Microsoft Matches Snow Leopard Price With Windows 7, But Only for Students

[Lesser Evets]

Microsoft is still the greatest comedy act on the face of the earth.

Scratch that.

They are second to the people who buy their products and love them.

 

[angemon89]

Awesome. This is a no brainer purchase for me.

 

[daneoni]

Sorry - what does this have to do with Mac?

This place is more obsessed with Zune and Win7 than anywhere else on the web.

I have a hard time figuring out how this gets the front page treatment.

Either way, apples vs oranges.

Because its also www.pcrumors.com

Back on topic this might actually make me get Win 7

 

[inkswamp]

So just home premium then? The summary says the pro version too but I don't see that on the special offer page.

 

[stylewriter]

Not what the article promises.

I only get the option to buy Win7-Home-Upgrade, with no option for either Win7-Pro-Upgrade or to get a disk...

 

[twoodcc]

more proof that apple is making a difference. and more proof that microsoft just copies what they do

 

[angemon89]

BOOOOO, it's the upgrade version.

 

[KnightWRX]

Interesting move my Microsoft. I never thought they would do something like this. Tempting.

You must not have ever visited a student COOP then. This is about the same level of news as "The sky is blue".

Microsoft have always sold heavily discounted software to students.

 

[milbournosphere]

I would think that if Microsoft learned anything from Vista, it would be to fix their pricing disaster. This day in age, to even get a decently functioning copy of 7, you will need to look into Home Premium edition, and a clean install (which Microsoft recommends) will set you back $200, and this is for a gimped version of the OS! To get a non-feature-limited version of the OS, it will run you $300. Their version setup is ridiculous. If they would have learned their lesson, they would have either cut it back to one version (familiar, anyone?) or at least take it back to two versions, like in the XP days. I shake my head when I think of this. They may have made vast improvements in the OS itself, but I won't consider it a good OS until they do away with this needless versioning (is that a word?) system that they have going on.

 

[RMo]

Sorry - what does this have to do with Mac?.

Other than the fact that Microsoft and Apple are competitors, and Microsoft just lowered the price of their soon-to-be-upgrade to (concidentally? I think not) match the price of Snow Leopard?

Yeah, I don't think Apple has anything to do with this.

But I know what you mean, and it could be considered more like Page 2 news.

 

[HONDAxACURA]

DO NOT BUY IT FELLOW MACRUMORS!

Teach Microsoft a lesson. They cannot keep copying Apple to survive!

Boycott Windows 7!!!

 

[idiosyncratic i]

This is a really smart move by MS. At $200, pirating it would be a complete no-brainer. At $30, some students might actually be tempted to get it the legal route. A fair number of $30 sales is a whole lot better than no $200 sales.

 

[KnightWRX]

Other than the fact that Microsoft and Apple are competitors, and Microsoft just lowered the price of their soon-to-be-upgrade to (concidentally? I think not) match the price of Snow Leopard?

They did ? Unless you mean to tell us students are Microsoft's only customers, then I think you need to reread this article.

Windows 7 is still as expensive as it was yesterday for most of the population.

 

[jrpvt]

I wouldn't mind having a legal copy of Windows 7.

I don't want the Home-Premium version though, it disables the XP compatibility mode. Does anyoen see how to get the Professional version?

Anyone know if this is the Full or Academic version? The academic version can't legally be used on a computer that you use to make money...

I got to the Professional upgrade version by clicking the Need to Join Your School's Network Domain link after you get the offer for Windows Home Premium. Then an offer for 7 Professional came up. I'm going to preorder it now.

 

[arkmannj]

hmm

So, I'm looking at the process right now.
it's 29.99 for the Win 7 Home Premium (Upgrade version)
and it wants you to pick 32bit or 64bit. don't they just put both installers on the same disk ?
just mark this as another thing I love about Mac OS X ..one freaking version, (not home, pro, ult.) and then after finding your version you get to pick 32bit or 64bit.

Plus for Snow Leopard I got the physical media as part of the cost.
It may only be 29.99 but without Win XP support and all the extra hassle of MS It still just might not be worth it for me to get it.

 

[a.gomez]

very nice!... I got the 49.99 preorder promotion at newegg but my cousin can take advantage of this.

I've been using the W7 Enterprise 90 days IT sample on my MBA for the past few weeks and it is rock solid on it, it was a mess with Vista.

now not going to be a big deal when I need to switch over to windows at work

 

[Indyrs2]

I get Windows 7 Ultimate on a physical disk from my university for 20 bucks. This is so stupid becasue most schools have these deals already. Like office for free. Im lucky my school gives me CS4 for free.

 

[KnightWRX]

I got to the Professional upgrade version by clicking the Need to Join Your School's Network Domain link after you get the offer for Windows Home Premium. Then an offer for 7 Professional came up. I'm going to preorder it now.

Do you even need to join your school's domain ? I sure as hell wouldn't, just in case one of the domain admins finds the GPO MMC snap-in and starts deciding what I can and can't run on my personal computer.

 

[Enigmafan420]

Thinking this may make people buy even MORE Macbooks/MBPs because basically for the price of a MB you get two computers.

Even I WOULD BUY Win 7 for bootcamp for $30!

 

[stylewriter]

I got to the Professional upgrade version by clicking the Need to Join Your School's Network Domain link after you get the offer for Windows Home Premium. Then an offer for 7 Professional came up. I'm going to preorder it now.

Odd... but ya that worked.

 

[Eidorian]

Students usually get a discount from their schools.

This is much more widespread with the requirements just being an e-mail from an educational institution.

 

[maconspace]

Wonder if Parallels will do the same?

I'm sure we'll need a new version of Parallels to run Windoze 7. Any word on that?

 

[KnightWRX]

Students usually get a discount from their schools.

This is much more widespread with the requirements just being an e-mail from an educational institution.

And proof of current enrollment. It's not that much broader.

 

[Eidorian]

And proof of current enrollment. It's not that much broader.

Depends on where you go. I have yet to find a school that doesn't have some discount program with Microsoft.

 

[aforty]

I might have to buy this for $30. Gotto check and see if my old student email address still works.