shipment.
To eligible for ultra-cheap Windows 7 promotion, one has to be eligible students who attend an educational institution geographically located in the United States. For verification, the student should possess a valid e-mail address at a U.S. educational institution which contains the domain suffix .edu or an email address given by one of the pre-approved universities or colleges listed here. Microsoft seems determined to let most students have Windows 7, thus if your institution is not listed, it’s possible to manually submit university or school email address for verification, or manually submit verifiable school enrollment such as ID via the manual validation process.
In additional, individual who taken up the ultimate steal offer must also be actively enrolled in at least 0.5 course credit, and able to provide proof of enrollment as current student upon request, or customer will be liable to reimburse Microsoft for the difference between what you paid and the estimated retail price of the software.
Students can purchase either Windows 7 Home Premium or Windows 7 Professional, both at the same price of $29.99. Considering price of Windows 7 Professional is much higher, which edition to buy is no-brainer. Windows 7 Professional is provided mainly for students who need to use Domain Join feature to log on to university or college network in order to access internal sites hosted on school network. Check out Windows 7 editions comparison.
Do note also that the license purchased is of retail Upgrade license, which means technically students must own an previous edition of Windows to install the new Windows 7, although students may not be able to upgrade directly and has to perform clean custom installation on some upgrade paths, such as from Windows XP, although there is workaround to upgrade directly to Windows 7 from Windows XP or manually transfer data via Windows Easy Transfer. To determine that users will be able to upgrade properly, students are encouraged to run Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor, and determine whether current computer runs in 32-bit or 64-bit operating system.
The offer is live now for U.S. residents, and runs until January 3rd, 2010. Microsoft plans similar offers in Canada, Australia, Korea, Mexico, France, and Germany, though the prices may be different, and most of those countries will have to wait until Oct. 22nd for the promotion to go live. Only one product may be purchased per eligible student.
The Windows 7 ultimate steal for students can be purchased at http://windows7.digitalriver.com/store/mswpus/en_US/DisplayHomePage.
Lastly, students in academic lab, faculty or department that enroll in MSDN AA (Microsoft Developer Network Academic Alliance), a global academic program for computer science, engineering, and information systems area of study, need not to buy Windows 7, as Windows 7 is available for free (no cost) through MSDNAA, including ISO download and product key.
Student price for Office 2010 is also available, and do check out more information on Windows 7.
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I found a genuine key on Google for $20, just search for wholesale software provider.
i have windows 7 home
now i thinking for the windows pro so it is godd to by upgread virson?
is it work like upgread or i have to do clean install tell me about it plzz ?
Can I upgrade from this Windows 7 Ultimate Steal to the regular Windows 7 Ultimate Edition?
Gah, double post. Sorry about that.
Unfortunately, the deal is now closed as of January 5, 2010. So much for that. This would have been really helpful.
Unfortunately, the deal seems to have closed as of January 5. So much for that.
Looks like it increased its price to $65 since October.
VERY VERY IMPORTANT READ THIS BEFORE BUYING!!!!
YOU CANNOT UPGRADE WITH THE ULTIMATE STEAL WINDOWS 7 PRODUCT FROM A PREVIOUS ULTIMATE STEAL WINDOWS VISTA BECAUSE THEY ARE DIFFERENT VERSIONS. THE ULTIMATE STEAL VISTA IS 'ULTIMATE' VERSION AND THE WINDOWS 7 IS 'PROFESSIONAL'. YOU HAVE NO CHOICE BUT TO DO A CLEAN INSTALL!!!!!
Could someone please provide me the link to the shop windows 7 that is provided in the email. It said that if you do not have a college @edu email account to enter your own email. I've waited the two weeks but no message. "/ I go to Remington college and we don't have our own @edu email addresses. Please i'm a student that needs my comp to be upgraded from lousy xp to win7 (i have the beta). My email is gamepwner23@gmail.com
Thank you.
Okay, actually it says in the FAQ's that to clean install you just have to select "Custom Install" from the menu. That allows for a completely clean install which makes the problems you mentioned obsolete.
I will be doing a clean install on my machine because I'm going from Vista 32bit home premium to Win7 Pro 64bit.
You can upgrade from 32 to 64 but you have to back up your programs and do a clean install and then reinstall your programs. Unfortunately it's not as simple as just doing a regular upgrade, but that's because of compatibility issues with 32bit drivers on a 64bit OS.
Microsoft is actually encouraging it's customers to go 64bit because of the production value increase, but of course they are smart enough not to simply discontinue their 32bit line as most general consumers still don't benefit greatly from the power that the upgrade is capable of.
*** IMPORTANT ***
This is for an Upgrade only
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Interesting the MS did not disclose that until it's time to pay for it. You will be taking your chances with an upgrade, especially if you have had your system for awhile. Be prepared for 20+ hours for an upgrade, and still not be assured of a problem free install.
The BEST way will be to do a clean install of the OS, but you won't find that with the Student discount.
Also, don't think about changing from 32 bit to 64 bit with an upgrade. No can do. They are trying to keep 64 bit on business machines only for some strange reason… or pay up!
Leave it to MS to further befuddle us why they don't just tell us up front that this is for an UPGRADE ONLY.
@ Carbonell
Many thanks for the response, will take a closer look.
Cheers
"Activated" WOW works great but its important to turn off antivirus before using the activator thanks a lot
@cBc – You are given the option to switch to Win 7 Pro after clicking the link sent to you after you register. It says, "Need to join your school’s network domain? You can also get Windows 7 Professional for $29.99" in the middle of the page.
I've looked everywhere on the 741 webpage, but cannot find anywhere that it says you can purchase Windows 7 PRO version, only Home Premium 32 or 64 bit. Am I missing something?
@megallanes – Well sure but that's still $300 Vs. $29 AND, the Technet Plus licenses is for EVAL only, it's not a DEV/TEST or Production license (if you read the details of the contract).
but it is way better to buy the technet direct plus (about $300), because it will give 10 "evaluation" (*) license for every version of windows and office.
(*) evaluation licenses never expires, neither they are limited.